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“A Florida woman gave birth to a baby 9 days early at 9:09 in the morning on 9-9-09. But, get this, 8 lbs. 4 oz. LAME.”
“Half of the appeal of staying up late is the total absence of morning people.”
“I just solved world hunger! Or at least my hunger. I assume it’s scalable.”
Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why even the best task chair in the world not as effective as standing? I also relate to how meditation plays into sleep and stress-related rules.
This site has some great videos that demonstrate these simple principles…
THE 12 RULES
EXERCISE | Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power.
SURVIVAL | Rule #2: The human brain evolved, too.
WIRING | Rule #3: Every brain is wired differently.
ATTENTION | Rule #4: We don’t pay attention to boring things.
SHORT-TERM MEMORY | Rule #5: Repeat to remember.
LONG-TERM MEMORY | Rule #6: Remember to repeat.
SLEEP | Rule #7: Sleep well, think well.
STRESS | Rule #8: Stressed brains don’t learn the same way.
SENSORY INTEGRATION | Rule #9: Stimulate more of the senses.
VISION | Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses.
GENDER | Rule #11: Male and female brains are different.
EXPLORATION | Rule #12: We are powerful and natural explorers.
via Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
My favorite accessory is the BudCozy. It’s a fabric cover for earbuds that keeps away thetangles and looks great too.
Another free tool for making websites. looks clean but not very robust on first glance.
A web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound.
via Indexhibit.
A great list of mailing list plugins for wordpress. i also found MeeNews at http://www.wp-newsletter.com/. i have not tried it but it looks fully featured.
but i suspect it will be hard for any of these plugins to keep up with all the features that a paid service like mailchimp offers.
In this article he needed the ability to export the user list in .csv format so it can be used in other programs (like CRM).
YouTube – Inspired Bicycles – Danny MacAskill April 2009.
Taking parkour to another level with bike-based moves.
interesting new site that invites anyone to submit and idea or contribute to an existing invention idea. profit sharing model (“influencers”) included.
the idea is to bring “community developed” products to the marketplace. Example: Marc Zech had an idea for a double-sided mini hard drive (one USB plug might hold personal data, the other work data). He submitted his notion to Quirky.com, and then, a few weeks later, the Split Stick is being manufactured. Read More
…by default Magento lacks a good way of including a group of products on a page if they are not all products from one single category.
now you can also filter the products on attribute value – For instance to show all red cell phones on one page…
via Landing pages module for Magento – Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
The West Prize was launched in 2008 with the mission to find exciting new artists and adding them to the West Collection
The West Prize will again award the 10 finalists $10,000 each from the acquisition funds, which is used to add their work to the West Collection. The application deadline is November 1, 2009 and artists must be 18 years or older and can live anywhere in the world.
Panorama: Inside Grand Central Terminal
NYTimes: A great panorama from Grand Central Station.
Inside a cramped brick room in the train station are the greasy innards of a hundred-year-old clock with a stained-glass dial, the largest of Grand Central’s timepieces.
via Rooms – Rooms Panorama: Inside Grand Central Terminal – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com.