Dumping my browser tabs, Paul K. style.
- Sad, Sweet One-Act Play, Told Entirely By a Burger King Receipt I Found This is the kinda thing I worry about when I think about being old. Though, as J. pointed out, it doesn’t have to be interpreted in a sad way.via
- Occasionally I will get a large chunk of copy a client wants to use, but which needs to be converted from ALL CAPS, the case many people insist on writing in. Convert Case is a good website to use for this. Very handy.
- New to me: The concept of “t-shaped creativity“. I like the distinction between being t-shaped and a jack-of-all-trades. Hat tip to Jeremy Johnson.
- Bridging the gap between the online and the offline: Use postful to send snail mail to any address from the web. $1 a letter. I like things like this. Just wish I had someone to send mail to. I’ve also been using Fresh Books for my invoicing. I love it! Now when I need to send someone an invoice via snail mail I can do it through my Fresh Books account and it only costs $1. Everyone else can just pay online. They even send the invoice with a return payment envelope and a printed link to pay online. This is way easier than printing everything out from Microsoft Money and mailing myself, which I used to do and why I only invoiced every 2-3 months. Use this referral link if you’re interested and you will make me rich. Other ideas for bridging the gap: The Cheap and Easy Way to Go Paperless.
- Now I get it: Sometimes I’m slow to understand things. Things like Facebook, Twitter and now OpenID. When OpenID first came out, I just didn’t get it. But, if someone had just told me, “Now you can use one login for everything” it would have made more sense to me. I’ve started using OpenID with Basecamp and a few other things and it’s pretty incredible. I actually hope more sites start supporting it, although I need to find out how it works if you decide to move to a different OpenID provider.
- Kevin Kelly had a nice post on changing his mind about Wikipedia: Believing the Impossible: “How wrong I was. The success of the Wikipedia keeps surpassing my expectations. Despite the flaws of human nature, it keeps getting better. Both the weakness and virtues of individuals are transformed into common wealth, with a minimum of rules and elites.”
- Confirming, but not all that surprising: “embodied cognition“: “A series of studies, the latest published in November, has shown that children can solve math problems better if they are told to use their hands while thinking. Another recent study suggested that stage actors remember their lines better when they are moving.”