Good Magazine asked me to come up with a big idea. I arrived at teleportation. You can watch the video, and see many other Good ideas, here.

Is ignoring the French Bulldog that lies on her back under my desk, screaming all day.

This gets better the more you watch it. The only thing more nauseating than constantly hearing about how bad the global economy is doing on cable TV is listening to Glenn Beck pretend he knows what he’s talking about. I would have passed out too. Apparently the guy was okay. Via Howfresheats.

is that if stay on it too long, I may one day turn into this guy:

Last year I was lucky enough to work on an amazing digital writing project for Penguin called We Tell Stories. I’ve just heard that last night at the prestigious SXSW Web Awards, We Tell Stories picked up the award for ‘experimentation’ (’cutting-edge and trend-setting destinations that are pushing the envelope and challenging our perceptions of the web’) and, astonishingly, the Best of Show award (’The judges’ favorite finalist website from the competition’) beating competition from Flickr and Hulu amongst others. Woah. Really proud to have been a part of this, and really glad Penguin (and in particular Jeremy Ettinghausen, the brains behind the project) is bravely pushing digital storytelling in new directions. The story I put together (an infographic novel based on Hard Times by Charles Dickens - toughest brief of my life) with ace designer Nicholas Felton is here.

Sir Ken Robinson is an amazing guy. I keep nearly meeting him at conferences we’re both at, but never quite do. His new book The Element, which he talks about here at the RSA in London, sounds fantastic. It’s about diversity of human talent, and three arguments run through it:

1. Finding purpose in your work is essential to knowing who you really are.

2. Growth and development is non-linear. Education should not be a mechanistic process.

3. Human talent isn’t lying on the surface, it’s often buried deep inside.

Like Gladwell’s most recent outing, Robinson looks at success within different environments. Looking forward to cracking this.

Well, almost. This material is called nitinol wire, and according to PSFK it is a type of shape memory alloy that can re-form into a pre-designed shape when exposed to heat.

You probably already saw it somewhere, but I must have watched this 100 times at least. It gets better every time.

According to the BBC, “Pirates have anchored a hijacked Saudi oil tanker off the Somali coast, as the spate of hijackings gathered pace with two more ships seized on Tuesday… The vessel is carrying a cargo of 2m barrels - a quarter of Saudi Arabia’s daily output - worth more than $100m. A cargo ship and a fishing vessel were the latest to join more than 90 vessels attacked by the pirates this year.”

The only thing I can think of is avoiding them with locally manufactured, 3-D printed stuff, and using alternative energy sources (which seem to be getting closer every day) so we don’t need oil tankers. Until that’s possible, it’s all about fighting them.