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Mark Joyner of Simpleology has apparently hooked up with one of my favorite visionaries, Jacque Fresco of the Venus Project. Together, this Monday, they’re teaching people who can’t how to draw.

• Daily Galaxy on the virtues of clutter - For a junk junkie like me, I don't know if this counts as "triggering material" or not.
• The OSX86 project builds a "Hackintosh" - Some kind of convergence, done lo-fi.
• One Laptop Per Child faces competition… over who can create the cheapest functional computers for kids in developing countries. And how to get around the "W" word. You probably already know that the OLPC comes with its own special benefits, though. (No, not these benefits!)
• How to Develop a Mindset for Math - This has always been one of my greatest challenges. Numbers will eat me! [via.]

One of the secrets to Napoleon's amazing success (and he was a guy who definitely got things done) was embracing the high-tech innovation of canned food. He's the one who coined the phrase "an army marches on its stomach," after all. After observing my own habits, I know what he means.

New Scientist has a piece in this week’s newsletter on using the “semantic web” to get organized, focusing on a site with which I’m unfamiliar called Twine.

It’s in invite-only Beta now, but might be worth checking out.

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blockquote>Twine uses a semantic approach to act as a personal organiser, bookmark service, and a social network combined.

I have a lot of trouble keeping track of what I'm supposed to be doing. It's not that I necessarily have trouble prioritizing my tasks or scheduling things - I mean I do, but that's not the main problem.

The main problem is that I've got too many things I really need (want) to do - too many long-term projects with potential - and I'm never exactly sure when they're a few weeks away from a grand payoff and when they're just wasting my time.

I suppose this is a crisis of faith.