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"Kiss up and kick down."

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:49:47 -0400

“Kiss up and kick down.”

- Execupundit.com: 10 Terrible Strategies for Office Politics

Genuine Curiosity: Improve your productivity: Establish your...

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:46:56 -0400

Genuine Curiosity: Improve your productivity: Establish your operating principles

This is *very* interesting. If you need routine and cues to keep you focused at work (or keeping good work-life balance), this might be an approach. Something to reflect upon…

Back to Basics: Capture Your Ideas - Stepcase Lifehack

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:32:46 -0400

Back to Basics: Capture Your Ideas - Stepcase Lifehack

"And then you write, ‘Oh, they’re just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.’ First of..."

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:27:58 -0400

“And then you write, ‘Oh, they’re just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.’ First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!”

- Stephen Colbert
Source of idiom: rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic - Wiktionary

dawnowar:From: corcarpemei and mattlanger:As quandaries go,...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:12:09 -0400

dawnowar:

From: corcarpemei and mattlanger:
As quandaries go, they don’t get more unresolvable than this.
If you have cats you hang it as pictured on the right or else you’ll end up with the whole roll on the floor.

Agreed. With my six cats — hang it as per the right.

"Fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke."

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:02:00 -0400

“Fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke.”

- Bette Midler (via hydeordie)
I like:
“Joke ‘em if they can’t take a fuck” — Robin WIlliams

danhacker: Mario kills a Ninja Turtle by mistake

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:17:52 -0400

danhacker: Mario kills a Ninja Turtle by mistake

"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true!"

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:19:33 -0400

“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true!”

- Homer Simpson (via mirza)

"Key members agree on the elements but not on the general philosophy."

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:48:00 -0400

“Key members agree on the elements but not on the general philosophy.”

- Execupundit.com: Your “What Can Go Wrong” List
This one always rears its ugly head far too late in the game — it leave a huge impact crater.

33 Keys to Unbridled Childlike Happiness - Mind Map | Life...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:02:45 -0400

33 Keys to Unbridled Childlike Happiness - Mind Map | Life Optimizer

rodmitch:Happy Canada Day! « Flickr Blog (photo by...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:49:32 -0400

rodmitch:

Happy Canada Day! « Flickr Blog (photo by martypinker)
This is a great “Canada” picture: the friendly government official, the multi-ethnic-ness, and, above all, Tim Horton’s!

Agreed! If Norman Rockwell was a modern Canadian photographer, this would be what’d he’s capture as a slice of Canadiana.

livejamie: How to confuse an Idiot

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:15:00 -0400

livejamie: How to confuse an Idiot

danhacker:CHAINSAW MAID-This is probably the goriest and...

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:49:21 -0400

danhacker:

CHAINSAW MAID
-This is probably the goriest and most disturbed thing I’ve seen today. But it’s OK since it’s claymation.

Awesome! (gruesome)

Is it a Project or a Task? Is it Actionable?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:23:00 -0400

Project verbs

Finalize, Resolve, Handle, Look into, Submit,
Maximize, Organize, Design, Complete, Ensure,
Roll out, Update, Install, Implement, Set-up

Next-action verbs

Call, Organize, Review, Buy, Fill out, Find, Purge,
Look into (Web), Gather, Print, Take, Waiting for,
Load, Draft, Email

GTD: Project Verbs vs. Next-Action Verbs | 43 Folders

"Ah!” said a brave painter to me, thinking on these things, “if a man has failed, you will find he..."

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:16:23 -0400

““Ah!” said a brave painter to me, thinking on these things, “if a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working. There is no way to success in our art, but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.””

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in Lessons in Productivity from Ralph Waldo Emerson | Zen Habits

Stephen Hawking’s explosive new theory - Telegraph

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:00:32 -0400

Stephen Hawking’s explosive new theory - Telegraph

Happy Canada Day! (via ianmac)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:07:17 -0400

Happy Canada Day! (via ianmac)

Evil Super Mario World

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:34:09 -0400

Evil Super Mario World:

cubicle17:

Below are two levels of [Super] Mario World, which are geniusly designed by a Japanese author, and he named them the Kaizo Mario.
If the original Super Mario World were this hard, I don’t know that I would love the game as much as I do. (via urlesque)

Insane! Mario FTW!

danhacker: Quantum of Solace - Teaser Trailer I remember a...

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:27:00 -0400

danhacker:

Quantum of Solace - Teaser Trailer
I remember a time when I actually didn’t care about James Bond as a character, but now I do because he is all kinds of crazy awesome thanks to Daniel Craig.

He’s quickly becoming my favorite “Bond” too — definitely the most complex incarnation to date.

The Story of Stuff Teaser (via FreeRangeStudios)Full version...

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:02:30 -0400

The Story of Stuff Teaser (via FreeRangeStudios)

Full version (~20 minutes)