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After watching my shortie play with her shiny new SpongeBob LEGO set on Christmas morning, it seems like LEGO-related imagery is popping up all over the place in my little Web world.  And this makes me happy, but that shouldn’t surprise you. The Guardian has an interesting collection of 2011 news headlines in LEGO (see [...]

I love these fun photos from photographer Allen Sailer on ‘The War Against Christmas’ – a look at exploding Christmas ornaments filled with random substances. A nice break from your typical red and green ornamentation, right?  If only putting away Christmas decorations were half as much fun as these!

The Interwebs is chalk full of amazing content, stories and knowledge – here’s a sampling of this week’s readable brain candy from my personal bookmarks. The (In)Efficiency of Local Food | The Etsy Blog - Not entirely sure how I feel about this post, but it’s an interesting look at the implications of the locavore movement. [...]

Massive thanks to the 20SB Summit folks and BrandAboutTown for organizing a really cool blogger-focused conference event earlier this year.  I spoke on a fun panel, but the highlight of the trip was hearing Scott Belsky (of the Behance Network) present. He’s an absolutely fantastic speaker and I think we all got a brain full [...]

The last couple of months have been an exploration of and in awesomeness.  What it is, how to obtain it, how to maintain it, how to maximize it.  I have the Awesomeness Fest to thank for that.  Four days of growing, dancing, laughing and camaraderie in a tropical island paradise.  I’m still glowing from it. [...]

My grandfather, George Derr, was at Pearl Harbor 70 years ago today – a handsome young man going about his daily routine until the sunny Hawaiian skies came crashing down. He made it out alive, but was the only person on his deck to do so.  The question of ‘why them and not me?’ probably [...]

From the FinerMinds blog – watch and get goose bumps from this gorgeous video of two Irish girls in a canoe caught in a dance of a thousand starlings.  Gorgeous.

I’m a book nerd (and probably a librarian in a past life), so am frequently tickled by literary content on the Web.  A few things that have caught my fancy this week: Readitfor.me does, in fact, do just that (and I love it) Let me preface this by saying that I was that judgmental girl in high school [...]

It’s just me, saying hello.  I think you’re pretty great and hope you have a super fantastical weekend. We’re celebrating Adam’s birthday (The Big 3-0) this weekend, which means we’ll be eating vegan avocado chocolate cake and chocolate peanut butter pie: Then opening up gifts and watching celebratory kung fu movies. How about you?  Muppet’s [...]

I love this FastCompany video on A/Me testing – that is, making small incremental changes to the way you work and play to increase your awesomeness levels.  Build on your strengths and constantly tweaks what works, this is how to become truly great. Just as a Web marketer re-vamps tiny pieces of website design and [...]