How is that Mena consistently comes up with impressive site designs again and again? And entirely CSS-based, no less. Speaking of cool CSS designs, Mark Pilgrim points us to cinnamon.nl, another valid, XHTML 1.0 Strict work of art. Eric Meyer directs our attention to clagnut. That’s it, I quit.

Maggie Berry: “As of this morning New Architect magazine is no more.” Bummer. I myself stopped reading NA when it decided to stop including code samples. Before that, NA (then called Web Techniques) reminded me a lot of the mid-80′s Compute! magazine, which is what drew me to it.

Brad discloses that he uses Antares Autotune, a DirectX plug-in for audio editing software, to create the Dirty Vegas-sounding “sudden, jarring computery sounding pitch correction” that all the kids are into these days.

Essential: The Bome Mouse Keyboard. Because Virtual Piano doesn’t run on Win2K, despite that fact that it comes bundled with Cakewalk HS2K, which does. Also essential: MIDI Yoke, a MIDI virtual patch cable driver.

Chris talks about the Wait, something I haven’t experienced in a long time, myself.