The following are five Lifehacker articles or discussions that I found useful and interesting:
1. Top 10 Modern Life Survival Skills
2. Top 10 Computer Annoyances and How to Fix Them
3. How Priorities Make Things Happen
4. How to Hack a Technical Job Interview
5. Best Video Feeds?
Monday, July 21, 2008
Lifehacker Top Five
Link Mania: Half Tilt
One Hundred Pushups - six week training program that helps you complete 100 consecutive push ups
MindMeister - "MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions."
Scour - social search engine
switchAbit - routes content to multiple social services
The 20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1
7 Steps To Developing A Strong Network In Case You Get Fired
Five Signs That You're Living Beyond Your Means
10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas
7 Super Snacks That Heal
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Link Mania: Full Tilt
Topix - news community
Mahalo - human-powered search engine
InformationWeek - business technology news, reviews, and blogs
Miro - free, open source internet TV and video player
SurveyMonkey.com - online survey software
1 World 2 Wheels - "Change the World. Pledge to Go By Bike."
Scribus - open source desktop publishing
Lively by Google - new interactive chat experience
MIT Open Courseware - free lecture notes, exams, and videos
How Stuff Works - "award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works"
Live Search Health - "Discover and act on (Web) health results powered by Microsoft HealthVault"
Posterous - "Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email us... and we reply instantly with your new posterous blog."
Media Matters for America - "Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Tech News Roundup
Noteworthy technology news from the New York Times:
Amazon Plans an Online Store for Movies and TV Shows
Nintendo and Sony Unveil Games
Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages
In Surprise, 2 Tech Titans Disappoint
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Link Mania - Full Tilt
Fast Company TV - business video network
Zoomerang - online survey software
College Prowler - college reviews created by students for students
Affluenza Documentary
Free Car Media - A Nontraditional Marketing Company
PBwiki - "PBwiki is the world's largest provider of hosted business and educational wikis."
Anywhere.FM - "Anywhere.FM is a powerful music player that makes it easy to: 1. Upload your entire music collection 2. Play it anywhere on the best web music player 3. Discover new music through Friend Radio "
National Public Radio - "NPR (National Public Radio) is an internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming."
Address The Mess - Comedy Central's green campaign. "The network's new pro-social campaign is committed to showing viewers easy ways to reduce waste, improve their lives and help revive the planet."
The Top 50 Productivity Blogs
"The Last Lecture: A Love Story for Your Life"
Randy Pausch's Home Page
The Personal MBA: Mastering Business Without Spending a Fortune
10 Universities Offering Free Writing Courses Online
Three Web 2.0 Sites That Aggregate Content
- FriendFeed - "FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends."
- FeedJournal - " The idea of generating a personalized newspaper from RSS and Atom feeds started to take form around the end of 2005. A few months later the “Made In Express Contest” launched, a competition to promote the free line of Express development products from Microsoft. From 1,500 entry submissions FeedJournal was picked as one of 12 finalists. In the end of a fierce competition, FeedJournal was awarded First Prize."
- Pipes - "Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web."
Buying a New Car? - Think Again
Buying a new car sounds pretty tempting. Who wouldn't want a new car? On the other hand, who really needs a new car? Nobody needs a new car and only the wealthy can truly afford a new car. The money you could save by instead opting for a used car is mind boggling. Watch this presentation and be amazed.
Link Mania: Law, Technology, and Technology Law
Lessig Blog - blog of stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig
Electronic Frontier Foundation - "Defending Freedom in the Digital World"
Fastcase - Legal Research and Case Law
The Public Library of Law - world's largest free law library
Scobeizer - tech geek blogger
Three Personal Health Tips
First of all, ensure that you are getting adequate sleep. Sleeping has many benefits including improving memory, helping to maintain a healthy immune system, improving motor control, and more. Psychology Today has the full scoop.
Second, you should be eating real food. What is real food? Well, Michael Pollan explains exactly that in his new book "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto". In the book, he characterizes how we should eat by saying: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants." Then, he proposes "an alternative way of eating that is informed by the traditions and ecology of real, well-grown, unprocessed food." Read more about Michael Pollan's book at his website.
Lastly, reports by the CDC show that married adults are "healthier than divorced, widowed or never married adults." So, if you haven't tied the knot yet, maybe it's time you think about it. Chances are you'll be healthier for doing it. Read the full findings for more information on why married adults are the healthiest.
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