This looks like the perfect writing app for the Ipad. Courtesy Information Architects .

The UN has declared August 19th as World Humanitarian Day. Watch this amazing video about Humanitarian Aid workers around the world.

Create easy image placeholders for your wireframes or design mockups at placehold.it. Looks every useful.

Serve these "Apple" cakes on the Mac Coasters mentioned earlier.

A wonderful site dedicated to the life and work of the Design Visionary and Icon Paul Rand.

Turn that plain old glass coffee table into a giant iPhone :-) More at: iphoneappscoasters.com

Wow! An amazing collection of "Page Under Construction" images. Need I say anything more regarding why we should not do this....

Courtesy Matt over at Capn Design.

Google bans the use of the Windows OS within the company. Now employees can choose between Mac OS (yes please!) or Linux. Read the whole story.

From the NY Times Opinionator Blog, an interesting piece that looks at whether the head od Apple is intent on Tech World domination or just creating the most elegant products. While current behavior points to the former, I still think it's the latter.

A nice piece about the esteemed Khoi Vinh, Design Director for NYTimes.com and his dog Mr. President.

According to this engadget.com piece it looks like Apple will be countering Googles recent Google TV announcement with a significant upgrade to it Apple TV "hobby".

This could definitely get me and a lot of folks to take the plunge.

Apple eclipses Microsoft as the most valuable Technology company - at least according to wall street. Read about it at the NY Times.

The incomparable Veerle Pieters launches version 3.0 of her gorgeous blog.

This is a wonderful piece by Michael Gerson of the Washington Post on the impact the Ipad will have on the written word. I particularly like this quote.

The iPad is one of the most elegant, useful, astoundingly cool objects ever produced by the mind of man. Da Vinci would drool.

This short video of Anil Dash's presentation at Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored event about the cool open source tool that Gina Trapani has developed is really inspiring.

Read more and watch it at Gina's Smarterware site.

With the pace of we development moving so fast this handy site will tell when you can use what technology based on the target browser. See it at caniuse.com.

Courtesy Jeff Croft

VW has introduced a folding electric bike at Auto China 2010. Read about it here.

Excellent Infographic illustrating the magnitude of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Read more at Fast Company

All the geek/nerd holidays you ever wanted to know about. I particularly like the Take you webmaster to lunch day!

See them all here.