[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Doctor Who to film in Utah
- [Doctor Who Online - with spoilers]
- Nine Quick Tips to Identify Clutter | zen habits
- [via Sidelights]
- The US electrical grid is too crappy to be vulnerable to terrorist attack, say physicists
- [io9 - Annalee Newitz]
- Randal Koene on Activity Logging
- [The Quantified Self]
…Randal Koene shows his Linux project "dil2al" (detailed item lists to activity lists). Every 20 minutes, Randal gets a prompt asking him to log his activities and recommending possible task changes according to his set priorities. He's been using this system since 1999, as a memory assist and a fun way to be productive.
[Wow. Could this be a really effective way to develop desired habits? I'm thinking a reminder every 20mins is too often, but still, I can imagine myself saying, "I don't want to get off-task/topic because it will mess up my dil2al system."
You would, of course, want it to be tightly integrated with your calendar and task manager.
-L]
- What You Need to Change About Your Sales-Copy
- [MashTechWorld.com - mattdriscoll]
- How to Make Your Own Open Source, Dropbox-like Sync and Backup Service
- [Lifehacker - Adam Dachis]
We've outlined a few things you can do when Dropbox goes down, but if you want to take a more extreme approach you can roll your own Dropbox-like syncing and backup service with some open source software…
- Handwriting Practice Could Improve Your Cognitive Abilities
- [Lifehacker - Adam Dachis]
Typing is certainly a lot more efficient, but discarding handwriting entirely might not be such a great idea. Picking up a pencil and a pad of paper to write out your ideas could aid your thought process and learning ability….
- Barcode Generator displays the power of QR codes
- [AndGeeks - Joe]
This app isn’t perfect, but it’s a good way to encourage the expanded use of 2D barcodes. We can store and share so much information within these little black and white boxes. Apps like this help illustrate the potential. You can get it in the Market for free.
- Refresh Pasta and Rice with a Quick Sauté
- [Lifehacker - Jason Fitzpatrick]
It's great to cut down on food waste but many foods don't handle the trip to leftover land very well. Save pasta, rice, and other cooked grains from a clumpy, bland fate by giving them a quick sauté to firm them up…
- Four things about Mr. Snuffleupagus
- [kottke.org]
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- TweetDeck Sheds Beta Tag, Arrives in Android Market
- [Android Guys]
Two months and eleven updates after hitting Android in beta form, TweetDeck has arrived in the Android Market. Thanks to more than 36,000 beta testers, the developers were able to deliver an incredible looking and feature rich client available to all! [Supports Twitter, Facebook,Foursquare and Google Buzz]
- It’s Kind of Sad How Wistful This Makes Me
- [Alas, a blog - Richard Jeffrey Newman]
…a brief review of Grammar-Land: Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shire, which was originally published in the 1880s by M. L. Nesbitt and which The British Library has recently issued in a facsimile edition. It sounds, from the passages Reynolds quotes, like a really fun book. Here, for example, is Nesbitt on the parts of speech:…
What I think my students enjoy is the sense of control that diagramming sentences gives them; it turns grammar into a puzzle, a problem, something like geometry, and so it becomes a skill that they can master, and I think that the narrative approach taken by Nesbitt in Grammarland probably would … have the same effect. After all, if you can understand something through a story, then you have some degree of control over what you have understood because you know where things fit into the narrative.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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