Everything a true comic book geek should already have known about Marvel Comics. It’s an interesting list — who would have known that Marvel was close to owning the word ‘zombie’? Pretty crazy. Me? I learned everything I needed to know about Marvel from the old school series one Marvel cards. I had the full sets of series one, series two, and X-Men series one cards. Needless to say, I didn’t have many friends as a kid.

Why people still use Blackberry phones — apparently has something to do with the raised keyboard (vs the touchscreen keyboards of iPhones and most Android phones). Uh, I guess that’s a good thing. Except Blackberry user interface is horrible, it really doesn’t surf the web all that great by today’s standards, it doesn’t have the app development muscle of iPhone or Android, and the hardware is kind of ugly. But yeah, the raised keyboard. Awesome.

Dinner (and interview) with Takeru Kobayashi. Much like many “it” celebrities today, I wasn’t all that interested in Kobayashi, famous for eating hot dogs (?), until he got arrested. I mean, that’s really the only thing that separates him from other Asians with super-high metabolisms, isn’t it?

OpenIDEO crowdsources design ideas for social good. I love everything about this project. “Social innovators.” I like that term.