The Design Within Reach (DWR) Annual Champagne Chair design competition winners have been announced. Click here to see who took top honors and prizes.

Have 16 minutes, 34 seconds to spare? Watch 200 of OneManSho’s impersonations. He really puts the “You” in YouTube.

Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion, where we first saw the video, said, “Even with all of their recent difficulties, you still gotta love YouTube. Check out the talent you can discover. Somebody sign this dude to a TV contract!”

Or as David Letterman would say, “That’s just nuts.”

So assuming you clicked to watch, did you view only a portion of his vignettes, or the full 200? C’mon, fess up.

From HGTV to Wired magazine, everyone is talking about DNA 11, a Canadian company that turns your DNA into high design.

It’s as easy as taking a cotton swab sample from the inside of your cheek and selecting a color scheme and print size. In just a few weeks you’ll have a one-of-a-kind DNA portrait.

Here’s a business marketing tip I learned while attending a lecture given by David Delk, president of Man In The Mirror, renowned author, speaker, theologian and mathematician.

At one point during his talk, Delk offered a man a copy of one of his books for assisting in a conceptual demonstration. However, instead of simply handing the man the book, he threw it to him, a distance of 20-25 feet.

Rank Amateurs

Walking back to the podium Delk paused, “Incidentally, anyone who tosses a book like this,” he mimicked a Frisbee^® throw, “…rank amateur,” he added, wryly.

Proper Technique

“The proper technique is to toss the book underhanded—spine first, like this,” grabbing a nearby book, he aped an underhanded horseshoe loft—spine pointed toward his target. His witticisms went on, espousing the aerodynamic benefits of his technique over launching a splayed and flapping sharp-cornered projectile into an audience.

Perfect

Delk threw two more books during the event. But his last toss was a true test. The recipient was a large, powerful man seated near the back of the auditorium. With a determined grin on his face the man stood, then took several steps—backward.

Without a word the man assumed the stance of a shortstop prepared to catch anything, baiting Delk to throw the large hardbound book at him. Everyone turned to Delk. A hushed silence swept over the crowd.

And then, he threw it.

The book stayed aloft for what seemed an impossibly long time, cruising over many a head with barely a flap of a page. Right on the numbers. A perfect throw, a perfect catch. The inspired crowd erupted. Clearly, they’d just witnessed a master book toss.

Afterward, I asked him where he learned to throw a book like that.

“Years of practice. Years of practice,” he quipped, moving on to more event-centric questions.

Want to write a novel? Penguin just launched a collaborative wiki site called A Million Penguins, “An experiment in creative writing and community. Anyone can join in. Anyone can write. Anyone can edit,” according to Penguin.

While other publishers struggle to find ways to be more nimble, Penguin’s plunge into social networking is refreshing. Fostering a creative communal repository where wordsmiths and hacks alike strive toward a single purpose shows buzz-worthy ambition. Penguin demonstrates that innovation can still prevail no matter the media channel or industry.

So can the collective rise to Joyce and Nabokov, or will the novel remain the domain of the individual? If only Nietzsche and Rand were here to weigh in on that debate—but who needs them when we have “You.”

Give it a look, a read, or a write here.