The past few days have found me deep in Python scripting and Plone migrating at work. So much so that it’s been several days since I last fired up NetNewsWire. Thirty minutes and 1,007 unread-marked-as-read items later, here’s the cream of the craop for your hyperlinking enjoyment:
- Blackhole - a white/pink noise generator to drown out distractions. Between the HEPA filter and humidifier in my office at work, I’ve got plenty of white noise but someone may find this useful.
- Consumerist - HowTo Stop Direct Marketers. I’ve taken a few of these steps but apparently direct marketers requires an antibiotic-like treatment in that if you don’t follow through on the complete course, you’re right back where you began.
• 43Folders - How I . . . learned to love iCal. Almost identical to my KGTD setup so it should provide a good starting point should I ever decide to document my organization-fu. • HawkWings - Top Ten things every Mail.app user should have. MailTags and Act-on have been on my “need to look at list” for a while. • iPod Hi-Fi - Apple’s docking unit for the iPod. I’m not particularly impressed. It’d be ok for Dell or Microsoft to release something as bland as this but for Apple it’s a pretty weak offering. I’ll take my Bose Waveform with an 1/8″ -> RCA over this in a heartbeat. • Nacho Libre - Jack Black stars as Ignacio (friends call him Nacho), a Mexican priest who moonlights as a lucha libre wrestler to raise money for his orphanage in this comedy from the creators of “Napoleon Dynamite” and the writer and star of “The School of Rock.” • GoogleNews (Mobile Edition) - Google News on your phone. Considering that it took 3 hours to get my TM query back from Google last night, I’m not so fired up about GoogleYahoo! on the phone right now. • Slashlinks (via kottke) - a tool for automatically mirroring links from del.icio.us to your personal web site. I already do this with some php/cron-fu but this does provide for more flexible UI control over the display. • ZoneTag - If you’ve got a Nokia camera-phone you can have your Flickr pics auto tagged with location data using cell tower coordinates. Pretty slick. This is what happens when Yahoo! acquires smart companies. • The Wireless Report - Apples-to-Apples Comparison of the “Big Four” U.S. Wireless Providers’ Calling Plans • The Little Man - Garrison Keillor on Salon.com, History will remember Bush as an incompetent and incurious man overwhelmed by a world too big for him. • NYTimes - Study Finds Test Scores Not Lowered by Television Average TV viewing among 2- to 5-year-olds — the youngest viewers tracked by Nielsen Media Research — crept up to 3 hours and 40 minutes a day in the 2004-5 TV season. Wow. Jay watches about 15 minutes a month. Not having a TV in the living room helps of course.
Wow, that was a lot of opened Firefox tabs.
