[Friday Links] The back on the horse edition

After a few weeks off I was finally able to catch up with my RSS feeds and put together the sites I have found useful and impacting from this past week.

• What Does it Mean to be Simple?
• Miller64 Just Changed My Mind
• The Science of Games: Why the Game Layer is the (Present and) Future of the Web
• Great Expectations: a Peek into the Mind of the College-Bound Student
• The best Facebook analytics report (that you’re probably not using…)
• social media = being human.
• Device-iveness Webinar Recording Now Available!
• The iPad gets its own VPN with iSimplyConnect
• Foresight.js
• Flat Icons & Icon Fonts
• An Event Apart: What’s Your Problem?
• An Event Apart: Properties of Intuitive Web Pages
• The HTML5 placeholder attribute is not a substitute for the label element
• Twitter sets up shop in Detroit coworking space
• YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Principles of Security” (60 min.)
• Mobile in Higher Ed – New Presentation: The Future-Friendly Campus
• Updated: The Current State of HTML5 Forms
• How I decide where to focus my energy
• How to be honest: An interview with MailChimp UX lead Aarron Walter
• TED: Frank Warren: Half a million secrets – Frank Warren (2012)
• How recruiters look at your resume
• Shorten Long Cables with This DIY Cord-Curling Method [DIY]
• An Invocation for Beginnings: Your Pencils Are Sharp Enough [Video]
• Customer experience and the company life cycle
• Design Is a Job.
• Designing for information
• The Price of Developer Happiness
• Node.js – The objective is absolutely fast I/O
• Design is Resize