It's Monday.  Time for OTM staff picks. Feel free to offer us feedback in the comments section, and enjoy!

Sarah Abdurrahman: I think this is the funniest video I have seen about Google+, that not only explains how the service works, but also demonstrates the trajectory from resistance to acceptance of a new social networking platform.  It is also set to the tune of “Another One Bites the Dust,” so it’s worth a listen for that reason alone.

Bob Garfield: The documentary "Marwencol" is sweet, horrifying, tender, inspiring and sometimes even funny. It's about a harmless drunk who loses memory and other faculties in a vicious barroom beating, and who substantially  rehabilitates himself by creating a 1:6 scale WWII-era Belgian town called Marwencol, populated with retrofitted Barbie dolls, G.I. Joes, etc.  This is a portrait of a lonely man who stays on top of his anger and bitterness by fleeing into his miniature, analog Second Life  and thereby becomes reacquainted with his deepest inner self. Simply lovely.

Brooke Gladstone:  There are books that explain things in a way that stays explained, because the explanation is not just compelling, it’s profound. Recently I read one of  those books: The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic by David Shenk. It includes a history of Alzheimer’s and a brilliant description of its creeping encroachment on personhood, as the afflicted lose (in reverse order) what they had acquired over the course of a lifetime. The Forgetting is not a care-giver’s how-to, nor is it a discussion of treatments strictly current - the book is a few years old. But its eloquent handling of what it means to be human will never go out of date. I really think you should read this.

Alex Goldman: While the first season actually ended in the beginning of July, I highly recommend subscribing to The Pod F. Tompkast. Hosted by comedian and Mr. Show alum Paul F. Tompkins, it’s essentially an hour of listening to an incredibly funny comedian free associate and laugh at his own jokes. I suppose that description might not really sell this podcast, but it’s funny enough that I have listened to most of the episodes more than once.

Chris Neary:  Even though it took place in 1863, a photograph of President Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address does exist. Here it is. Lincoln is the hatless guy just left of center. It’s a remarkable shot - really hammers home that Lincoln was just a man and not a nation-saving superhero. You know what else is remarkable? That, in the 1950s, the game show “I’ve Got a Secret” interviewed someone who was in attendance at Ford’s Theatre when Lincoln was assassinated. At the time of the broadcast Mr. Samuel J. Seymour was 96 and not looking a day younger. He’s was five years old at the time of the assassination.

YouTube’s got a treasure trove of I-can’t-believe-this-person-was-a-guest-on-a-1950s-game-show videos. Here’s Eleanor Roosevelt, Frank Lloyd Wright, and a super playful Ronald Reagan.

Nazanin Rafsanjani: The Greenlight Bookstore. It’s a book store in Brooklyn.  It’s a really great, inviting place that has done a nice job of making a space for itself in our neighborhood.  They have all sorts of author readings and story time for babies and kids.  They also have a blog and a very useful calendar of events. I feel like they’re a nice model for how a book store can work these days.

PJ Vogt: Did you know that if you like to run there are websites that will tell you what percentile you're in, pace-wise, for your age? I didn't know that until this morning, when I found out that my best pace for a 5 kilometer run puts me in the 62nd percentile for 75 year old men. This is not great because I am in my twenties. 

Anyway, I like running and data, even when the data is depressing, which is why my staff pick this week is an app called Runkeeper. It's great. You install it on your smartphone, and as you run, it uses your phone's GPS to track your pace and your route and all sorts of other data. Datum? Whatever. Anyway, Runkeeper syncs the information to a server somewhere, where it's saved and you can access it whenever you want. It's really nice to have access to maps and times for every run you've ever done, ever. It's become a weird habit for me to click through the maps of like, a slow, humid jog from June 2010, reliving it in all its wheezy glory.

Jamie York: There’s not much about the U.S. government that makes my heart swell with pride.  But last week I realized that I’d been to a handful of National Parks and National Forests over 8 days and every last one of them was stunning, singular and protected … for me.  Acadia, Yosemite, Sierra, Mojave and Joshua Tree weren’t brought to me as a courtesy by Coca-Cola or Google.  They were each pristine and otherworldly and protecting them shows a foresight that, in my full-blown cynicism, I’d assumed the U.S. lacked. 

A year or so ago John Dickerson wrote a series on Slate about how people manage risk and he profiled two rock climbers, Eli Simon and Pete Fasoldt.  I climbed with Eli a few weeks ago in Maine and I appreciated all over again what a good job Dickerson did in characterizing them and that experience of putting your life in someone else’s hands.    

And if you’re ever in Bakersfield, CA and it’s °110 and it’s Sunday – I’d urge you to go to the Pyrennes Cafe for the Basque communal lunch and a Picon cocktail.