Monday, January 7, 2008

Jan 7 9:32 am
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“
  1. Collect everything in one place.
  2. Choose the essential.
  3. Eliminate the rest.
  4. Organize the remaining stuff neatly and nicely.
”

The Four Laws of Simplicity, and How to Apply Them to Life | Zen Habits

Good advice.

douglangille Via * this space intentionally not left blank
Jan 7 10:22 am
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from squashed: Carolyn’s Tumblelog has switched formats. She’s now writing about children’s books. She’s found that the picture/quote/text posts work great for this. This picture is from James Marshall’s Goldilocks. In this book, Goldilocks is sort of a snot.It’s also making me feel like I missed some great books when I was growing up. It also reminds me that if you think you could write and illustrate children’s books, you’re probably wrong. The competition is just too huge. As a relatively new parent, this looks really cool!

from squashed:

Carolyn’s Tumblelog has switched formats. She’s now writing about children’s books. She’s found that the picture/quote/text posts work great for this. This picture is from James Marshall’s Goldilocks. In this book, Goldilocks is sort of a snot.It’s also making me feel like I missed some great books when I was growing up. It also reminds me that if you think you could write and illustrate children’s books, you’re probably wrong.
The competition is just too huge.

As a relatively new parent, this looks really cool!

squashed Via Squashed
Jan 7 6:54 am
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“Computer people love computers — so when computer people tell you “don’t use computers for that”, or “don’t use these computers for that”, you really ought to listen.”

John Gruber on computer voting machines

Good point.

marco Via Marco.org
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Jan 7 7:33 am
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AQ

from dailymeh:

I cannot pretend it’s a frequently asked question, but at least it’s an asked question. The author of Things I tripped over on my way to the internet asks, in response to a totally unrelated link of mine that somehow mentioned the word “excruciated”:

I just have one question: Is “excruciated” a word?

The answer: yes, it’s the past form of excruciate, meaning inflicting pain upon or torture. In the context, “She might have been spared a lifetime of being polite but bored, bewildered, and sometimes excruciated while listening to music”, it’s used in the passive voice—meaning, this woman was inflected pain upon by her not being able to perceive music.

Tune in next time, folks, for more exciting Asked Questions, here at Daily meh.

Wow, a response to my half-serious question! Thanks! I actually got the sense from the quote that, rather than the pain being inflicted by the inability to perceive music, what she hears instead of music is so noisome that she is excruciated by it. I guess that’s kind of the same thing.

dailymeh Via Daily Meh
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