I really like the idea behind "List Your Way Out Of Stuckness"--particularly that notion of breaking your tasks into smaller and smaller pieces. I also just like the word “stuckness.”

How did people start singing “Sweet Caroline” at Red Sox games?

This is very cute—turn an old Zip disk cast and some custom-printed templates into a sexy little Hipster PDA variant or a mini-tickler file. Clever!

• Dynamism.com - Next Generation Japanese Notebooks and Electronics - New-to-me geek gadget site, highlighting stuff not easily available in the US. Very fun.
• IGDA - Articles - Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work: 6 Lessons - "Productivity drops immediately upon starting overtime and continues to drop until, at approximately eight 60-hour weeks, the total work done is the same as what would have been done in eight 40-hour weeks."
• NPR : GPS Goes Mainsteam - Your author would be one of those alluded-to persons who uses GPS as a "crutch." I could get lost in an empty bathtub with two St. Bernards and a sherpa guide.
• THE PRAGMATICS OF HUMOR: Representing Communication - "Cleese...says, 'I think any time I see a possibility of a misunderstanding, I jump on it.'" Cleese once brilliantly pointed out that Basil Fawlty wouldn't be nearly as funny if there weren't people standing around watching him make a fool of himself.
• Bacon Cheese Baconburger - "You may think you've done a lot of strange things in your life, but until you've put slices of raw bacon into a food processor at 10:30pm, you really haven't even scratched the surface of strange." [via MeFi]
• The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks - I'm a proud "admin" for a "related" but "unallied" Flickr "group" that I "like a lot" called "Quotation Mark" Abuse. (thanks, mathowie)

The recent volume of email, calls, and IMs about a single issue makes me think it’s time to state something publicly and explicitly: 43 Things is not related to 43 Folders in any way. Full stop.

I've searched a bit around this forum and others, and not found particularly useful information on merging and otherwise distilling duplicate files in Leopard and possibly Windows. In particular I have nested folders on two macs and a win xp machine that I would like to merge and synchronize. Currently I'm syncing the macs with Chronosync, but I'd like to merge the data from the windows machine and sync all three ideally. I could conceivably de-nest everything using some scripting to handle obvious duplicates, and then give everything a new hierarchy once cleaned up.

Really good post on a satisfying hybrid of paper and digital. Full of good insight and “what I've learned” observations. Best of many good lines: “The power of Greyskull is the power of the next action.” Word.

New features continue to move app beyond its modest roots.

Lifehacker - Feature

Our pals over at Lifehacker have a new section of Features where they’re posting longer how-tos and tutorials on all manner of cool stuff. Don’t miss How to set up a personal home web server, How to control your home computer from anywhere, and Professional E-mail Tips. These are all very well done and super-useful.

Permit me to extend two enthusiastic horns of rock toward the Lifehacker domain to celebrate this august move. The crew there is composed of some very smart cookies, and it’s really cool to see them spreading their wings and being encouraged to augment their link blogging with excellent original content. This is good.

Just because no one’s asked me yet, I’ll volunteer a stray factoid: the sites like 43F that I ever visit more than occasionally have some things in common: a) they have an original voice and a point of view, b) the authors make an effort to create and share new content and ideas—or at least present old ones in a new or contextual way.