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Last Update: Tue Jun 10 05:16:31 2008

+ MobileMe: .Mac's iPhone-Friendly Replacement + Apple - MobileMe There’s lots to digest from today’s WWDC Stevenote — not least of [...] particular. Kudos, team. An iPhone that makes MobileMe easy and transparent to use is a big win all around. (N.B.: as you might expe

+ Free Books for your Amazon Kindle + My pick of the week on the latest episode of MacBreak Weekly wasn’t so much my new Kindle (which I do like a lot), [...] Ebooks Online . The post contains a large collection of links that can help fill your reader in no time.

+ 43f Links for 2008-06-01 + Best. Paper. Ever. - Miss Conduct’s Blog - Advice column with manners and etiquette information - Boston.com - [...] my favorite time- and money-saving tips for a future post) 8 fonts you probably don’t use in css, but should - Person

+ Bruce Lee: Productivity Dragon + The aptly named "Positivity Blog" recently had a rather compelling overview of Bruce Lee, Productivity Guru . Like [...] take. And the more you think, the harder it gets to act. I'm not going to argue with that.

+ Links and Resources for the Chronically Disorganized + N S G C D | Home I’m still in a de-cluttering mode these days (more on that soon), so I was intrigued by [...] pieces and avoid “all or nothing” thinking. Good stuff. The Now Habit , anyone?

+ James Fallows on GTD apps + Bright side #5: interesting GTD software, including for Mac The Atlantic writer (and recent Mac convert) James [...] yourself to obsess over tools to the exclusion of actually completing tasks . This is about action .

+ Email Insanity & the 0.001 Challenge + Via a Toot by Jeff Atwood comes this thoughtful post by Tantek Çelik on how email is no longer working for him. [...] of people — whom you may or may not even know — all at absolutely no cost to you. There is also no prohibition or

+ Clutter War II: Attack of the Giant Baby + As of next Sunday, our lovely daughter will have been with our houshold for six months (Happy Half-Birthday, Eleanor ). [...] with re-reading It’s All Too Much ( isbn.nu | library search ). As I’ve said before, this is a fantastic

+ MacBreak Weekly 85: Wombats, Pystar, NBC's Buggy Whips, Mitchell & Webb, and hacking Time Machine + MacBreak Weekly 85: You Look Mac Today Hosts: Leo Laporte , Merlin Mann , and Andy Ihnatko [...] all be returning from our various conferences and travels with the full crew for taping on the week after.

+ Know your smoke + Is your car smoking from the exhaust pipe? Reader wemerson was kind enough to correct me on my metaphor in the [...] straw was used to help create the black smoke, but a number of “false alarms” in past conclaves have brought about

+ Whining, Blue Smoke & the Mechanics of Getting Unstuck + I’ve been working on a bunch of ( non - 43 Folders - related ) stuff lately, but I started feeling that [...] whiner . So it’s worthwhile to be mindful about the extent to which your internal monologue is becoming personally insuffera

+ Topless meetings for team focus? + When it’s hard to stay focused, try going ‘topless’ to meetings - San Jose Mercury News [...] it work for you? Anybody tried it and given up? How did the meetings change without the toys being on?

+ Creative Constraints: Going to Jail to Get Free + A Brief Message: No Resistance Is Futile Paul Ford has been posting six-word Twitter updates for a few [...] the Twoosh.) The Question to You Got a good example of a creative constraint at work?

+ MBW 81: Throbbers, excess moisture, Johnson Rods, and Male Answer Syndrome + MacBreak Weekly 81: Click the Throbber Hosts: Leo Laporte , Merlin Mann , Andy Ihnatko , and Alex [...] Name is Jonas.” Weezer - “My Name is Jonas”

+ Vintage logo book scans + Vintage Logos - a photoset on Flickr Wow, this is fun for you design and identity nerds — 120 [...] bites the dust ,” and “ CBS, 2007 .” [via: Metafilter ]