1. First, care. →

    Merlin Mann on 43 Folders:

    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, nobody can focus on anything, apart from their own abject lack of focus. Think about it.

  2. Jim Benton.

    Jim Benton.

  3. Facebook: “Are you depressed?”

    Sick? Yes. Worried for my educational career? Yes. Loveless? Yes.

    But depressed? AW HELL NAW!

  4. Note: When a woman asks sarcastically if she looks pregnant, don’t reply “No, not really. Maybe a month into it.”

    Lesson learned.

  5. A Record Of Life by Luke Jinks and Owen Gatley

    [The animation] is loosely based on the scientific recording of life’s great species, and how this has given us clues that piece together, for us to discover the secrets of the evolution and diversity of life on Earth.

  6. The Top 10 Things We’re Glad the Recession Killed With the near constant barrage of unemployment statistics, budget deficits, and bankruptcy announcements, it’s easy to get swept up in all the doomsday rhetoric surrounding the recession. But not all the effects of the economic downtown are bad. Some of them are actually a cause for celebration.

    The Top 10 Things We’re Glad the Recession Killed

    With the near constant barrage of unemployment statistics, budget deficits, and bankruptcy announcements, it’s easy to get swept up in all the doomsday rhetoric surrounding the recession. But not all the effects of the economic downtown are bad. Some of them are actually a cause for celebration.

  7. 13 Things a Burglar Won’t Tell You Should you spend your money on a home security system? A look inside a burglar’s mind might help you decide.

    13 Things a Burglar Won’t Tell You

    Should you spend your money on a home security system? A look inside a burglar’s mind might help you decide.

  8. Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

    — Ferris Bueller

  9. Eddie: But you died for my mistake. It ain't fair.
    Blue Man: If life was fair, good people wouldn't die young.