If you know me, you might have heard about my addiction to domain names. If I see one I want, I’ll buy it. I have a lot of them, and most of them are unused because I’d like to focus most of my time to Theme Lab and not developing new sites. [...]

By Tim Mercer
Everybody knows you’re not supposed to play with your food but that doesn’t stop these artists from creating some rather extraordinary edible art. Far from the mountains you used to make with your mashed potatoes, these masterpieces could go on display in a museum. Mixing together a little food and a [...]

I answered the following question this evening on the FAQ blog for the course I’m teaching this semester, “Technology 4 Teachers” at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Question:
I don't understand the difference between Creative Commons and Flickr.  To me they look like they are interconnected with each other.
Answer:
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization which was created [...]

Cross-posted to Learning Signs.
Sarah [my 9 year old 4th grader] created the following digital story today before school using VoiceThread about the book, “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” She role-played Annabeth Chase in a video we shot last Wednesday in St Louis using my iPhone. This is the first VoiceThread we’ve created [...]

Today we are glad to release a beautiful, simple and clean portfolio WordPress theme — SimpleFolio, designed by Omar E. Corrales and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items [...]

By Tim Mercer
Ice sculpture is a beautiful yet temporary art form. Countless hours went into many of these amazing creations only to have them melt away. Luckily, they’re preserved through photography for us to marvel at for ever. In this post we present 40 Insane Ice Sculptures that will certainly impress you.

Insane Ice Sculptures
Rhonda [...]

Hi,
This plugin gives more control over widgets. It is used to set dynamicly place widgets on WordPress pages by excluding or including rules for the homepage, single posts, pages, categories and archives.
* Default widget display setting is supported for:

Front page
Single post pages
Pages
Category pages
Archive pages

* Exceptions can be created for:

Single post pages [...]

It’s always hard to shop for my mom. This year for her birthday, we created a custom photo book of our summer family reunion / vacation using iPhoto. This entire process took about three hours, using images from her Mobile Me Gallery and my own Flickr set of the trip. It takes awhile to create [...]

As a co-convener for the K-12 Online Conference, the following is a beautiful sight.

Presenters in our 2009 conference are following a new set of procedures to DIRECTLY upload their files to both DotSub and Blip.tv, where their videos are converted / transcoded into Flash versions (on both sites) and into m4v (iPod compatible video) and [...]

FiveSecondTest is one of those tools that was created to do one thing, and one thing well, and in this case that is testing websites. Let’s say you are a designer and want to roll-out a new design for your blog, but don’t know where your focus currently lies. After all, you might think differently [...]