A touching moment between father and son. Have a great weekend and may the force be with you.

Dallas Clayton wrote a book for his son about dreaming big, and after he put it online, everyone else loved it too. Then, he started the Awesome World Foundation, a non-profit that donates a copy of the book to schools, hospitals, libraries, camps, and shelters around the world every time somebody buys one. Now, he’s created An Awesome Book of Thanks!, and it seriously puts the biggest cheeser on my face over and over again. It’s got magical healing abilities if you rub it on a wound, it hit 300 home runs last year in the Philippines, and it smells like hope. It’s safe to say Dallas is my new hero, and if he’s not yours after reading 40 pages of awesome right here or watching this hysterical video, we wouldn’t get along. Never underestimate the power of a simple thank you! [via You Are My Fave]

Wendy MacNaughton makes diagrams to help make sense of things that are incomprehensible and overwhelming, too big and complex. In this case, love. And holy shit do we love it. Available today on 20×200.

Hi 2011, here’s our first mixtape of the year. This month’s digital ribbon’s got Bikini, Kanye, Sharon Jones, Bon Iver, TV Girl, Joni Mitchell and more. Laugh, groove, chill and cry – we’ve got songs for all of it.

Remember the Razr? And how everyone thought that it was the coolest thing ever? Well, smartphones may have come in and upstaged lil’ ol’ flip phones, but all of that is going to change. At least, Kristian Ulrich Larsen thinks so. Larsen, a Kolding School of Design student, has designed something extraordinary that pushes the boundaries of what a cell phone can do. I’ll say no more, and let the video below speak for itself. [via Yanko Design]

I’m really glad my friend Doug reminded me about this clip. Shaq rapping, Mark Madsen dancing and a 22 year-old afroed Kobe Bryant with a Super Soaker that’s just a little too cool for school. This is why I love the NBA…and white people dancing horrendously. I can’t believe this was 2001 and not 1988. And just for the record, the original It Takes Two video is pretty splendiferous too.

“Oh hi, I’m a series of stacked books created to form the alphabet, nice to meet you. Yeah, I know, I’m pretty awesome. Wait… what’s that? My W and Z have gone missing? Well, shit happens. Maybe they ran off together and eloped.”