William James (1): "The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgement..."

Courtesy of @judithd I'm reading a Usenet thread from 1981 http://bit.ly/51r8oQ (attn: if u think social media started recently)

Creator of Prezi used it to record my social media class session http://prezi.com/fd4omecq6xoe/

SelfControl 1.2.2 for OSX -- block yr email, facebook, twitter for blocks of time, but still access rest of web: http://bit.ly/emqeW
Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X application which blocks access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and websites for a predetermined period of time. For example, you could block access to your email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still have access to the rest of the web. Once started, it can not be undone by the application, by deleting the application, or by restarting the computer – you must wait for the timer to run out.