Trunk. What a beautiful, elegant way for people to make a website for stuff to sell wholesale. Sort of like Etsy for wholesalers.

For those who know me I'm an absolute maniac about design. I love good design, and well, can leave the other stuff behind. With so many publishing tools out there in the world people are creating more and more content. Do yourself a favor and learn some design basics. People will take your work more seriously. This article is a great start.

Hateful Ground Zero Hypocrisy

by Peter Beinart

The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart gives a stinging critique of the Anti-Defamation League's stance on building a mosque near Ground Zero.

This, like many of the articles I've seen neglected to mention one constituent group - what about all of the Muslim victims of 9/11? The mosque could certainly serve their needs. What about all of the Muslim families in lower Manhattan? I lived in lower Manhattan for 8 years, and there are churches, mosques, synagogues galore. One more just seems like a service to me.

If you use Google Chrome as your browser, get this tool called Awesome Screenshot. The above video should make it quite clear as to why. Super useful.

via @web20classroom

Check out this amazing dhol player jamming to Rihanna. Perfect.

A funny interpretation of what goes wrong when marketing/use diverge...I'm in the middle of our school's website redesign so this definitely has me thinking!

Do your teachers/staff need to make their own website? Install OpenScholar from Harvard and you're off and running, no HTML knowledge needed. Very slick. And open source.

Grubstreet NY put a white gazpacho recipe up today that looks pretty darn good.

This mug that looks like a lens is absolutely adorable. Must. Have. It.