Today is Opening Day for College Football! (Love it more than my birthday, xmas, and groundhog day combined.)

The Life You Can Save in 3 minutes by Peter Singer

David Mitchell ponders the origins of the word Camelopard

The research is clear: if you want to be a happier person, don’t read a self-help book, just have happier friends.

RSA Animate - 21st century enlightenment

FEED: The Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report 2009 Key Findings

The amount of time, work, and preparation that went into making this, or most any other Ok Go! music video is truly outstanding. Not to mention terribly creative.

My definition of “courage” needs a major overhaul after spending the day w/ wounded amputees from the war at Walter Reed ARMY med center.

SapientNitro Reel

Listening to Bob Marley on a Friday at the office. This should be a U.S. government mandate; maybe then China wouldn’t catch up as fast.

A case where advertising did a bit more than just moved the needle a bit, it changed the perception of a long-standing brand. Damn fine work W+K.

Still wiping away the tear tracks after discovering this video collage just now. Bit emotional for me as I just began a new assignment to help build the awareness, define the brand, and raise money for the No Greater Sacrifice Foundation - a charity organization set up to educate the children of those in the armed services who have been permanently wounded or have fallen in the line of duty. Our team is visiting Walter Reed Army Medical Center next week to go interview and meet some of the heroes and their families who weren’t as fortunate as those in the scenes above. 

Thanks again World Cup 2010 for helping College Football season come that much faster; mid-season baseball can be an excruciating experience

Bought my first ever backpack today. Still think they’re geeky, but sure does make schlepping my sketchbook, iPad, Kindle, MacBook easier!

Just returned from a few days visiting Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, Water Country USA, and the European-themed Busch Gardens.

Between Bears, created by Eran Hilleli at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, is a film beyond its years as a student piece and occupies a distinctive place in the spectrum of contemporary, short subject animation.

The Hurricanes owned the state of Florida in the 80’s, the Seminoles in the 90’s, and the Gators last decade. I wonder who’s next?

When you have Brinner the night before, what are you supposed to eat in the morning?

Cool to see my old boss Stan Lee on ‘Entourage’ this week.

More frog design insights.

Coca-Cola’s “Happiness Machine”…

and the interview of how it came to be: http://bit.ly/bKuZIh

Brilliance from frog design.

From frog design, one of my favorite agencies on planet earth.

Now I know why they shot everything in B&W back in the day —> ‘Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943’ bit.ly/cyX3u7

A lovely fashion video in HD.

Just  sick, sick catch.

Just did a presentation entirely on the iPad; it convinced the client to not only move forward with our proposal, but to buy one as well!

I’d probably think that today (100 w/ a heat index of 109 in Washington) was pretty hot, if I didn’t spend a year living in Albuquerque, NM.

“I am not Mr. Lebowski. You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude, so that’s what you call me, you know, uh, that or, uh, His Dudeness or Duder or, uh, El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.“

Finding Lady: The Art of Storyboarding

Instead of paying $69.99 for an Apple wireless keyboard, I paid $4.99 and turned my iPad&iPhone into keyboard, trackpad, & media controller!

This will be a lot more amusing if you already have the Elmo iPhone app (like I do for my 2-year old daughter.) Either way, it’s a great Proof-of-Concept technique!

HOW IN THE WORLD IS THIS FREE?? FlipBoard, for iPad—> http://flipboard.com (I’m betting it will replace my overused Pulse app by weeks end)

Hands down the absolute coolest business card ever made: a model-kit card that transforms into plane, car, or boat. http://bit.ly/azwnRZ

I’m kinda wishing that body art was still taboo in our society, ‘cause I’m seeing some pretty bad choices during this hot East Coast Summer.

Job Hunting 2.0

Designing The User Experience Curve

By Andy Budd 

The best Friday time waster I’ve seen today: Jewel puts on disguise & does undercover karaoke: http://bit.ly/a2WkI9

Good audio interview of Howard Schultz on Starbucks’ turnaround http://s.hbr.org/aODHWb - Big fan since reading ‘Pour your heart into it.’

So who came up with an exclamation mark in their brand name first - Yahoo! or Al B. Sure! ?

Kobe, Shaq, Karl Malone, and Gary Payton (w/ Rick Fox at SF) - be wary Heat, no NBA Championship is guaranteed: http://ping.fm/YVUnj

My predicted World Cup final to play out: Spain vs The Netherlands! I actually bet with my heart, as these are my 3rd & 4th favorite squads.

Decided to start the 4th of July weekend off early, so we drove to Ocean City, MD - the poor man’s Miami Beach! (Actually quite nice here.)

Karl Gude presenting Visual Information @ TEDxLansing.

…still one of my favorite ad spots.

From two of my favorite [business] storytellers:

• Framework by Cliff Atkinson
• Visual Thinking by Xplane