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10% off a new iPod When you recycle an old one at an Apple Store near you. Or “what I learned from A Greener Apple.” 

Adobe Question Mark CS 3 Courtesy of fat fingers and the delete/help key. Why go to all the trouble of a custom icon yet allow it to be so glaringly inconsistent with the rest of the suite’s icons? Wasn’t that the whole point of the rebranding (not to mention new versions)? Consistency? 

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Penny Arcade Expo Keynote by Wil Wheaton. The Minibosses are headlining. Oh, and it’s only $50 for a 3-day pass. Just another excuse to visit Seattle. 

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“i made this with a sharpie” Now that’s a Flickr tag. 

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The Memory Card “…is an opportunity to dissect and honor some of the most amazing moments in gaming — be it artistic, innovative, or just plain memorable.” Leaning heavily on the SNES for the first two articles but that’s fine with me. 

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2007 Web 2.0 Awards Mint picks up an honorable mention this year (knocked out of the top 3 Web Development and Design category by some solid development frameworks). Conspiracy theorists disclaimer: sorry, no relation to SEOmoz’s Matt Inman. 

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Fourteen Years of Failure Khoi Vinh’s killer commencement address. 

Apple’s new invisible interface “Although touchscreens are apparently the wave of the future, there’s one design flaw no one’s yet addressed: when your finger’s on the screen, it’s obscuring the very elements you’re supposed to be interacting with.” 

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Color Oracle “…takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see.” Via cm. 

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Tufte + Mint A new style for Mint 2 from Rob Goodlatte that looks just as you would expect it to look. Also available in the Peppermill. 

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Button, button, who’s got the button? Roger, Kevin and Alex do. Each button/link styling technique has its faults but that’s our job as designers, to consider our options and pick the lesser evil based on our clients’ or audience’s needs. 

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reCAPTCHA “Digitizing books one word at a time.” What a great idea, if we have to type in random words we might as well try to be productive about it. 

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Typogrify Includes Widon’t (among other things like SmartyPants) for Django. Via Joshua via email. 

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Widon’t Helper for Rails  

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