For the Mac users among you, here’s something I’ve been doing the last few months that you might find useful.
When you get to the following part of your weekly review (which you are doing, aren’t you?):

Review “Pending” and Support Files
Browse through all work-in-progress support material to trigger new actions, completions, and waiting-fors.

try using the column [...]

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skeletons have hearts too

Originally uploaded by BetterOffDead

A little to the right, maybe.

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A friend of mine from my undergrad days at Tulane decided to have some fun with subject lines from SPAM in his Inbox. He assigned each subject line to an appropriate celebrity/persona. Here’s an example:

Oscar Meyer: “What you need is an award winning wiener.”

Seems like a fun game! The whole post is here. [...]

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Despite using the Mozilla browser and its descendants for eight years (or so), I never knew about this. It was brought to my attention in a roundabout way by this (possibly NSFW) LiveJournal post and subsequent comment thread.
As always, Wikipedia has more details.

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As a friend of mine recently put it (to paraphrase him), “Advertising isn’t bad in theory, but it’s not about advertising any more. Now they know how to get in your head and make you want things.”
It’s freaky. Manipulative. Rather then provide (and advertise) what the market wants, why not create the market?
I’ve covered how [...]

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