An Ars Technica article referencing a survey showcasing that customers would like to be reached on social networking sites: but they don't want to be particularly marketed to – they want to be pleased with customer service.

If you serve them and give them a nice experience, that is all the marketing you need.

Nifty but questionably useful Javascript for doing a parallax-scroll-style effect on moving your mouse over a set of layered images.

A bunch of photos taken at the 2008 Institute, at which I was a presenter and participant. (Not taken by me.)

Open source self-hosted idea based on the ill-fated Muxtape.

Nice series of slides on pushing WordPress to its limits and the types of people who are doing so. Check also the links at the bottom of the post for more of the presentations from WordCamp 2008.

Logos and color palettes from every Olympic games of the modern era. The London 2012 logo is one of the ugliest attempts in the whole lot. It's interesting to see the development of the "branding" of the Games.

I may not have much, but I can assure you that I will do what I can to find the $10 this is going to cost so I can have me some Dukematch. It's like high school all over again.

Every office needs at least one person with this open in a browser tab at all times.

This type of forward-thinking by Harmonix is one of the reasons I'm now a complete Rock Band devotee. The fact that I can move forward the time and money I've invested in songs from the first game makes the second one an automatic purchase for me.

The price is set way too high, but I must admit an insane amount of want for this.