Clips are lower-threshold links, words, images, ideas, and hobby-horses from the guy who does 43 Folders.
These are things that got his attention.
Me? I’m updating my business card to say ‘advanced beginner’ and celebrate that I’m working towards something meaningful and valuable through the process of it all.
— P Morgan Brown. Well put.
transcriptions - Project Hosting on Google Code
Neat little BSD-licensed app for transcribing from audio with timestamps. Try it. You’ll get it immediately.
Coding Horror: 9 Ways Marketing Weasels Will Try to Manipulate You »
“Let’s take a look at the various excerpts presented in that article, and consider how we can avoid falling into the rut of predictably irrational behavior — and defend ourselves from those vicious…
“In a computerized society where individuality is diminished, there are those who find little to no satisfaction in strict conformity to stereotyped living and are searching for their own answers to life’s questions and how best to live, work and find happiness.”
via dtybywl
Embeddable Google Document Viewer »
“Google Docs offers an undocumented feature that lets you embed PDF files and PowerPoint presentations in a web page. The files don’t have to be uploaded to Google Docs, but they need to be available…
Hitchcock - Mobile storyboarding for your iphone
You never know when or where your ideas happen. So why wouldn’t you want to have the ability to capture your ideas when you want to? With Hitchcock you can. It lives on your phone so it’s always there. That is the simple convenience of Hitchcock.
Bought it the second I heard about it. Not much of a screenwriter or film maker myself yet, but a) it’s super-fun to use and learn and b) it’s nice to know it’s there when inspiration first strikes.
Also interesting for comic folks and visual thinkers of all stripes
Official Google Docs Blog: Using Google Docs to manage a website redesign
Switching the process over to Google Docs streamlined the whole thing. We listed all the bugs and errant links in a spreadsheet, color-coded the status of each issue, and added comment columns so everyone could see the nitty gritty of each problem without doing a dozen inbox searches.
Cf., Veen’s 2002 classic: adaptive path » doing a content inventory (or, a mind-numbingly detailed odyssey through your web site)
Online Disinhibition Effect »
The core concept of the online disinhibition effect refers to a loosening (or complete abandonment) of social restrictions and inhibitions that would otherwise be present in normal face-to-face interaction during interactions with others on the Internet. (via @Apothegmatic)
Hotel Toilet-Paper Folding »
Hotel toilet-paper folding is a common practice performed by hotels worldwide as a way of assuring guests that the bathroom has been cleaned, and sometimes, with more elaborate foldings, to impress or delight guests with the management’s creativity and attention to detail. (via @yjon)
I am, as you may know, obsessed with this.
I’d spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then ‘Nowhere Man’ came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay down.”
— John Lennon, 1980
The best way to increase your productivity, hack your life, and be minimalist is to stop reading those sites.
Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.”
— From the essay Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau, who was complaining about gossip and the trivialities of the daily news long before any of us were born. (via jackcheng)
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