Remembering Molly Holzschlag

Molly Holzschlag at Refresh Detroit in 2012

Heartbreaking news to read last night: Molly Holzschlag died at the age of 60 years old.

A pioneer, an inspiration to web designers and developers around the world, and the fairy godmother of the web.

Someone I called friend.

Everyone in the web community owes her so much for her usability and accessibility advocacy.

She’s the force behind what many of us take for granted, on how web browsers work, web standards, and the open web.

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Photo of the Week: Big Bluestem

Tall bronze-colored three-parted seedheads of grass wave in the early morning breeze, light blue sky in the background.

I was delighted on my early morning hike at Lake Erie Metropark when I saw a pair of Marsh wrens chasing each other in the eight-foot tall Big bluestem prairie grass.

Once a lawn of green grass extending almost 1/2 mile to the Wave Pool, the area south of Cherry Island Nature Trail was converted to native prairie grasses a few years ago.

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Wildfire Evacuation from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Operational Land Imager photo from NASA shows plumes of white smoke from large wildfire fires burning around Yellowknife. In the bottom left corner, the darker green area is Great Slave Lake. A deep brown burn scar can be seen in the upper left corner.

Heartbreaking and moving first-person account by climate refugee Michael Nabert of his evacuation from Yellowknife, the capital city of Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada.

Nabert joined thousands of Yellowknife’s residents leaving the city on Highway 3, a two-lane highway, heading south to Alberta.

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