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[ craig ] Teenage boys have an approach to getting work done that can at best be described as pragmatic: at worst, though, it’s laziness and disorganisation. A few ideas on how the transition can be made to something better (simply staying alive for a few more years is often not enough).

We still need URLs now for navigating the web, but are URLs in danger of disappearing altogether?

Despite the “seven steps” title of the post, these thoughts on finding work/life balance are worth considering. Are you productive for your whole work day, or is the work culture making you spend a bunch of time at your desk for the sake of it? Perhaps you could have a job that has a better …

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[/karen/] These principles of staging helped me to understand how some of the visual language of screen and comic work to establish the relative dominance of characters. I’m not sure how it will be useful yet, but I’m glad to know about it!

Can Stories Increase the Value of Objects by 6,000 Percent? – ebay tests confirm this to be the case.

A good question for freelancers: Could a virtual assistant improve your productivity?

This was a while ago now: World should mourn the loss of the world’s greatest man.

A tragic story of the effects obsessive compulsive disorder had on one sufferer and his family.

Perhaps I’m getting old, but I think there are some real brain-stretchers in this list of 140 Google Interview Questions. Such a long list means it’s really made just for skimming, but nonetheless, there’s some fun to be had in picking random questions and trying to answer them.

Tips and Tricks: Making the Most of Google Calendar – if you haven’t started using any kind of online calendaring system, you might like to give Google Calendar a try. I’ve found that having an electronic calendaring system is a really useful thing.