Weekly Digest: August 10, 2012

Have a fantastic weekend. Temperatures have been steadily climbing throughout the week here on the West Coast. They are supposed to reach over 100 degrees yet again on this, the day my family has scheduled a thirteen mile bike ride downtown to see the newest movie in the Bourne series. I will be bringing lots of water and thinking of cooler places, to be sure.

POV Hacakthon: the love child of the op-ed and the web video.

A friend just turned me on to the One Minute Wonder web series and it’s pretty fantastic.

High on the list of things that made me happy this week? The official announcement that Solange Knowles will be the new face of Madewell.

I may try to beat the heat with a couple of watermelon raspberry sangrias.

Did you know that Tuesday was National Pie Day? (In addition to being National Friendship Day?) I wish I had known.

Keri Russell is going to star in a new spy drama…set in the 80s…as an undercover KGB operative. Yes please.

Some of the books on this list bring back memories. Especially the Sarah Dessen novels. I read a lot of Sarah Dessen in my teenaged years.

Looks like we’ll be able to get to see the first episode of The Mindy Project two weeks before it airs on September 7th. Who’s a happy camper? I’m a happy camper.