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http://zenhabits.net/2009/09/8-ways-doing-less-...
Doing less is not about being lazy (though being lazy is a good start) — it’s about focusing on quality rather than quantity. It’s about getting off the hamster wheel of productivity, so that you can create something great rather than just being busy.
This is often how I dish out tech support for family and friends, as do some other techies I know. You've been forewarned!
http://disputefinder.cs.berkeley.edu/
Use this web interface to tell Dispute Finder what snippets to highlight and what evidence to present for alternative viewpoints. You can create a new disputed claim, mark new instances of a claim on the web, and add evidence that supports or opposes a claim.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/901/story/614101....
In 2008, the state produced more than 1.9 million pounds of peppermint oil and nearly 1.8 million pounds of spearmint oil. One pound equals about a pint and packs a punch. About 12,500 sticks of gum can be flavored from a pound of mint oil, or 1,000 tubes of toothpaste, according to the commission.
http://hunternuttall.com/blog/2008/07/the-intro...
Lately I’ve been reading a lot of posts that almost seem to describe introversion as a disease, and which purport to teach you how to be more extraverted to have a better life. It’s time we all got on the same page about what introversion is. Many people think it’s something like this:
http://dpark.vox.com/library/post/five-dimensio...
I was reading an article recently that talked about the reasons that liberals and conservatives can't talk to each other, don't understand another, and refuse to acknowledge one another. It was, for these times anyway, pretty standard political stuff. But one thing that caught my attention is that...
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/901/story/528792....
Greg Greger stands with two of his late wife Margarets favorite homemade kites her rainbow kite with about 400 panels and a box kite. Greger plans to bring them to a kite flying memorial in her honor April 5 at Leslie Groves Park in Richland. See story below.
http://janerz.vox.com/library/post/thoughts-on-...
In our relatively quiet but prone-to-drama burg, the parenting community has recently been up in arms about an incident on facebook. It seems that someone started an “I Hate John Doe” facebook group (I’m using John Doe in place of the student’s real name) about a local middle schooler. Over...
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/03/02/government...
Governments continue to march toward open source. The Dutch government last year committed to use open standards, the French government has deployed Kubuntu desktops to over 1,000 members of parliament and staff, and a few days ago the United Kingdom government announced an Open Source action plan. The plan, entitled ‘Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use‘, calls to ensure that open source solutions be fully and fairly considered for public sector IT projects and emphasises the requirement for sharing and re-use of code to reduce costs and drive common solutions.
http://pearlinparis.vox.com/library/post/cafe-1...
Today, I had to fill about 45 minutes prior to a dentist's appointment; for once, I was a bit early and he was running late, so I went around the corner to a nearby Starbuck's to kill time with a grande drip. See how quickly I have fallen back into "Starbuck speak"? After I got my coffee, doctored...
http://www.sumopaint.com/web/#/home/
On-line image editing tool. Very cool.
http://jaimeling.vox.com/library/post/skewed-ed...
I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I'm a teacher by training. I love imparting knowledge on students, and I truly love helping kids acheive their full potential. That being said, I found myself quite sympathetic to Star's post (as linked) about how she can't in "good conscience let a kid have...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/11/pop...
Walking gawkily into the room, Pip Brown is a mess of crumpled urban-wear and ruffled blonde hair. Held together by a Patti Smith T-shirt, black leather jacket, hooded blue shirt, skinny black jeans and unlaced Doc Martens, Brown - aka Ladyhawke - doesn't exactly look like someone you'd go to for fashion tips. But she's fast becoming a name to drop in the music world, revered as much for her dress sense as for her 80s-referencing, melodic synth-heavy rock.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/01/19/ubuntu-and...
In my other life, I spend a lot of time studying the French Revolution. Unsurprisingly, that pursuit rarely intersects with my interest in Ubuntu. The one connection that I can draw between revolutionary France and the free-software community, however, is their shared obsession with ideological evangelism, or spreading their own supposed freedoms to the rest of the world, whether the rest of the world likes it or not. Indeed, the goal of bringing Linux to every desktop is rarely questioned. But is it really the right strategy?
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/war.html
Novels"The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth; and prevented others from improving their minds in useful knowledge. Parents take care to feed their children with wholesome diet; and yet how unconcerned about the provision for the mind, whether they are furnished with salutary food, or with trash, chaff, or poison?"- Reverend Enos Hitchcock, Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove Family, 1790
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_r...
The First Night family-friendly celebration started with children's activities, and kids gathered for the early fireworks with elaborate balloon hats -- like a foot-tall vase of flowers -- on their heads.
http://www.workswithu.com/2008/10/20/apple-a-bi...
Even before Linux was created, Microsoft has been scorned by members of the free-software community. Its products are decried as defective by design, and its sometimes questionable business practices as an obstacle to technological innovation. That’s old news. What amazes me is Apple’s track record for openness is even worse than Microsoft’s.
http://jaimeling.vox.com/library/post/how-much-...
How Much TV Watching is Acceptable? When is it too much? So back in November, buzban wrote a reflection to Nielsen rating of how much television a household watches on average: 8 hours a day. Now, he seemed quite shocked by this piece of news, and wondered who had time to watch eight hours of...
http://jaimeling.vox.com/library/post/culture-q...
What "old fashioned" cultural behavior do you wish still existed in these modern times? Chivalry. I'd love for men to be polite, open doors, hold chairs out, etc., for women today. Nowadays, I find that men do not treat women with any particular courteous manner unless they have intentions of moving...
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