Micheal Totten’s blogging at the Freinds of Democracy Iraqi election coverage is not to be missed.
We have more than a dozen local Iraqi correspondents, at least one in each province, filing daily reports. These reports include news, interviews, quotes, photos, whatever they can get in a day. They aren’t professional journalists. They are more or […]
Wired has a fun piece purporting to be a memo from Linus Torvalds to his boss Bill Gates in the year 2008.
Myself, I thought I was making some pretty outrageous demands. I was stunned when you agreed to accept the General Public License mandating that everything you added at the level of the new operating […]
Newworldman reader Johny Canal points us towards an interesting post at kottke.org looking for the maximum Starbucks density as measured by the default 5 mile radius of the Starbucks locator. JC lives in Kitsilano, and while I was not surprised to hear that he scored a 60 store density, I was surprised to find […]
Oddiophile is a site that combines tag searches from the two coolest thing on the net right now, del.icio.us and flickr.
Think of it as your gateway to procrastination, or a quick tangible zeitgeist on any topic.
What happens when the most innovative sports supplement company ever discovers that thier innovative fat-burner has a dramatic positive effect on Fibromyalgia patients?
Myalgistat.com
I’d usually write something like this off, but I have a huge amount of respect for this company.
It strikes me as outside of thier traditional business model. I guess we now know what all those dark fibre purchases were all about.
Here’s something to load onto the palm pilot: the condensed works of great philosphers, and also Marx. (hat tip: American Digest)
A few months ago a friend of mine got together a bunch of us and we read aloud Plato’s symposium. To add reality to posing as a bunch of libidinous Greeks having a dinner […]
These sort of remind me of the lab books we got in University chemistry, but without the carbon.
Deceptively simple, the Cornell System supplies an armature that both organizes notes and encourages review and summarization. I use it for reading, research, and for planning and organizing projects from the simple to the complex.
(hat tip: 43F)
I know I’m a bit late with this one but it certianly does buttress my claims that Arafat was the number one source of problems in Palestine. As surprising as co-operation towards ceasefire and disengagement seem, it would have been unthinkable a year ago.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday deployed about 2,000 security […]
Quick morning article on Starbucks expansion in Europe. There will be growing pains for sure, but it seems the Starbucks in France are already doing not bad.
Parisian Julien Grollemund is living proof that American coffee-to-go chain Starbucks (SBUX ) has a shot at taking hold, even in famously leisure-loving France. Once a week, the […]
Wired has a great article on the new trend in traffic management. The idea is to remove signs, lines and lanes, and let traffic manage itsellf, leading to less accidents, more flow, and more livable cities. Seriously, check the article for yourself (hat tip: Johny Canal)
Monderman and I stand in silence by the […]
Joshua Newman partly blames his procrastination on his amorphous job for which almost any activity can be rationalized as vaguely productive. That struck a chord with me, as does his simple life hack for doing the tasks that are more productive instead of the ones that are less, but maybe more fun or insteresting.
Very […]
Jonathan Chait published a just fantastic article at TNR, exposing the homonymity between Reagan’s laudable “tax reform” act of 1986, and Bush’s ill-defined and potentially harmful proposed “tax reform” of 2006.
ne of the great episodes in the lives of policy wonks everywhere–and, let’s face it, they don’t have many–occurred when Ronald Reagan signed the Tax […]
In implementing my GTD system I have found Merlin Mann’s hipster PDA to be immensely valuable. Aside from jotting down notes to drop into my in basket for processing I’m also stoked on the idea of having custom printed index cards function as business cards, preferably with pertinent notes jotted down below my name.
As […]
Brilliant exposition of Fight Club (hat tip: WoC)
In the film Fight Club, the real name of the protagonist (Ed Norton’s character) is never revealed. Many believe the reason behind this anonymity is to give “Jack” more of an everyman quality. Do not be deceived. “Jack” is really Calvin from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. […]
K5 has a neat article on procrastination with a lot of decent tips on behavior modification. The author also lists GTD as further reading and quotes Csikszentmihalyi, so he’s totally on my team.
He also links to a cool new homepage he has designed for us who are in the sad position of doing work […]
Interesting article that details history of scoial security, while also questioning whether there is a crisis in the system.
Enough is enough! It’s about time.
A couple of posts about better GTDing with text files. One has a good tip on how to get the mail action items into the regular action list. And another with some cool tips for appending sutff into vim and my first exposure to the cli calnedar remind.
GNOME 2.10 screenshots.