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Describes her painstaking process involving freezing herself photographing spray-painted rocks in a half frozen lake

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Whether you are a programmer or a designer, the production of code and markup is hard work. Without an editor dedicated to the task, it is also often cumbersome, overwhelming, and repetitive. Especially when you are dealing with a lot of files at once — like most projects do. TextMate puts you back in control, reduces the mental overhead, and turns manual work into something the computer does.

What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, photographer and author Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions, and his answer is influenced by his faith as well as by his scientific turn of mind: We can train our minds in habits of happiness. Interwoven with his talk are stunning photographs of the Himalayas and of his spiritual community.

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LR/Blog is a Lightroom 2 export plugin that allows you to export your images directly to your blog.

Where do ideas come from?

ring flash out of a recycled a food container

I chose three book-printing services, Blurb, Shutterfly and Sony ImageStation, and went through their layout and ordering process using a Mac OS 10.4. To judge the quality of other book printing services, I tested their layout and ordering systems, and either received samples or viewed actual books printed and bound by the companies.

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A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.

A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce.

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Are the days of Da Vinci dead? Is it possible to, at once, be a world-class painter, engineer, scientist, and more?

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This is cool - I don't know exactly what it may be used for but its cool. Just type anything after clipping.us/ like clipping.us/orange, paste your snippet, hit save. Then access it from any other computer using the same url. Afterwards you can delete it, temporarily lock it to your IP, or edit it.

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Use the mobile or iphone version of a site for the sidebar. Example: google.com/reader/i/

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New research in the diverse fields of epidemiology, molecular biology, biomechanics, and physiology is converging toward a startling conclusion: Sitting is a public-health risk.

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I can tell you this:  the ‘pay what you want’ idea can be suprisingly and dumbfoundingly profitable.

Better still, I can guarantee you that it will shake up your thinking about fees and pricing.  It will un-stick some old notions.  And heaven knows we need that; most of us are way too myopic, constipated and chickenshit about fees.

As an added bonus, you will most likely do the best work of your life, and deliver obscenely wonderful service to your clients at the same time. (Mainly because you’ll be too scared not to.)

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Some thoughts about time and a nice picture of a flower

Why I don't believe in the Noah and Ark story

When you know your dosha, you can read your monthly DoshaScope:

Ervin Laszlo: "I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist, I'm a possibilist... the future is to be created." Video: