I haven't been reading a lot of my Google Reader feeds lately, which is why there hasn't been a link roundup in about two months. Here, then, are the few things that have caught my eye.

• I read The Artist's Way sometime in 2008, and I used to do morning pages every day. 750 Words is a site designed to help you do them online.
• Speaking of routines, I found this collection of famous people's daily rituals interesting, if only for the number of morning people on the list.
• If it's got graphs, it must be scientific. Cake Vs. Pie: A Scientific Approach.
• Penelope Trunk struggles with her to-do list just like I do.
• A few weeks back I posted on Twitter that I wanted to be Scott Berkun when I grow up. (The job title of "freelance thinker" he gave himself in Confessions of a Public Speaker sealed the deal.) As if by magic, he posted about how he makes a living doing what he does.

And there we are. Not much, I know, but you'll have to make do.

Finally, the Things Which Are Awesome edition.

• Anyone who owns and loves their cast-iron cookware (like I do), should bone up on their seasoning technique.
• Still on the cooking front, my friend Tim Newsome wires up an Arduino control for his Alton Brown smoker.
• I just love idea of Cold War spies collecting jokes as intelligence.
• McSweeney's offers Seven Rejected Improv Troupe Scenarios, which are made so much better than the usual bad suggestions we get by the inclusion of additional, unnecessary clauses.
• You've probably seen this already, but I desperately want to perform Two Gentlemen of Lebowski.

Creativity and Innovation edition (and, yes, I have a backlog to work through).

• Merlin Mann reminds us to make the clackity noise as often as possible.
• Practitioners of allegedly unlike disciplines can learn a lot from each other, as these surgeons and F1 pit crews demonstrated.
• Chip and Dan Heath take that idea a little further in A Problem-Solver's Guide to Copycatting.
• Lynn Cherny glosses some of Ed Catmull's ideas about creativity and innovation at Pixar.
• And, Doyce Testerman should have called this "What I've learned from bowling."

And welcome to a special all-video edition of the round-up!

• Matt Mulholland seems to be one of more active (and talented) participants in the YouTube multi-track scene. His a cappella cover of the Ghostbusters theme made me smile.
• The Ambassadors of Harmony, on the other hand, made me miss barbershop singing. There wasn't quite this much choreography when I was doing it, though.
• Looking for a crazy hobby? How about launching anvils into the air?
• Lin-Manuel Miranda raps about Alexander Hamilton. At the White House.
• And finally, the answer to that age-old question, "How do monks who have taken a vow of silence sing Handel's Hallelujah Chorus?"

• Chuck Wendig tells us how he outlines and useful things his college writing professor told him.
• Not only is he right about Chewbacca being awesome, John Scalzi also identifies some critical things for writers and roleplayers to get right about non-spotlight characters.
• Speaking of roleplaying, Rob Donoghue's been knocking it out of the park recently, especially with his posts on mechanizing reincorporation and competence porn.
• Scott Burkun talks about management and horse racing. I think he's right: managers need to be like horse trainers.
• John Baldoni gives advice on managing your boss, but it's useful for pitching to anyone.
• And here's a great collection of product development resources from Dan Rawsthorne (who's teaching the Scrum Product Owner class I'm taking next month) and others.