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"The Printable CEO™ (PCEO) was born from a desire to focus my time more productively. For me, that means things that make my freelance practice sustainable and fun."

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Compact Calendar 2012 | David Seah

"The Compact Calendar is a versatile planning calendar that is easy to customize and print with Microsoft Excel. It comes in three different week styles, and is localized for different countries by volunteers around the world."

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3 more GTD wallpapers! | Anabubula.com *

Lovely GTD wallpapers - also great to print out and stick in your planner!

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Moleskine/Hacks - 43FoldersWiki

A long list of Moleskine hacks.

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The Pomodoro Technique®

"The Pomodoro Technique® is a way to get the most out of time management. Turn time into a valuable ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvement in the way we do it."

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What is (not) a GTD context? | Evomend

Some great advice here for managing that ridiculously long list of contexts.

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How To Reset & Rebuild WordPress Theme CSS & Define Your Layouts | ThemeShaper

Excellent reset and rebuild!

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Veggie Places - Vegetarian Restaurants, Vegan Restaurants and Hotels Guide

"The worldwide guide for vegetarian, vegan and veggie-friendly restaurants, cafes, hotels, guest houses, pubs and shops."

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Vegetarian Visitor UK Vegetarian Travel Guidebook

"The number one annually updated and award winning UK vegetarian guide to accommodation, B&B, guest houses, hotels, pubs cafes, vegetarian restaurants which take catering for vegetarians and vegans seriously."

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FourEyesUp | Sci-tech travel from around the world

"Welcome to FourEyesUp - Sci-tech travel from around the world"

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Alternatives to Stonehenge: 10 Places to Celebrate the Summer Solstice | Heritage Key

"Okay so you're too far away from Stonehenge/don't have the time/fed up of charging through 40,000 overtired revellers: where else can you see the summer solstice this year? Worry not, for here are ten other places on the British Isles you're more than welcome to see in the midsummer sun."

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Nerdy Day Trips

"Our fantasy is that on any given road trip, you will be able to find a nerd stop somewhere along your route, or perhaps even plot out a nerd odyssey across the UK."

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Pond Volume Calculator

"Have you ever wondered,
why it is the case
The volume of your pond
Was only written on the base?"

Very useful for anyone with a pond!

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Design Seeds®: For All Who Love Color | Search

Colour palettes!

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How to survive a boring road trip - travel tips and articles - Lonely Planet

"There’s the old standbys: uplifting music, podcasts and audio books, roadside attractions, Meatloaf sing-alongs, and punching your sibling, but let’s think outside the box, shall we?"

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The Joy of Books - YouTube

"After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago, my wife and I (Sean Ohlenkamp) decided to take it to the next level."

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How to Fit Reading Into Your Schedule and Actually Finish the Books You Want to Read

"Reading usually requires more of your attention. Subsequently, the best way to work reading into your schedule is to find those times in the day when you can dedicate the attention needed to reading."

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Good housekeeping: Spring cleaning the DIY way | Grist

"I embarked on a personal journey into the world of homemade cleansers. And to my considerable surprise, they were awesome. Well, most of them were. I’ll never go back."

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Pro Organizer Tips: What NOT To Do When Decluttering Your Home | Apartment Therapy

"Some of this advice is hardly new or shocking. But Nicole says these five missteps are the most common in her line of work — and most likely to derail even the best efforts to conquer clutter."

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Becoming a Better Lazy Vegetarian

"I know it can be difficult keeping yourself fed up proper when you can't just slap some lunch meat on a piece of bread and call it good, but it's not that hard once you get the hang of it."

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The Highly Sensitive (HSP) Introvert Survival Guide to Weddings

"For an HSP Introvert, weddings and family get-togethers are a uniquely potent blend of heaven and hell."

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People with autism have a greater ability to process information, study sug

"People with autism have a greater than normal capacity for processing information even from rapid presentations and are better able to detect information defined as ‘critical’, according to a study published today in the ‘Journal of Abnormal Psychology’."

