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2009

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“You don’t stop the journey just because one of the...”
— Some public radio show that I...
Jan 31st
“To be precise, I do love the clarity and brisk style with...”
— Dean Allen. Who has clearly...
Jan 31st
“I am never concerned about finding myself in the minority.”
— Roger Ebert, disclosing the...
Jan 30th
“Maybe, someday, inbox zero, I’ll be more together....”
— Tantek, who’s already...
Jan 30th
“If the universe was found to be finite or infinite, either...”
— Christopher Hitchens (via...
Jan 30th

Michael Bierut’s Notebooks

Design Observer: 26 Years, 85 Notebooks Why a notebook link from the guy who’s over...
Jan 29th
“What we read on the web is shaped almost entirely by what...”
— Paul Carr [via: Big...
Jan 29th

On Thumbs, Stars, and Little Men

Robert Christgau: CG 70s: The Grades I love Christgau’s original (pre-1990) explanation...
Jan 29th
“No one leaves the cinema saying: I loved that character arc....”
— Frank Cottrell Boyce on...
Jan 29th
Gmail Now Available in Offline Mode
Jan 29th
NightShift 1.5
Jan 28th
Warch Watch
Billy Collins - “Forgetfulness” Full text: Forgetfulness by Billy Collins The...
Jan 27th
Warch Watch
Ira Glass on Storytelling #1 Storytelling = Anecdote + Moment of Reflection. Repeat. Often,...
Jan 27th
“Favorite John Updike memory: he wrote to complain when the...”
— Dan Moren, on John Updike, who...
Jan 27th
“A genius is the one most like himself.”
— Steve Lacy, quoting advice...
Jan 27th
Snow Leopard screengrabs leaked. Rumor is, Talking Moose...
Jan 24th
“Afterwards, we came to refer to certain types of...”
— Tales of the Rampant Coyote:...
Jan 24th

Stay Classy, Lifehacker

Merlin Mann Takes a Tour Through His Menu Bar Wow. Nine internal/self links, a via to Mitch,...
Jan 24th
Also | stopdesign
Jan 23rd
Alarm Clock Admin Rights Nice.
Jan 22nd
cabel.name: On Wedding Design If you’re every...
Jan 22nd
“The malicious software connects to a remote server over the...”
— The Mac Security Blog, on ...
Jan 22nd
“…when Monty Python launched their channel in November,...”
— YouTube Blog. It’s...
Jan 22nd
Designing Web Interfaces: 12 Standard Screen Patterns ...
Jan 22nd
Warch Watch
lonelysandwich: “Boca” dir. Matt Wolf It’s incidental that this exquisite little short from a...
Jan 22nd
“The main reason we don’t make meetings more productive is...”
— Reid Hastie. [via Regarding...
Jan 22nd

Duh. SE/30.

The best Mac ever | Editors’ Notes | Macworld I knew what the near-consensus would be...
Jan 21st
“Like any good Ponzi scheme the lead zombies can make a good...”
— Michael Pinto, “Social...
Jan 21st

The $200.00 Cable Pilot

Hulu - It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: History It’s Always Sunny in...
Jan 20th
“A retroscripted script contains a plot outline and leaves...”
— Retroscripting - Wikipedia....
Jan 19th
“So Enderle either (a) believes that McDonald’s was founded...”
— John Gruber. Gold. Although,...
Jan 17th
“The bottom line is this: for someone who loves making things...”
— Gina Trapani, on leaving...
Jan 16th
Warch Watch
Merlin’s First Desktop Tour on Vimeo Sneak peek at a video I’m posting to the triple-dub...
Jan 15th
Sketching out a blog post loop
Jan 14th
Unfinished Business Model by dgray_xplane Dave...
Jan 13th
“The factory factory factory will produce only the tool...”
— Benji Smith, tearing shit up...
Jan 13th
“Forget advice about finding the right atmosphere to coax...”
— Cory Doctorow, with a handful...
Jan 12th
“It perfectly fills the gap between browsing the internet and...”
— Scott Simpson on Instapaper,...
Jan 12th

Merlin’s Macworld Slides

Towards Patterns for Creativity (slides) Here’s my slides from yesterday’s Macworld...
Jan 11th
Listen Listen
Leo Interviews Merlin Mann of 43 Folders Here’s me, being interviewed by Leo, the “Zen...
Jan 9th
Warch Watch
The Beatles - “Paperback Writer” / “Rain”
Jan 7th
“We’re not obsessed with volume…We’re...”
— Jim Weir CEO of a company that...
Jan 5th
Television - Kristen Wiig, Now the Veteran Woman in the ‘SNL’ Cast - NYTimes.com Even among the...
Jan 4th
“So I don’t do ‘inspiration’ or...”
— Anne Enright, on...
Jan 4th
“Time has value. Money does not.”
— Patrick Rhone [via: Michael...
Jan 3rd
Syncing your TextMate Bundles across multiple...
Jan 3rd
“When we evict people from their webpages, fuck all is...”
— Jason Scott, on the sad...
Jan 3rd

“Thunder Road” at Hammersmith Odeon,...

Bruce Springsteen - “Thunder Road” Full Lyrics: Bruce Springsteen lyrics -...
Jan 3rd
Warch Watch
Billy Collins - “The Best Cigarette” Full Text: “The Best Cigarette” by...
Jan 2nd
Inbox Zero by veen Off to Australia for a good long...
Jan 2nd
Maxing out your Triangle — jackcheng.com
Jan 2nd
SimplyScripts - Script Formatting
Jan 2nd
Working Paper: Creativity Models
Jan 2nd
“Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over...”
— Christopher Alexander’s...
Jan 2nd
Warch Watch
Ira Glass on Storytelling #4 This American Life’s Ira Glass, on two rookie mistakes of...
Jan 2nd
Warch Watch
“Skunk Hour” by Robert Lowell Nicely read by Tom O’Bedlam. Lowell is one of my...
Jan 2nd
Synecdoche, New York (trailer)
Jan 2nd
“It is obvious that he has only one subject, the mind, and...”
— Roger Ebert, on Charlie...
Jan 2nd

Ze Frank: Executing > Theoretical...

the show with zefrank (2007-11-06 / “washington, ideas, brain crack”) Ze Frank, on ...
Jan 2nd
Warch Watch
Eric Idle, on John Cleese’s Approach to Writing John Cleese sweated every word — to...
Jan 2nd
“I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have...”
— Bruce Springsteen, interviewed...
Jan 2nd
Psychological Cognitive Benefits of Nature...
Jan 2nd
Warch Watch
Frank O’Hara - “Having a Coke with You” As Brian reminded us a while back, the...
Jan 2nd
That Lovely Glow Effect
Jan 1st
“The celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being...”
— Roger Ebert
Jan 1st

An Idea

What if www.43folders.com continues to be the place for occasional new columns and essays from me?...
Jan 1st