Fun site with a new fact + graphic every day. I’m increasingly attracted to sites that are more fun to read outside an RSS reader. Makes enjoying them more intentional — less of a commodity you churn through by clicking the space bar.
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.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about living a life it’s that you need to keep moving, and if there’s another thing it’s that you really should quit your job every once in a while and take on something new, maybe even something that seems crazy and scares the hell out of you.”
— Jonathan Coulton (via meaghano via marco) (via jackcheng)
But the Internet did something else to the news. By putting everyone on a 120MPH highway, it left very little room for value judgment and discretion around what is or isn’t worth talking about.”
— Basement.org: On The Web, More Isn’t Only Less, It’s Actually Nothing
quicksilver + applescript = quick timestamped note taking
I love the Quicksilver “append to…” feature for logging quick notes, but found it tiresome to always (a) manually add the date and (b) find my target file. So I wrote up some quick AppleScript to take care of that for me. Now it’s just “invoke QS, type ‘.’, jot my note, TAB, type ‘LogIt’ and I’m done.” Here’s the AppleScript in case anyone else would find it useful.
Bonus suggestion: the Mac’s Console.app is a great way to actually consume those notes you take. If you set your “open with…” preference on your own personal log file to Console.app, you’ll get to take advantage of the app’s string matching feature to quickly find and filter the file to just the things you’re looking for. Say you log what you have for lunch every day, if you open the file in Console.app, type “lunch” into the search box, the app will only show you those entries. Simple, easy, and it’s already on your mac.
(Submitted by sippey)
Ooh, that Console tip is a juicy one ain’t it? Hot damn!
Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Much Ado About IE6
Uh. Wow. What a way to live.
Map Reading - How to fold a map for use in land navigation with map and compass
I keep losing this.
Cool for maps, yeah, but it also doubles as a way to turn one sheet of printer paper into a 16-page notebook for about a penny.
Pinch to fold in TextMate on Macbook Air/new Pro with MultiClutch.
Gmail: Tips »
Half a dozen of these a new to me. DEFINITELY learn and use the key commands.
People who live in the present often wind up exploiting the present to an extent that it starts removing the possibility of having a future.”
— An interview with Alan Kay (via jackcheng)
Dear Digg,
If you wish to provide your users with a toolbar for added functionality in browsing Digg, give them a real toolbar as a browser plugin.
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— FarukAt.eş
Procrastinating writing performance reviews by finding books on Amazon that I can’t start reading until I finish these performance reviews.”
— Pete Hopkins, to whom I officially say, “Join the club, my friend.”
So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products….”
— mathowie
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