From left to right: a drawing, a bunny, a duck, a McDonald's Madam Alexander Scarecrow, and three board books.

I love this cover art.

I finally listened to Cymbals Eat Guitars after Ethan talked about them somewhat incessantly, and I promise I'll pay closer attention the next time he gives me a music suggestion.

Really good TED talk on motivation and incentives.

Thanks, Brett, for the heads up on this video.

This is an awesome feature. Unfortunately, USAA is only for US Armed Services members and their families. When will a bank that I can use have an app like this?

The video gets pretty funny when it gets to the part with the guys in suits around the table. Just the kind of stuff you're used to seeing on YouTube.

It's elements like this that make me love Mo Willems. They could have gone cheap and made the book half the height that it is, but their decision to keep gobs of whitespace ends up making the book what it is. Check out Leonardo The Terrible Monster on Amazon.

At work we've been splitting our APIs out of our default controllers in order to keep them more cleanly versioned. It's been kind of a pain, to be honest, but I discovered one really positive side effect the other day. Out of 13 controllers that we had before the refactor, only 4 had anything to do with our API.

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Most people disable a checkbox when it's not available to be checked.
Posterous does most people one better by hiding the checkbox when it's
not available.