This week's good stuff

I love the internet and the internet loves me. I read all sorts of things and these are my favorite finds from this week.

Branding 101:

via Consumerist.

This is a "news" video about a black bear roaming behind a neighborhood in Ohio. I used the term "news" very, very lightly when it comes to this video because how many reporters have you seen wearing a rabbit head costume ON THE NEWS? Yeah, that's what I thought. Watch the video. From my friend Susie.

Here's a very cool art installation by the MIT Media Lab. It creates a "data portrait" of your name's online identity. If you are a social butterfly then your name will probably work, if not it's still fun to watch. Here's me:

Wow, this makes my brain hurt. New poll finds that 39 percent of Americans want government to ‘stay out of Medicare.’ via Think Progress.

And, finally it's time for happy hour. A study finds that regular beer drinking helps women have a better bone density than those who don't drink it. Cheers!

Remember?

I'm a graphic designer! I'm always posting photos of my cooking or my adorable dogs, but never really showing you what gets done in my studio and helps buy all that food I cook. So here are some invitations I finished up last week for a new client, the San Diego Junior League. The invites are for a fabulous day at the Del Mar Races. I just spent some time updating my portfolio, so go take a look!

Lola and her baby

Never in a million years did I think that a 50¢ toy from IKEA could outlast any dog toy on earth. We buy these little stuffed animals for Lola every time we cruise through that crazy Swedish madhouse. They don't have a squeaker or any rope or "tuff" rubber. They're just little bite-sized creatures, and Lola loves to carry them around with her. She licks them, and nudges them and sniffs them, they are her babies. Well, that is until about 10 at night when she decides to shove it in Henry's face and they wrestle over it for the next hour. Call this the calm before the storm:

This week's good stuff

I love the internet and the internet loves me. I read all sorts of things and these are my favorite finds from this week.

The accurate pie chart by Laszlo Thoth is absolutely brilliant.

This blog The Impossible Cool. Simple, understated and awesome.

This article about a man who was injured at an anti-health care rally -- he has recently been laid off and has no health insurance -- but now he is taking donations to pay for the medical coverage he received after he was hurt at the rally.

5 things you don't know about IKEA.

Wine bottle tiki torch tutorial. I'm trying to figure out where I can hang these!

Should I or shouldn't I?

During her regularly scheduled bird and bug watching session, Lola took a quick break to evaluate if I was being interesting enough to bother getting up and following me. But she noticed I wasn't holding a side of prime rib.