Congratulations Typekit

Please Don’t Call Them Avatars… Unless They Are Avatars – Word.

Can I Use – Great resource. Thanks Judy!

Learning 2011 Conference Backchannel – David Kelly does a great job with these collections

Omnifocus and Siri

Human Centered Design Toolkit – For years, businesses have used human-centered design to develop innovative solutions. Why not apply the same approach to overcome challenges in the nonprofit world? (via Jason)

Designing the Invisible

How To Think And Communicate Visually

Team Treehouse – What do you want to learn today?

Now Entering the Decade of Learning – Great link from Chad

Kurt Hanks – Paradigm mapping. Awesomness (via The Beard)

Why Good Writers Avoid Adverbs and Adjectives “You need not be as sparse as Hemingway but in that general direction you ought sway.” (via Jason)

Apples Does it Again – AssistiveTouch

Plagiarism Explained by Common Craft

The Inklings and Where Good Ideas Come From

Michael Winslow gets the Led out – You’ll remember him from Police Academy. Incredible.

Back to School Special from American Drink – These are great. Share with the moms you know.

Procrastination – Most excellent. Book ordered.

Top 10 Misused English Words – Please stop using these the wrong way. (via Judy)

Your idea sucks, now go and do it anyway (via MBN)

Unitasking — absolutely gorgeous site, as well

Glider Pro coming to iOS – SWEET! (and, yes, I’ve spent too much time playing the original this week)

Instagram 2.0 – Massive update. Instant filters. Instant tilt-shift. High-res photos.

iTunes Skip Feature – Exactly the solution I was looking for. I’m creating a smart list for these so I can remove them from my library entirely. (via DF)

“While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes. I don’t. I find it Patriotic.”

The Yoda Pie Chart – There is no try.

Hip-Checked — “For the past year HP has looked like a dog being tempted on opposite sides of the room by two treats. Constantly rushing back and forth so as to not lose either of the treats, but never actually getting either of the treats.”

Welcome to Macintosh

Charge money for your work. Don’t be a jerk to people. Repeat. (via Ben Brooks)

Memorable Speakers Blend Stories, A Connection to the Audience, and Takeaways

The Dude – I love Devour

Thanks for Teaching Us – So cool (via Michelle)

Driskill WordPress Child Theme – Beautiful and Responsive

The 10-Minute Instructional Design Degree

“Also – instructional design and visual design are different things. Visual design is just as important (and it isn’t about making things “pretty”), and it needs to be done before the development phase begins.” – Jane Bozarth

Overcoming Objections to eLearning

“Adopting eLearning is a cultural change as well as a technological one, and all of the changes required to make it accepted and expected can take time.” – Judy Unrein

When I Think of the Future of Online Learning – great insight from Ellen Wagner

Project Tin Can Moving Right Along – great news

30 Places to Find Creative Commons Content – goes well with this video on Copyright

eLearning Storyboards – some wonderful resources

Bluelounge Mini Dock adapter – clever. (via Minimal Mac)

The Birdy – great way to track spending. Simply respond to one email each day. I use Evernote to do the same thing – but I do it live – as soon as I spend it, I email my Evernote account like this: 2011 Taxes – Expense – Software – App Store – $9.99 – but that doesn’t give me pretty charts.

The Birdy would go great with SassyCents, a new “how to be smart with your money” blog from Tammy Thorn.

Viva La Vida, Lego Edition

1.8 Zettabytes – wow.

Meetings are death, death to meetings – YES!

Creating Losing Designs – great ideas on using low stakes losing to motivate learners.

“The Smart Worker Needs Job Aids Rather than Courses” – this is a great series. Read ‘em all.

Learning is Social. Training is Irrelevent? – Yes.

The Death of the Traditional Enterprise

Review: DesignJot – the first iPad app for learning development? Great review.

Spanning Sync’s 1 Year Anniversary – congratulations, guys! Great product.

Book Review: ‘Game Frame’ by Aaron Dignan

Why Creatives Are Always Confused (via @mrch0mp3rs)

Hackety-Hack – learn Ruby while you’re writing it. Immersive learning. Awesome.

