The news this week swirled around the iPad2 release and the increasing use of tablets and mobile. Tablets are a breed of their own, not mobile, not desktop, but a "mobile" desktop version of your site. Let's not be rude and default tablet users to the slimed down mobile version of your site. And at the same time let's make sure your site functions without the use of a mouse, because that can be frustrating. These devices have introduced a whole new level of design, development and UX.

In the mean time let's enjoy these links of the week.

• How the iPad (and Tablets) Are Driving a New Age of Web Design | Webdesigntuts+ (opens new window)
• The “American Gothic” Models (opens new window)
• Introducing Student Affairs Live with Eric Stoller (opens new window)
• Scaling WordPress for high traffic sites video (opens new window)
• Surrealist Postcards From Google Earth (opens new window)
• A List Apart: Articles: A Checklist for Content Work (opens new window)
• More reasons to be nice: It's less work for everyone (opens new window)
• Higher Ed Lessons from Charlie Sheen
• Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience (opens new window)
• Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make “TechShops”? (opens new window)
• State higher-ed funding at record low (opens new window)
• Infographic Wednesday: Average Student Budget
• The Future Of Public Libraries (opens new window)
• Press Release or Press Delete? (opens new window)
• Work Less (opens new window)
• Re-watch our Live Q&A Video (opens new window)
• Unit Interactive’s 4½-Day Workweek (opens new window)
• HOWTO: Native iPhone/iPad apps in JavaScript (opens new window)
• Script Junkie | Improving User Experience: Preload Images (opens new window)
• Why Everyone Is Talking About Node (opens new window)
• Catching fatal errors in PHP | Barely Sufficient (opens new window)
• How to Create Bookmarklets | Nettuts+ (opens new window)
• Call To Action Buttons and the Psychology of Color | UX Booth (opens new window)
• Creating and Manipulating PDFs with PHP and FPDF (opens new window)
• Your SXSW agenda (or any conference, for that matter) (opens new window)
• The IE6 countdown (opens new window)
• Accessible YouTube & HTML5 Video (opens new window)
• Free ebook: ‘New Trends in CRM’ (opens new window)
• Facebook Updates Insights with Real-Time Analytics (opens new window)
• Actions Don't Lie (opens new window)
• 3 Marketing Lessons from Seth Godin’s New Book "Poke the Box" (opens new window)
• Exclusive interview with Seth Godin (opens new window)
• How Recent Changes to Twitter's Terms of Service Might Hurt Academic Research (opens new window)