R.I.P.

Liz Claiborne has died. She was 78. She brought fashion to the masses through her reasonably priced designs. While she's not Lagerfeld or Chanel, she did change the world of fashion for the positive. Her presence will be missed immensely, although her name will live on.

That's Tragic

Yahoo:

BOULDER, Utah - By Day 2 in the blazing Utah desert, Dave Buschow was in bad shape. Pale, wracked by cramps, his speech slurred, the 29-year-old New Jersey man was desperate for water and hallucinating so badly he mistook a tree for a person.

After going roughly 10 hours without a drink in the 100-degree heat, he finally dropped dead of thirst, face down in the dirt, less than 100 yards from the goal: a cave with a pool of water.

Families are correctly pissed. The Boulder Outdoor Survival School, aka BOSS, said that Buschow waived the school of liability. I don't know who's right and who's wrong, but I'm sad for the family and their loss. I can't even really make a joke about this even though I would like to.