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Sigur Rós: Festival (Live), from their upcoming live album, INNI.
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Nick's NCCC Log →
My AmeriCorps NCCC blog, where I will be writing about my experiences with the National Civilian Community Corps for the next ten months.
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Something or other
[dusts off keyboard]
So instead of not writing something here, I’ll acquaint you with the fact that I have a burning aspiration to write more in the future.
Or, to borrow a quote from Jack Kerouac, “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
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My new photo site →
A place for my creative photo uploads, finally.
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Shawn Blanc | Intrvws →
Ian: Do you find that — at least in your personal opinion — you write better when the idea pours out of you or when you take more time to write it in drafts?
So very very true for me as well.Shawn: …In my opinion, my strongest articles are ones which I spend a significant amount of time on (sometimes several weeks) before publishing. Some of those articles started as an idea that just “poured out”, but some of them didn’t.
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Don’t write because you want to say something, write because you have something to say.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Daring Fireball: Title Junk →
The recent hubbub about Delicious got me thinking about bookmarking in general, and brought to mind a long-standing irritation: poorly designed web page titles…
The title is the string of text in the HTML <title> element. This string manifests itself to the user in several ways. It is presented in the title bar of the web browser window on Mac and Windows. It is presented in the tab, if you’re using tabs in your browser. It is presented at the top of the screen in mobile web browsers. It is listed in the “Window” menu of your browser, listing all open browser windows. And, when you choose to bookmark a web page, the title string is used as the default name of the bookmark.
An awful lot of websites use patterns for page titles that are ugly, hard-to-scan, and/or just plain stupid.
Similar problem with permalinks.
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List: Things (and places) to declutter
A useful checklist I threw together in Simplenote.
At home
- Paper (stationery, documents, notes, notepads, etc.)
- Reading material (books, magazines, newspapers, catalogs, etc.)
- Trash
- Random loose items
- Desks
- Tables
- Shelves
- Drawers
- Dressers
- Under beds
- On walls
- On floors
- On surfaces
On the computer (Mac-specific)
- Desktop
- Files, folders
- Applications, preference panes
- Application contents (e.g., stuff in Yojimbo, items in Things, passwords in 1Password)
- Downloads
- Documents
- Photos, videos
- Music, movies
- External hard drives
- USB flash drives
On the web
- Bookmarks
- Browser add-ons/extensions
- RSS subscriptions (e.g., in Google Reader)
- Social networks (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr)
- Web services (e.g., documents in Google Docs, data on Google Health, files on Droplr or CloudApp, etc.)
Other (physical or virtual)
- Address book
- Calendar
