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Groovy t-shirts and bags.
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eGullet offers online courses through their forums. Looks interesting.
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Something I don’t do enough of.
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Looks great, but how the heck would you mow them?
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Action figures and accessories based on Totoro and other Miyazaki characters. Tres cool!
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A website for my sister’s best friend.
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Some of the coolest screensavers I’ve seen.
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Summertime’s coming, and these sound great and so easy to make.
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Absolutely fab weather tracker. Non-invasive, thorough and it allows you to track more than one city’s weather.
Work is spiralling up into high tension with our big yearly event happening next week. (NEXT WEEK!) So, to focus and get things done, I’ve slapped on my headphones and put on
Subliminal Sandwich by Meat Beat Manifesto. It’s loud and bizarre and trance-y, and it is actually helping me keep an intense focus.
When I am focusing that is. The irony is not lost on my that I’ve chosen to put my work aside to write about focus here.
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Not as cheesey as it sounds. I like the part where the author says to make goals that are in line with what you love and not in line with what you think others would be impressed by.
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Declare to the universe your intention and simply say, “Make it so.” (I can’t help but imagine that I’m Picard and the universe is “Number One.”)
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Amazing fractal images.
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I *love* quotes. This site gets extra cool points for offering RSS feeds for their quote pages.
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Tongue-in-cheek and funny. A good kick in the butt when you get too self-piteous.
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The article on ADT is interesting, but what I really like is Merlin’s mindfulness exercise. He has the ability to take what’s been written about many, many times before and put it into fresh, relatable, FUN terms.
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wow.
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Compare and contrast of Web 2.0 designs.
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I’m going to take a business trip soon, and this will come in handy.
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I was inspired to look this up after finishing “Girl with a Pearl Earring.”
This took me only a week to read, a record for me nowadays.
The first third of this book - Susie’s rape and death, the crumbling of her family, Mr. Harvey’s seeming invincibility - was almost too much for me. I wanted to put it down because it hurt too much to read. But I remembered the kind British lady returning the book to my pile saying she had too many copies and urging me to stick with it, so I did. It was so worth it.
The language is beautiful and wistful. It sometimes gets too ambitious with the tender poetics and twisty metaphors, but I forgave it. The overall theme of letting go and acceptance in the face of tragedy is something I’ve long been interested in cultivating for myself and just hopeful in seeing more in the world. Alice Sebold captured these themes so sweetly and lovingly, that I felt her words actually healing some old wounds I’ve carried around for a long time.