Absorbing the Tao of Awesome: Lesson 1

Jun 142011
 
 June 14, 2011  Posted by at 20:58 All psychology is amateur Tagged with: , , ,  Comments Off
Absorbing the Tao of Awesome: Lesson 1

OK, back to this.  Johnny B Truant is now on Lesson 3 of The Tao of Awesome (which showed up in my inbox this morning); I am on Lesson 1 (just).  Meanwhile, I have a newly broken rib.  It only hurts when I breathe. So here we go: Johnny will now take my avalanche of to-do and teach me to turn it into a manageable and less-fuck-up-able working system.  The secret is to do less things that don’t matter, and spend more time on things that do matter.  Cheers, Truant. But he promises it’ll work, though easier said than done. 

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Caught in the web again

May 242010
 
 May 24, 2010  Posted by at 06:21 Bring on the dancing girls!, Machiavelli Id goes digital, Machiavelli Id's list of lists, The science of Machiavelli Id Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,  Comments Off

How Many Calories Do You Burn While Tweeting? (Mashable.com) There’s an app for that… 2DGoggles.com: a genius webcomic featuring Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. The SciencePhoto.com collection of sciencey images is vast enough for hours of edifying browsing. Who Calls Me – if you get missed calls or messages from unknown organisations, put in the phone number from your caller ID into the search box to find out who uses that number and what experiences other users have had with them. The Rebel Pin-Up Page publishes a new pin-up picture each day with lovely retro-styled ladies on three different networks: Facebook,

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MI <3 teh hinterweb

May 102010
 
 May 10, 2010  Posted by at 12:10 Machiavelli Id goes digital, Machiavelli Id's list of lists, The science of Machiavelli Id Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,  Comments Off

Stuff I’ve appreciated while flailing around in the net: Chimpanzees Use Sex Tools (Physorg.com) Male chimps attract attention by rustling dry leaves to get lady chimps to check out their erections.  Sound effects are woefully underused by human males in courting, IMO, except for farting, belching, and Eric Clapton (none of which work on me, sorry). Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative  (Wired.com) A critique of FB’s worrying privacy policies and user interface, and a call to action for open source developers. BabycareAdvice.com Articles Useful info for parents/carers.  The advice on this site is relatively sane and

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