Let's be honest, we don't really have to dig deep to feel patriotic (or nerdy, geeky, dorky... take your pick), living in Boston and all. So here's the full-length trailer for Captain America. Enjoy.

The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery just added the portrait of former Red Sox great Pedro Martinez to its collection.

The painting was created in 2000 with oil and beeswax on Baltic birch by artist Susan Miller-Havens.

You can listen to NPR's interview with Pedro – where he talks about growing up in the Dominican Republic, "Who's Your Daddy" and the work his foundation does, among other things – after the jump here.

AMP Agency today announced the hiring of Jamie Pappas as Vice President of Social Media. In the role, Pappas will lead the development and execution of strategic social media solutions for clients across a range of digital and social channels.

Prior to joining AMP, Pappas spent five years with EMC Corporation, most recently in the role of Manager of Enterprise Social Media Engagement Strategy, where she led the strategy development, planning, and execution of EMC's social media marketing.

Pappas is also a contributing columnist for Information Week, a founding member of the 2.0 Adoption Council and a member of the Board of Directors for the Social Media Club of Boston.

Read more about Jamie and AMP here.

"OMG," "LOL" and the heart symbol have all just been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

End of the world? Hardly. The English language on the other hand... well, OMG.

Via.

Now try saying that 3 times fast.

GSD&M breaks new work for Framingham-based client Marshalls on Facebook. The "fan exclusive" spot is appropriately titled "Tongue Twister."

That's Jessica St. Clair performing the verbal acrobatics. Why does she look familiar, you ask? Well, you may recognize her from the classic film She's Out of My League. Or not. Actually, you probably know her from Best Week Ever, where she's been a regular. Also, she went to school around here. Yes, we still consider Middlebury, VT as around here.

Anyway, what do you think about debuting work "exclusively" to Facebook fans?

The setup is simple. All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen has a desk in the NPR Music office. He then invites some of today's best artists to come and play at said desk. Sure enough, they come and play. And every intimate Tiny Desk Concert performance is recorded live for all of us to enjoy (and download).

Here are some favorites:

Phoenix performs Lisztomania, Armistice and 1901.

Adele performs Someone Like You, Chasing Pavements and Rolling In The Deep.

More here.

Here's some nice self-promo work from Nail. As part of the Social Media Summit organized by the Providence Business News, Nail was given a full-page ad in (drumroll, please) – the newspaper. As Creative Partner Alec Beckett put it, "There was something delicious about the irony of it."

Copy reads:

You are a freak.

I mean, look at you: reading an ad—in a newspaper no less. Seriously, who does that? You’re even reading this tiny, boring body copy. Nobody reads copy. People hate advertising and go out of their way to avoid it. So clearly there is something seriously wrong with you.

Or maybe, just maybe, some ads are creative enough to earn the attention of people who aren’t freaks. Like you.

Well done, Nail.