Great article on WordPress themes and where various leaders within WP theme development feel WP is headed into 2009.

E-Reads takes a small look at eBook pricing and comes to the conclusion that pricing needs to undercut print pricing in order for eBooks to take off. Agreed.

Xkcd occasionally hits a home run. This is one of them.

SOLD. $15 might never come out of my wallet this fast ever again.

The free world does *not* need 12 different kinds of orange juice. Just juice. With pulp. (So it's not *just* juice, I guess.)

Find something you like.

What?

I think it's definitely arguable that Apple owes the success of the iPod and iTunes at that time and place to Napster. I think the digital music "revolution" would have happened anyway, but the Napster issue really forced the music industry to come to grips with digital files. I think this is at least partially why the digital publishing market is so ridiculously fragmented.

I like this idea–using basically "thumbs up" or "thumbs down"—in terms of product reviews and would like to see it implemented on more than one site someday. It's too bad that everyone seems to have decided that the five-star scale is the only and/or best option.

Change is good. He's right in that it takes a lot more effort and a whole bunch of dedication to simply defend the status quo. Shake things up a bit.

I would like to have one of these. This is a really awesome idea.

This is important information I was severely lacking. I don't think I'll ever understand it, and it boggles the mind to think how many man-hours have gone into this, but it's still fascinating.

Well, it's exactly what it says it is. This will help you understand how to accomplish the very out-of-date unlocking of characters in SFIV.

Developer information and code samples for the new version of Safari and newer WebKit features.

DVD Jon's latest project: a media management program that aims for as much interoperability as possible. Mac-only at the moment. It also has some social media aspects to it that appear to be very interesting on a quick pass.

Crossway continues to impress by giving away their core material in an ebook format. They are one of the better publishers out there in terms of building their brand and winning over users of the ESV.

The Barna Group releases some results from studying the technology use among churchgoing people, sorted by age. Some useful stats here, but it needs some analysis.

Tim O'Reilly lays it out to explain to Amazon why opening the Kindle is the right move.

Another strong vote for truly and *publicly* engaging your employees and your customers to gather new ideas and new information in order to strengthen a business. The importance of forming a community—of leading a tribe—cannot be underestimated. It is a responsibility.