Waileia

A name that wasn’t familiar to me, but an important one nonetheless. If you’ve used a GUI at any point in your life, you’re likely intimately familiar with her work. In addition to many other things, she drew the mouse cursor used in a brand-new computer called the Macintosh. (The same icon, pixel for pixel, somehow magically found its way into Windows with its colors reversed.)

Check out her portfolio here.

Hurricane Jimena and lack of developments have pushed the employee strike at TheBus below the fold. The drivers continue to hold out for a 50 cent raise during the second and third years of the new contract. “To hell with them,” said Matt Webb, who will be taking a bike to work.

Picket lines were sparse today, as many workers attended union Labor Day events.