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- Sea-Going Turtle Under Fire For Egg Abandonment 14:30 - 11.03.2010 The Onion Radio News
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Richard Dawkins in conversation with Robyn Williams
14:00 - 11.03.2010
RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates
At the Melbourne Town Hall, presented by the Melbourne Writers Festival.
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'Stroke of luck' led to life on Earth
14:00 - 11.03.2010
RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates
That was the evolutionary message of author, biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins to a packed auditorium at the Christchurch Town Hall last night.
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sean penn is lying about how wonderful he is again
14:08 - 11.03.2010
What Would Tyler Durden Do
Sean Penn has done tons of interviews lately to let people know that he doesn’t want attention for his charity work in Haiti, and to his credit he mostly talks about himself as part of a team. The only story that has come out about him specifically involved his rescue of two people [...]
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timberlake is cheating on jessica biel again
14:58 - 11.03.2010
What Would Tyler Durden Do
Jessica Biel was in New York last night to introduce the documentary, ‘Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro’, which has something to do with the people being able to get clean drinking water (note - she’s for it). Jess actually climbed Kilimanjaro last year as part of the project. Justin Timberlake, who Jessica [...]
- 18-Year-Old Demands Right To Be Sexually Harrassed In Workplace 14:00 - 9.03.2010 The Onion Radio News
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Today through Saturday: Merlin's Advanced OmniFocus Demo (MacWorld Booth #760)
14:46 - 11.02.2010
43 Folders
I’ll have a more proper Monthly Pimp on-deck here soon, but – time being of the essence here – I wanted to make sure and extend an invitation for something I’ll be doing in town today.
If you’re one of my nerdy band of brothers who’s in San Francisco this week for MacWorld, please do come visit me between 1:30 and 2:30 (today, Friday, and Saturday), at the giant, glistening, Oz-like Omni Group booth (#760).
As below (via), I’ll be blowing minds and curling shorties with some of the most advanced-level, post-doc OmniFocus fu that I know. And, as is my wont, I’ll also be sharing some of the deeper mojo that explains why OF was built the way it was (read: why it’s so [ugh.] ‘complicated’), and how you can choose to leverage that functionality in building a personalized and friction-free workflow. And, yeah, while I’ll certainly be touching on the connections with GTD, the big focus will be on thinking about how to support that phrase Ethan and I came up with so many years ago:
Always focus on shortening the path from cognition to completion.
Love that. Pretty much sums up my take on the whole productivity game in one sentence.
Me? I’ll be easy enough to recognize today – I’m the one with the throwing stars in my gi and the sandalfoot pantyhose1 on his head.
from the Omni Group’s post:
Merlin Mann: Advanced Secrets of the Omnifocus Ninja
Thursday through Saturday afternoons from 1:30-2:30pm, Merlin Mann (43 Folders, MacBreak Weekly, You Look Nice Today) will stealthily rappel into the Omni Group’s booth (#760) to demonstrate the arcane and deadly methods of the OmniFocus Ninja. Long thought by many to be an elaborate myth or hoax, these ancient productivity moves unlock the hidden power of Omni’s award-winning task management app.Working the bookmarklet
Friction-free task management right from your iPhoneTricking-out your Perspectives
Slice and dice your work into perfect-sized cubesNovel uses for on-hold projects
Out of sight means out-of-mind — until you need itLocation, Location, Location!
Using the power of location-awareness in your contextsBONUS: Five more tiny OmniFocus tricks almost nobody knows about
(seeeeeekr1t!)
Hope to see you there!
Come. Love. Booth. Okay?
And, yes, I the Titular Ninja also really hope to see you and your neckbeard in ole 760 today.
Because, seriously? Don’t be that guy who hangs back and doesn’t come up and say “hi” like a person. You must introduce yourself and high-five or shake hands or take a picture of us frenching or whatever. I don’t want to see a bunch of toots about how you almost came up. Don’t be that Lizard Brain guy, right? Exactly.2
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Noooooo….I’m not actually wearing sandalfoot pantyhose on my heard. Everybody knows real ninjas wear taupe Sheer Energy® Control Top L’eggs®. ↩
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Well. Frankly, we don’t have to french. That’s just what we in the industry call “a value add.” If you want, you can just learn to become insanely productive, then go drink with Gruber, Moltz, Seoulbrother, and the rest of the Dream Team. (That’s what I’ll be doing, anyhow) ↩
”Today through Saturday: Merlin's Advanced OmniFocus Demo (MacWorld Booth #760)” was written by Merlin Mann for 43Folders.com and was originally posted on February 11, 2010. Except as noted, it's ©2010 Merlin Mann and licensed for reuse under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. "Why a footer?" -
First, care.
14:51 - 5.02.2010
43 Folders
Asked and answered by the wonderful Frank Chimero:
Anonymous asked: ‘How do you maintain focus (on work, dreams, goals, life)?’
You do one thing at a time.You might be amazed how many times–and over how many years–a given person can ask this same simple question, hear that same simple response, and still find themselves casting about for the great and arcane “secret” to achieving real focus.
But, this is pretty much it. Mostly.
Although, I must add one important “Step Zero,” borne of my own tedious experience.
Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.
Specifically, if you discover, in frustration, that you’re pathologically incapable of doing one thing at a time, consider the possibility that you’ve been unknowingly trying to “focus” on two, twenty, or twenty thousand disparate things that you don’t really care that much about. Just consider it.
Because, in the absence of caring, you’ll never focus on anything more than your lack of focus. Think about it.
Think about those times when you really disappeared into challenging work. You had to tear yourself away, right?
Because, during those happy times you were fortunate enough to find yourself engaged with something that you cared intensely about, you probably started asking a really different sort of question.
A more transitive, muscular question that shows you own the attention that others may see as a bowl full of complimentary Jolly Ranchers, free for the grabbing.
That’s when you ask,
How many things do I need to shed, cancel, defer, drop, shank, or shit-can with extreme prejudice in order to singlemindedly focus on this one thing that I love?
In my experience (yes, as I said, hard-won experience), obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil “distractions,” and constantly reassessing which shiny new “system” might make your life suddenly seem more sensible–these are all terrifically useful warning flares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem.
Where’s the care?
For as long as you know in your heart that what you’re making or doing matters, and, consequently, for as long as you accept and embrace the immutable laws of scarcity, your options for maintaining focus will, like Frank’s perfect answer, remain stunningly obvious.
You “focus” on the one thing you care about, as you “unfocus” on everything else. If not for every minute of your life, at least for the time you set aside to pursue the thing that matters.
If that sounds fancy and oversimplified, then you “care” about too many things. Period.
My suggestion? Own your distractions, resist fiddly half-measures, and never for a minute allow yourself to believe that productivity systems, space pens, or a writing app that plays new age music while you stare at a blank page in full-screen mode can ever teach you anything about how to care.
That’s all on you.
So, first, care. Then, as you’ll happily and unavoidably discover, all that “focus” business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.
”First, care.” was written by Merlin Mann for 43Folders.com and was originally posted on February 05, 2010. Except as noted, it's ©2010 Merlin Mann and licensed for reuse under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. "Why a footer?" -
Roy Wood Jr Video Blog- Japanese Hot Dogs
14:10 - 2.02.2010
Comic Roy Wood, Jr. aka Jim J McHater's MySpace Blog
New Video Blog. The name says it all. You're welcome. Go Cub.
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Baby, you can't pray that direction....
14:57 - 2.02.2010
Comic Roy Wood, Jr. aka Jim J McHater's MySpace Blog
Another Long one. But hey, lets be real...when's the last time I posted something over here? LOL FEB. 2 2010WELL BABY YOU NEED TO PRAY A DIFFERENT DIRECTIONNEW ...
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Flash Player 10.1 running on a Nexus One “Google Phone”
14:39 - 6.01.2010
bradstrickland.com - Web Design, Development and Apple.
Flash running on the Nexus One is no real surprise. Google has been working with Adobe for years to make Flash more indexable in it’s search engine. Everything performed well in the video, but it’s a video it’s suppose to perform well.
Will Apple start to allow Flash on the iPhone? Maybe?
Google is a huge advocate of web standards. Their search business model depends on an open and indexable internet. Perhaps they feel that the Adobe Flash 10.1 Player finally meets the minimum standards for a good net citizen? Or perhaps they have much less controller over the Nexus One, than Apple has over the iPhone and this is a concession to HTC? Both questions are speculation at this point. What isn’t speculation is that Apple has a worthy competitor to it’s iPhone and it runs Flash.
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Extended Toy Story 3 clip!!!
14:58 - 21.12.2009
bradstrickland.com - Web Design, Development and Apple.
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2010 Call for Entries
14:18 - 8.12.2009
Dam Short Film Festival's MySpace Blog
2010 Call for Entries Closed on Dec 1!Look for the official announcement Jan 1st 2010
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"The History of My Vagina and Other Sordid Tales" Book Release!
14:03 - 21.08.2009
The Shea's MySpace Blog
Hello, All!I spent most of my morning jacking with MySpace Events trying to build an invitation to send to everyone, but alas "an error has repeatedly occurred and you're just shit outta luck."I figur...
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Because all the good news comes from Florida
14:24 - 18.08.2009
The Shea's MySpace Blog
A Florida woman was arrested last week, despite her alleged almighty husband. According to Jacksonville.com, Emma Kim-Tashis Harrison was arrested for fraud after attempting to buy a car with a bad ch...
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01-01-2009: 2009 Schedule Posted!
14:46 - 31.12.2008
:Dam Short Film Festival's MySpace Blog
Click Here
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USE MY OTHER PAGE - I NEVER COME HERE...
14:49 - 30.05.2008
the other doug stanhope page's MySpace Blog
This page is a relic. Join me at my regular page at www.myspace.com/dougstanhope - found here in the Top Friends. Thanks for that. stanhope
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Stanhope in '08 Has Quit in '07!
14:33 - 1.05.2007
the other doug stanhope page's MySpace Blog
May 1st, 2007Stanhope in '08 has Quit in '07!We're done, at least so far as being a candidate.For all of our false optimism, forced enthusiasm and the tireless effort ofa small team of close friends, ...

