UIE discusses 8 design mistakes to avoid when creating account sign-in processes.

Then they follow it up with 8 more.

Lovely Charts offers a new way to create wireframes and diagrams online. (Finally, an alternative to Gliffy.)

And The Point offers up a simple way to band together and make change happen.

(Things worth mentioning that need only a single sentence.)

Annie Leonard tells us The Story of Stuff (about 20 minutes long).

The Adaptive Path crew offers up techniques for sketchboarding (especially interesting for me, as my 6-foot by 5-foot magnetic whiteboard will be showing up next week).

And finally, YouTube offers up an aggregate view of all those lofty promises from the campaign trail.