March 01, 2001
Dear NIKE iD, Thank


Dear NIKE iD,

Thank you for the time and energy you have spent on my request.
I have decided to order the shoes with a different iD, but I would like to make one small request.
Could you please send me a color snapshot of the ten-year-old Vietnamese girl who makes my shoes? 

Thanks,

Jonah Peretti


...from a series of e-mails reprinted in In These Times regarding Nike iD's rejection of the word 'sweatshop' as a personalization for Jonah's shoes.  Read the whole series.

Nom: Roxane i think she

Nom: Roxane i think she is beautiful,
(and I think the bike is cool too). 


ahh, summer glow...

i quote me. I discovered

i quote me.

I discovered that while waiting for dawn to come, despair can be quite severe, and the relief which came with the first light and the first birdsongs was stunningly transformative.  My life's perspective traversed instantly the vast gulf between despair and hope, all for the arrival of a little light.  Suddenly I was...

see the rest here.