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August 27, 2007

Computer Workstation Ergonomics

Computer workstation ergonomics

August 16, 2007

A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home

A guide to creating a minimalist home

July 14, 2007

Declutter Your Digital Life

Lifehacker: Top 10 ways to declutter your digital life — I must do some of these when I return

June 15, 2007

Roll Your Own Online Office

Roll your own on-line office

50 Things You Need to Know by Age 50

AARP: 50 things you need to know by age 50

10 Simple Ways to Save Yourself From Messing Up Your Life

10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life:

June 14, 2007

Geeks and Airline Security

Traveling tips for geeks dealing with airline security

May 28, 2007

How to Make Excercise a Daily Habit

I'm telling you: Leo's Zen Habits is my favorite blog right now. (Leo is one of my "imaginary colleagues".) Here's how to make exercise a daily habit and 7 ways to build the exercise habit.

May 25, 2007

The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

The quick and easy way to effective speaking

May 22, 2007

Overclocking Your Reading Speed

Overclocking your reading speed — ironically, at Leo's blog but not by Leo

May 21, 2007

How to Learn Another Language Quickly

How to learn another language quickly

May 10, 2007

How to Talk to the Press

Matt on how to talk to the press — This is something I'm doing more of lately.

March 21, 2007

Guidelines for Using a Cell Phone Abroad

Guidelines for using a cell phone abroad

January 19, 2007

Julia Child: What I've Learned

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January 10, 2007

How to Turn Your Blog Into a Book

How to turn your blog into a book. Hmmm....

December 9, 2006

How to Improve Your Handwriting

How to improve your handwriting

August 2, 2006

How to Make a 100 Page Notebook

How to make a 100 page notebook

July 10, 2006

How Meditation Works

How meditation works — I've been thinking I should practice a little meditation in order to calm the million thoughts constantly buzzing in my head...

July 2, 2006

How to Clean Your Digital Camera Sensor

How to clean your digital camera sensor is another good MacWorld article from the latest issue...

Manage a Large iTunes Library

How to manage a large iTunes library by Kirk McElhearn (originally from July 2005 MacWorld). I have a huge iTunes library. It needs managing.

June 6, 2006

Top Ten Questions Investors Ask

I need a new flotch category: J.D.'s Big Dream. This article on the top ten questions investors asked us (when we were pitching our new company) has lots of interesting points for any business start-up. Or book project.

June 4, 2006

How Do I Build Good Bookshelves

AskMe: How do I build good bookshelves?

June 3, 2006

Mindfulness in Plain English

Mindfulness in plain English

May 23, 2006

How to Grow a Square Watermelon

How to grow a square watermelon

April 29, 2006

How to Dry a Wet Book

How to dry a wet book

April 26, 2006

Knife Maintenance and Sharpening

Awesome info for foodies: knife maintenance and sharpening

April 25, 2006

Cat Communication

Cat communication — a summary of cat postures and vocalizations that will allow you to "speak cat". (It's amazing how much of this a cat owner learns after a few years.)

April 14, 2006

Bunny Guide redux

Let me point again to Nicole's Bunny Guide. Thanks, Nik!

April 7, 2006

Caring For Your Inner Introvert

Caring for your inner introvert — the habits and needs of a little-understood group [via rich]

How Do I Stop Surfing the Internet?

AskMe: How do I stop surfing the internet at work? I'd like to learn how to stop surfing the internet, period.

April 3, 2006

Lose Weight This Time!

AskMe: How to make losing weight work this time? Also: How do I help him lose weight?

March 29, 2006

Vegan Twinkies

How to make vegan twinkies: "The biggest difference between these and regular Twinkies® is that these taste good."

Hack Your Brain With an iPod

Hack your brain with an iPod: "You can modify the electrical activity in your brain (the stuff that's picked up by EEG readings) by hearing sounds that mimic those waves."

Optimizing Performance in Photoshop

Optimizing performance in Photoshop for Macintosh OS X. I have real trouble running Photoshop on my 512mb PowerBook G4: it's just too slow.

March 27, 2006

KeepVid

KeepVid allows you to actually download those funny videos you find at YouTube or Google Video. Handy, eh?

March 25, 2006

Solar Calculator

Awesome solar calculator for determining the location of the sun at any given moment. (Useful for garden planning.)

March 23, 2006

How to Become and Early Riser

How to become and early riser — I'm a fairly early riser, when left to my own devices, but then so are most of the people I know

March 20, 2006

How Do I Interview Somebody?

AskMe: How do I interview somebody? I've been wanting to interview aging family members, to get their life history, but I have no idea how to go about it.

Website Layout Cookbook

Awesome reference: Website Layout Cookbook — an illustrated reference of website layouts for web designers

Simple CSS Image Switcher

Simple CSS image switcher, for future web designs

March 17, 2006

Does Pressure-Treated Wood Belong in Your Garden?

Does pressure-treated wood belong in your garden?

One Bag

One Bag — the art and science of travelling light. "Overpacking easily heads the list of biggest travel mistakes. Thus this Web site, offering exhaustive (some might say exhausting) detail on the art of travelling light, living for an indefinite period of time out of a single (carryon-sized) bag." [via frykitty]

March 13, 2006

How to Pronounce Vegan?

Vegan (the consumer, not the alien life-form): Vee-gun or vay-gun? Veh-jun? Answer: the coiner says vee-gun, as do most vegans. Most non-vegans say vay-gun, like the alien life-form.

March 10, 2006

DIY Bookbinding

A do-it-yourself bookbinding wiki. I've been intrigued by the notion of binding some magazines and comics, but reluctant to pay the big bucks to have it done for me. [via lifehacker]

March 9, 2006

Living Without Television

Living without television

Simple Ways to Make Yourself Far Cleverer

Simple ways to make yourself far cleverer

How to Have Sex With Dolphins

How to have sex with dolphins. Words fail me. I think this is in earnest. [via barger]

March 7, 2006

Advice for Photography Competitions

Advice for entering photography competitions [via kottke]

March 5, 2006

Questions on Raspberries

Questions on raspberries

February 27, 2006

How to Free Up Space on Mac OS X

How to free up hard drive space under Macintosh OS X — some useful tips for those running out of room.

February 20, 2006

Deauthorizing iTunes

Excellent info for future reference; how to deauthorize iTunes on all computers. (I've been worried that if one of my computers died, I wouldn't be able to use my purchased music on a replacement machine.)

February 15, 2006

AskMe: How Do You Learn to Not Hold Back?

AskMe: How do you learn to not hold back?

February 9, 2006

How to Become More Detail-Oriented

AskMe: How do I become a more careful, detail-oriented person?

February 7, 2006

Fifty Writing Tools

This may be a repeat: From Poynter Online comes fifty writing tools [via the aforementioned cribnotes]

February 6, 2006

How to Be Creative

How to be Creative

February 1, 2006

Mentos Eruption

What kid wouldn't love this science experiment? The Mentos fountain (watch the video) [via ml]

January 20, 2006

Tips for Peak Mental Performance

AskMe: tips for peak mental performance. Also: taking notes on big books and what should I learn next? AskMetafilter is one of my all-time favorite web sites, no question.

January 18, 2006

How to Do What You Love

** How to do what you love **

January 16, 2006

Memory Master

A handy reference for people like me: Memory Master

January 12, 2006

How to Win Friends and Influence People

A brief guide to Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People

January 11, 2006

Anti-Telemarketing Counter-Script

This is great! An anti-telemarketing counter-script. Turn the tables on the bastards! [via bb]

Motivation for Weight Loss

AskMefi: I'm looking for some advice on how to stop waffling and finally make some significant changes with regards to my health & my weight.

January 10, 2006

Treating Flood-Damaged Older and Historic Buildings

Treating flood-damaged older and historic buildings. Also: avoiding basement flooding.

January 9, 2006

Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop tutorials

Taking Professional Product Photos Without a Professional

Taking professional product photos without a professional (I suspect that much of this can be applied directly to macro photography, too)

January 7, 2006

I Will Teach You To Be Rich

I Will Teach You To Be Rich is a great personal finance weblog

January 5, 2006

101 Tips For Improving Children's Behavior

101 tips for improving children's behavior. Also (and probably more useful): Parent Hacks.