[ 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.
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tools for planning your next event online
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.
Solve it!
[disassociated] ten mental rules for puzzle solving – a tiny gem.
how to “read” books quickly
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 …
back up tweets with Google Reader
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!
too many remotes, too many buttons? fix it!
[ swiss miss ] simplify – a low-tech way to make your remote controls easier to work with.
working in a state of intensity
Making the case for shifting into surge mode to accomplish large tasks.
The Economics of Speed
A contrarian view to the normal usability crowd on why having a software feature run a few seconds faster actually matters.
using TV to inspire creativity
Smashing magazine has a list of Unique TV Series Episodes That Inspire Creativity; episodes where the writers jumped out of the usual way of running things and took some risks.
where the billions go
Infographic shows how various billions are (and were) spent. Somehow easier to understand visually.