Caring For Your Introvert (via Jane)

Oh, and no copy/paste on launch. To quote their own commercial, “really?”

getURL works in all browsers, but uses a more complicated communication system when sending data to your Captivate file from the LMS. It also makes a lot of clicking sounds.

Lucky Day – one of the best shorts I’ve seen. Ever.

Nerf Infrared Auto-Cannon – Brilliant.

Baylor Rugby Alumni Festival – Work (and life) is keeping me away, but should be another awesome event.

Just take an iPhone 4 – my thoughts exactly. So nice, now that I have HD video capability and a better camera in my pocket. I still use my DSLR for sporting events and some other shots, but I love the iPhone because it’s an all-in-one, for almost everyone and everything.

MiFi of Your Dreams – not exactly, but it’s close. I could do without the steep $150 entry price. However, $40 a month for an unlimited “wherever I am” hotspot? Not too shabby.

One of my favorites:

(love the “e-mail the douchebag who used it” feature)

Yup. Add one to your camping gear as well.
Once you get your cast iron skillet, try this recipe first (after you season it, of course): Cast Iron Mac & Cheese.

What’s New in MarsEdit 3

This is one of the few pieces of software I own where I don’t even look at what’s new, I just pay for the upgrade because I know it’s going to be worth it. Mars Edit does one thing, and does it extremely well. Simple, effective.

Support for WordPress Pages

MarsEdit now lets you download, edit, and create Page entries on WordPress blogs. Now you can manage your blog and your permanent site pages from the same comfortable interface.

Support for Custom Fields

For WordPress and other blogs that implement the WordPress API, you can configure custom fields in MarsEdit to customize the post editing interface.

Oh, pair it with Inconsolata or Anonymous Pro for best results…

The All-Bacon Burger – of all bacon odysseys, this might be the one I try…

In-Program Quicksilver/LaunchBar functionality – Simple, useful hack. (via DF)

This is the iPhone 3G with iOS 4.0 – Pretty much what happened to mine as well. (via DF)

I’m Comic Sans, Asshole – Brilliant and funny. (via Gruber)

‘First to Do It’ vs. ‘First to Do It Right’ – solid explanation of the difference between adding features for the sake of having features, and adding features that let you do something your customer/user wants and/or needs to do. Same could be said for a lot of websites.

World Cup Preview – Short Edition – Short, funny and fairly accurate summaries of each of the 32 teams.

“While compiling this preview, I forgot about Greece and had to look them up when I realized I was one country short.”

The Lame iPad Camera Connection Kit – I’m still shocked there’s not an iPhoto Lite for the iPad.

More Adobe accessibility screw-ups – why? Seems I ask that a lot about Adobe these days.

The web isn’t rebuilding communities. We are.

I’m presenting at mLearnCon – what do you want to know about Mobile OS?

Who said the iPad couldn’t print? – Ha! (via HybridKris)

Android Running on the iPhone – oooh…I want to do this! (via Rich)

A different take on mobile learning (via Tom)

The Tweet Notebook – Overkill? Maybe. (via Aaron)

Dear Apple and Adobe – nicely said.

I Got a Big Ass Pocket – hilarious! (via The Duty – a new fav)

Padnotes – iPad annotation and drawing – seems clunky to me.

Tron Legacy – can’t wait. Also need to watch the original again.

Innovations in e-Learning – really wish I was going to this…we’ll see.

The Future of the LMS – add your thoughts and link it back here so I can read it.

JuneCloud – creators of Delivery Status – love these guys.

Faking It – Very interesting read – and a very real situation.

SCORM Cloud gets easier to play with (via)

Interaction Colour Associations – Good stuff in the comments also.

Why You Can Never Work ‘Full Time’

The Importance of Teaching Your Clients and Being the Boss

Work/Life Balance

Modern Browsers for Modern Applications – Google’s take (and mine)

The 3rd and the 7th, a short film by Alex Roman – Absolutely amazing. (via Gruber)

Computers are Dumb – Make Smarter Learning – Good article. I am increasingly frustrated with lame interactions in e-Learning. You’d think that we’d have something better by now.

This quote is the key:

“Don’t just have your learners interact with the computer — have them interact with other people.”

Validation, collaboration, accountability, etc. are better defined, delivered and received by humans. Use the computer to deliver some content – use humans to deliver the rest.

