Design With Intent Toolkit: 101 Patterns for Influencing Behaviour Through Design. The title of the link is pretty self-explanatory, but let me just say this has changed my life to hopefully change other people’s. Or not.

The Huffington Post named Toronto the “new capital of cool”. Now, being a Vancouverite, I’ve never really had the desire to go to Toronto, but now I’m intrigued. I always just assumed Toronto was a ghetto Vancouver?

New study finds comic books help improve literacy among boys. I grew up reading comic books and it was always a mystery to me how any parent would find fault in their child reading a comic book. I mean, clearly none of the comic book critics had read any of Chris Claremont’s gazillion issues of X-Men. Who knew people in spandex would be using fancy four syllable words so regularly?!

Avatar: The Last Airbender sequel coming soon – and no, I don’t mean the disaster that was the live-action movie. Nickelodeon has released details on the follow-up to its Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series and it looks pretty sweet. Elemental bending and steampunk in one show can only mean good things.

Thinner and lighter Kindle priced at $139 is coming soon, direct to my grubby little hands. I’ve always wanted a Kindle but couldn’t justify paying $260 for a black and white reader. Well, Amazon’s just remedied that by making its latest iteration of the Kindle not only lighter but also cheaper. At this price point, there’s no longer an excuse not to buy one.