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Six Apart redesign (plus a few thoughts from your author)

Wrote a little bagatelle on blogging for the Six Apart kids. Congrats to them and Mule for a beautiful re-launch.

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How are you using your Moleskine?

How are you using your Moleskine?

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TOPICS: Projects

Calm Technology: How do I know when I need to know?

"A calm technology will move easily from the periphery of our attention, to the center, and back...."

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Burn Calories Trying to Catch Your Keyboard

treaddesk.jpgTired of trying to fit exercise into your busy work schedule? Sure you are. Lucky for you there's the TreadDesk, which lets you walk while you work! Not convinced? Then you're just too lazy to click through. Here, tubby:

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Dethroner on the 1.0 of incremental weight loss

Dear Grady, You Asshole at Dethroner

Joel, situated in day two of Dethroner's topical "weight loss" week, throws down on the need for what I like to call a 1.0; yeah, we all want to be perfect, but first we just have to suck less -- in Joel's case, that means the need to just intake less, even if it's pre-packaged, non-organic, non-artisanal cuisine.

The compulsion to be perfect, immediately and eternally, is one of the most profound causes of procrastination for the garden-variety human, and it most certainly gives each of us all the reason we'll ever need not to even try. Or, as Joel puts it, to commenter "Grady:"

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Automatic Income & 4-Hour Workweek

Automatic Income & 4-Hour Workweek

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Backup via rsync routine details, pls.

In MacBreak Weekly 73, Merlin quickly mentioned an rsync-based routine that he uses that is proscribed by someone named "JWC".

Could Merlin (or anyone) please provide details? I'm always looking for a better way to skin the backup cat.

Lifehacker: Canadian Press Secretary on his HPDA

Gina talks with Ian Capstick, who coordinates complex press interactions for NDP party MPs using a favorite tool of ours.

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