Dreaming of an Apple Tablet – I’m in the same boat. 95% of the time, my Macbook Pro is a desktop. But I need it to be portable that other 5%, and I want all my music, files, photos, etc. when I’m on the go. Not sure where I’m headed with my setup.

An Amalgamation of Predictions and Questions Regarding the Apple Tablet – Amalgamation, indeed. Thorough and thoughtful.

Viewing PDFs in a Browser on a Mac – Good stuff from Philip – I’m tired of Adobe.

Flickr vs. SmugMug – nice review from 2008 – need to post my photography setup and storage and reasoning. Also need to take more photos!

The Square – Revolutionizing mobile transactions? Could be interesting.

Three things about Marco Arment – Great stuff about the creator of Instapaper, a huge part of how I read the internet.

Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free. – no words can describe how awesome this is (via Gruber)

Disable Invisible Flash in ClickToFlash – Good advice – why? Here’s why. (via Gruber)

Hubble Telescope Snaps Deepest-Ever Image of the Universe – Amazing how small we are.

The Unbelievable World of Snowflakes – Amazing macro photography and back story. Show your kids.

Dreaming of an Apple Tablet – Excellent stuff – awesome graphics. I’d buy 2 also. (via DF)

250,000 on Facebook Find Owner of Lost Camera – one of the great things about social media is shown here, when it’s used to help people. (via Palko)

Ten Things You Need to Stop Tweeting About – (via Philip)

Laptop Steering Wheel Desk – Read the reviews…great fun (via Aaron)

10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9 – Good stuff. Improving as a CMS.

The Simplest & Most Efficient iPhone Stand – brilliant (via MinimalMac)

Microsoft Store Breaks Out in Song – First, that is pathetic retail store behavior. Two, what a horrendous song. (via DF)

Camino 2 – Try it.

Dan Cederholm (SimpleBits) Goes WP – Wow. Another big player on WordPress. Love it!

20 Social Media Comics (via Jeff)

Social Media is the Means to Achieve Workplace Collaboration – (via Ethan)

Gruber on Microsoft, McFarlane and Plagiarism – Be sure to click through to the video comparison of The Simpsons/Family Guy. I had no idea it was that blatant.

THE Vin Diagram – Bravo.

7 Creative Ways to Introduce Social Media to Your Team – Good tips, and very good links to other resources and books to use in your battle to get Social Media accepted in our workplace, something I’m involved in right now (via Jeff)

The Bacon Bread Patty Melt – Incredible (via Aaron)

WordPress Users – Use a Favicon – Good advice (via Alex)

The Real Cost of Windows 7 – (via Eric)

ColorJive – awesome.

Levelator – If you podcast, or develop elearning, a MUST!

25 reasons why your company is boring

Set My Browser Size – excellent resource for usability testing, screencasts, tutorials, etc.

Oldest human ancestor discovered – intriguing

Give a little (via Brian)

Social media venn diagram (via Moehlert)

The Social Media Guru (NSFW) – Hilarious, and so true! (via Chris)

A big-assed post about Fireworks – a love hate relationship I have as well (via DF)

People of Walmart – for those of you living under a rock that haven’t seen this yet.

Cat shower – not sure why cat videos are so addictive and funny, but they are.

The great irony about Web 2.0 – never thought about it this way, but I have experienced it this way.

Did you know? 4.0

Twitter: A Trust Ladder – Good insight from Aaron Silvers.

Curing Your Restlesness – Another gem from AoM

The Next Generation Bends Over – Insight on the Mint/Intuit deal.

Technology We Should Be Teaching in College – Good stuff. (via Aaron)

Hierarchy of Digital Distractions – Just about perfect.

Interview with Rob Janoff, Designer of the Apple Logo

Small Batch Business – Duce Enterprises, exactly.

Leopard 10.6.1 released – Gruber always has good one-liners.

Notational Velocity 2.0 Beta – The next step in my attempts to simplify (via DF)

The new morning routine. So true.

The Missing Windows Disc – nope, not that simple…

Driver Side Auto Management Site – Nice, clean interface and a great resource for car owners

Working through video-editing backlog – I so need to do this.

ALA – Redesigning your own site: “Designing for your worst client: yourself” – Good read

Learning Objectives and Salsa Dancing

How to pick a barber