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Useful CSS Snippets for Your Coding Arsenal

Thankfully there are lots of great CSS snippets available online that fix common problems and design issues. In this article we have listed 30 CSS snippets that we think you will find very useful.

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How do I go from MAMP to champ? - web dreamhost wordpress | Ask MetaFilter
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The Boy Who Played With Fusion | Popular Science

"And yet Taylor’s story began much like David Hahn’s, with a brilliant, high-flying child hatching a crazy plan to build a nuclear reactor. Why did one journey end with hazmat teams and an eventual arrest, while the other continues to produce an array of prizes, patents, television appearances, and offers from college recruiters?
The answer is, mostly, support."

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Elaine Pagels on the Book of Revelation : The New Yorker

"Everybody reads Revelation; everybody gets excited about it; and generations of readers have insisted that it might even be telling the truth about what’s coming for Christmas."

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What the Girl Scouts Really Promote | Persephone Magazine

"I mean, if they’re promoting a radical pro-abortion, homosexual agenda, then they should be lobbying for those causes, right?

What I found, instead, was an agenda aimed promoting the well-being of children. The sections of their agenda include: Promoting Girls’ Physical, Social and Emotional Health, Promoting Educational Opportunities for Girls, Reaching Underserved Girls, and Supporting a Thriving Non-Profit Community.

Sounds pretty radical, doesn’t it? .... It may not be radical, but it is important."

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How Waiters Read Your Table - WSJ.com

How waiters read your table... and how you can use it to your advantage.

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E-books Can’t Burn by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

"...it becomes harder and harder to see why the literati are not giving the phenomenon a more generous welcome."

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Free iTunes U Courses for Writers & Readers - GalleyCat

"We’ve been exploring the courses over the last few weeks, uncovering ten free courses for writers and readers can download right now. Topics range from zombies to Tolkien studies to creative writing; the free courses are offered by major institutions like Stanford and Oxford."

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Some Advice for Young People | The Awl

"When people ask you about them, tell the truth. Practice saying "They're useless and horrible." Practice saying "They're soulless careerists who don't care about anything or believe in anything and they're just using us all to get ahead at any cost." Practice telling the truth. They can't stand the exposure in the light of day. They can't keep stepping on people if their previous steppings-on are known. You'll all be happier in the long run."

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We love you. Every part of you belongs to you. | MetaFilter

"ILU-486, a chilling short story by Amanda Ching, in the vein of dystopian classics like The Handmaid's Tale and inspired by recent events in Virginia, has been sweeping the blogsphere."

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Are you a neighbour from hell? You might be surprised. - Blog - The F-Word

"In other words, the "troubled families" in the Prime Minister's speech are not necessarily "neighbours from hell" at all. They are poor."
"I've had neighbours from hell. They are not these people."

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Top five regrets of the dying | Life and style | guardian.co.uk

"There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'."

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Antidepressant-infused yogurt with mail-order DNA

"Years ago, Homer Simpson stood in the family's kitchen and showed Marge his latest creation: a big bowl of homemade Prozac. Homer dug his wooden spoon in, plucked out a mound of the purply goop, and downed it.

"Mmm, needs more ice cream," Homer said."

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On Keeping a Logbook

"We all know keeping a calendar of future events is important.

What about keeping a calendar of past events?"

lifehacks writing
february 2012

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Hero Training Workouts Get You in Shape and Prepare You for Heroics

"Are you fit enough to chase down a purse snatcher, lift and carry someone to safety, or leap across rooftops? Training to develop these sorts of heroic skills can build some fun into your fitness routine and also keep you motivated."

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Plant a compact vegetable garden -- Boys' Life magazine

"What makes this compact garden so productive is that you will be placing plants close together in squares instead of traditional rows. You can continue to plant as you harvest."

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Freedom to Learn | Psychology Today

"The roles of play and curiosity as foundations for learning" by Peter Gray

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BBC News - What is life like for a teenage prodigy?

"Most people my age do despise me. I've been like this for years. I'm used to being ignored."

