A quest to find the name and url of a gadget review site that I had tweeted about a few months ago led me to the TwimeMachine web app. TwimeMachine lets you read your old tweets and, while I was looking for the gadget website, I got a chance to take a stroll down memory lane and revisit some of my favorite links and quotes from the past year. I pulled out some of my favorites and have shared them below. While these lists aren't a comprehensive look at or summary of 2011, they do capture the things that I found interesting, thought provoking, and/or cool over the past year.

My Favorite Links from 2011

• No more fish in the sea

• "The correct use of a semicolon is a big red flag for me"

• Canada's new money is pretty amazing, eh?

• How to SEO for the iTunes App Store

• The Tragedy of Suburbia

• Dean Martin makes a burger.

• Vitamin String Quartet – The Suburbs

• Imaginative, provocative video from students on the need for (r)evolution in teaching and learning

• 404

• 10 Unmissable TED Videos For Designers

• How does one become a brogrammer?

• Preschool: The Best Job-Training Program

• Internet High Five

• Shifting the Suburban Paradigm

• The Wirecutter

• Persist - Letters of Note

• German designer David Hanauer creates dizzying carpets from aerial Google Earth images.

• Tufte's Data Analysis for Politics and Policy

• Apple's Three Laws of Developers

• "A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design"

• The Shadow Superpower

• Chicago Type

• Weapons of Mass Creation

• Woody Gutherie's "New Years Rulin's"

• “OK, but there are two rules: 1. You can’t change the recipe. 2. You can’t do anything that anyone else has done before.”

• Restrictions will set you free.

• 4 Star General, 5 Star Grace

• Possibilians vs Agnostics by Dave Eagleman.

• Sir Ken Robinson on passion

• How to write faster

• The Elements of Typography Style Applied to the Web

• Combining Type with Helvetica

My Favorite Quotes from 2011

• "I’m impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype. New York is talk. Chicago is work." -Michael Douglas

• "The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable." -- Kurt Vonnegut

• "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." -- Kurt Vonnegut

• @zachklein: Just told to me: "Schools are the coal-fired power plants of education."

My Favorite Funny Tweets from 2011

• @jonlech "Next year HTML5 will replace native apps" is the new "Next year will be the year of Linux on the desktop".

• @hubs: What doesn't kill you makes you smaller. ~Super Mario

• @dcurtis: The Container Store is like a strip club for people with OCD.

• @larrybraverman: GUYS IF EGYPT CAN TAKE DOWN MUBARAK WE CAN TAKE DOWN TICKETMASTER