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Is school really a prison? Would a child who is raised without the constraints of the schooling process be more creative and enjoy life more than one who has spent most of the first 18 years of their life in a structured environment, doing as they’re told?

Everystockphoto is a free stock photography site. It looks like it’s a meta-search for other sources of free stock photos.

[ 37 signals ] Reveal your flaws, and people will identify with you more: Win fans by dropping the potato pancake – includes a link to a video with (famous cook) Julia Child making an omelette.

As people use the web more and more to organise their social lives, tools to support event attendance continue to breed. Here are eleven web based event meeting invite management tools.

[disassociated] ten mental rules for puzzle solving – a tiny gem.

How to Read a 291-Page Book in Two Hours (this only really works for non-fiction, and would work especially well for business books). I’ve found myself taking this kind of approach more and more in the last year or two, as there are books that I need to be familiar with, but not necessarily to …

Continue reading “how to “read” books quickly”

Wanting to back up your tweets, and your friends’ tweets? you can with this tool, and Google reader, though it does tend to overwhelm the rest of the RSS feeds!

[ swiss miss ] simplify – a low-tech way to make your remote controls easier to work with.

Making the case for shifting into surge mode to accomplish large tasks.

A contrarian view to the normal usability crowd on why having a software feature run a few seconds faster actually matters.