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november 2011

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Codecademy: A Slick, Fun Way To Teach Yourself How To Program

On the to-do list: learn how to code.

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october 2011

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Programming options for kids

With the right encouragement, these kids are going to run the world some day. I, for one, welcome our new child genius overlords.

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60 Fresh and High Quality Free PSD Files

Graphically challenged? These people have you covered. Gorgeous artwork and icons for your site.

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october 2011

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Extending the Functionality of WordPress (Part 1)

Forums, shops and so much more.

webdesign tools
october 2011

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100 Great CSS Menu Tutorials

Make those links pretty. You know it makes sense.

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october 2011

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How To Backup Your WordPress Website

Useful to know for everyone running WordPress!

webdesign security
october 2011

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20+ Great Geeky Posters For Your Office [PICS]

I want quite a few of these... damn you, import taxes!

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october 2011

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Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wi-Fi: Mashable’s Favorite Wi-Fi Names

"In honor of Wi-Fi Day Tuesday — 8.02.11 — Mashable asked [their] community to tell us about the best Wi-Fi network names they’ve seen."

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october 2011

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Size shouldn't matter: tiny kitchens | Life and style | The Guardian

There's tiny and then there's "postage stamp", but it seems like there's a lot of sound principles here.

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october 2011

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How does alternative education work?

"If you received an alternative education as a child (Summerhill, Waldorf, Montesorri, whole child, constructivist), what did you like about it? What did you not like?"

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Let's assume that I am the stupidest person that ever lived. Explain to me what JavaScript is, what it does, and how a moron would go about learning it...

"Let's assume that I am the stupidest person that ever lived. Explain to me what JavaScript is, what it does, and how a moron would go about learning it..."

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october 2011

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How to Build a Computer from Scratch: The Complete Guide [Video]

From the good folks at Lifehacker

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october 2011

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Best Practices For Designing Websites For Kids

"Both young kids and teenagers appear to like many of the same design traits that adults like, including clarity and high-quality content."

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october 2011

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Developing WordPress Locally With MAMP

Very handy for design work!

webdesign howto
october 2011

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How to Create an In-Case-of-Emergency Everything Document to Keep Your Loved Ones Informed if Worst Comes to Worst

Must work through this and make sure everything is sorted out.

lifehacks law howto
september 2011

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Basic Self-Defense Moves Anyone Can Do (and Everyone Should Know)

Some very useful tips here.

lifehacks safety
september 2011

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25 Useful Free WordPress Plugins For Multi-Author Blogs

Handy stuff for anyone managing a multi-user WordPress install

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september 2011

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Rookie | » Higher Learning

"Remembrances of the first year of high school, and advice for getting through your own, from some of our favorite grown-ups." Including Joss Whedon, Zooey Deschanel and Jack Black!

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september 2011

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Twenty for Twenty: Vegetarian Edition Article - Allrecipes.com

"Don't like repeated trips to the grocery store? Stock up on these 20 ingredients, and you can make 20 delicious dinners."
Although it's 20 main ingredients, plus a whole list of 'pantry staples', this is a useful list for creating a quick meal plan for 20 meals.

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Lifehacker Cookbook stories - Lifehacker

The Lifehacker Cookbook, including how to replicate coffee shop favourites!

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september 2011

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6 Meatless Meals (for Meat-Lovers) - Real Simple

A list of simple vegetarian recipes with a focus on protein.

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september 2011

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Kitchen Gallery: Living Plants in the Kitchen | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn

"Are you craving a little green this time of year? How about some plants in your kitchen? Herbs, ivy, potted flowers? We love having fresh herbs to snip, but even non-edible plants brighten a kitchen and make it feel more like home. Here's a look at a few real-life kitchens and the ways that they've incorporated living plants."

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september 2011

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10 Ways to Eat an Egg Tonight | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn

"What are you eating for dinner tonight? How about an egg? Here are 10 of our favorite ways to eat an egg for supper."

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CSS Cheat Sheet

Very handy reference guide for web designers everywhere who are tired of the brain farts. Now, what's that float thing all about, again?

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