The Bullet List

Peter King is the best Monday Morning Quarterback

1. New Orleans (6-0). Thirty-six points in the second half on the road. Did you get that? Thirty-six. That's almost as many Viagra/Cialis commercials you see in an average Sunday. When FOX scanned the Miami bench with 40 seconds left, the players looked like 36 trucks had just run them over.

via sportsillustrated.cnn.com

Peter King is the best post-game analyst. He makes great football observations like Nick Hardwick's injury impact for the San Diego Chargers rushing game and writes with wit, sensitivity and intelligence often missing from sports journalism that tends to drift towards the poles of first person, fanatic experience (think Bill Simmons, but less funny) on one end and pseudo-quantitative analysis (see every fantasy football site) on the other.

Interactive Reading: Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook

How come only the seven women can comment in the margins?
Good conversations are messy, non-linear and complicated. The comment area, a chronological scrolling field just isn’t robust enough to follow a conversation among an infinite number of participants. Seven may even be too many. [Note: the forums are open to everyone and we do hope that readers beyond the initial seven will join the fray there both as regards the text and the process. We really want to know what you think works and what doesn’t.

via thegoldennotebook.org

I remember reading about this a few months ago. Noting it on the Bullet List so I can read it in a few weeks.

Imagining Light Rail in Kansas City

via pcj.typepad.com

While I'm a little skeptical of the simple equation of light rail = livable and vibrant city, I love the concrete, attractive, and understandable visual depiction of a future Kansas City. The real world street names, identifying open parking lots that could be interesting buildings and the real life/imagined life street scenes all work for me.

OH: Seth Godin seminar was the most amazing professional experience of my life, http://bit.ly/3u8q54

Visit Seth's blog post about non-profit webinar: http://bit.ly/3u8q54

France to Italy with the See Waites Go! family

10 (plus 1) Ways to Know You're in Italy

1. The GPS system in the French car thinks you have driven off the edge of the planet.

2. Nobody owns a map. No stores sell maps. But if you ask for directions, ten people drop what they're doing and argue over the route you ought to take.

3. You drive as fast as you can, and stay timidly in the righthand lane, but still get passed at frightening speed by every imagineable vehicle. Believing it's another testosterone-adled, espresso-fueled Strada warrior, you turn to discover it's a white-haired septegenarian in a 1978 Fiat Panda.

via www.seewaitesgo.com

Another country, another lesson for the kids about European stereotypes. Great training for the next World Cup.

Client visits are fun

Great to see Ian. Talking social media, TypePad Motion, and vertical social networks...and beer. And Phillies.

This Halloweeen, I'm going to bring the unique Captain energy to it

"Halloween is definitely an important holiday for us," said Diageo Rums' director of marketing Tom Herbst. "We feel like Captain Morgan sort of owns Halloween. No other brand markets as much as we do and sees the return from it...Halloween has always also had an adult component to it and when that adult component reached mainstream, we felt that this was an opportunity to jump on it and bring the unique Captain energy to it."

via www.brandweek.com

Congrats, Tom, on the BrandWeek coverage and the unique appreciation for the Captain.

Wishing I was at the Villa Borghese right now

via www.galleriaborghese.it

Just wished my mom a happy birthday and recommended the Borghese Gallery on her trip to Italy.

Fond memories of wandering through the galleries, in awe of the incredible collection of Bernini sculptures.

When it's rainy and you're annoyed, I recommend Little Stevie Wonder

via www.youtube.com

It's rainy, nasty rainy, this morning in San Francisco. I'm soaking wet from multiple drop-offs and errands this morning. And Oracle World taking over SOMA did not help.

Just as I was reaching my super annoyed point -- think multiple word curses, glares at lazy lane switchers, dashboard punching -- I turned on the radio to KPOO and caught the beginning of Stevie Wonder's Fingertips.

Amazingly, I'm back in a good mood.

Check out the Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England

Check out the Magic Roundabout in Swindon. The video was recorded by the talented amateur videographer Claire Alcock.