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.

• Matt Thompson talks about The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get.
  
• Seth Godin and Scott Berkun talk about positivity and hating vs. loving.
• Chris Chinn continues his series on collaborative setups for roleplaying games by talking about ensembles and factions.
• Randall Munroe explains a vulnerability in the International Choice of Urinal Protocol.
• And finally, Penelope Trunk talks about How to have more self-discipline, something I could stand to work on.