a shameful waste of madhouse time

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The list is all right, but unfortunately, ecto and marsedit both cost money.

14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers via kwout

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this is just some of the stuff i am reading now when i ought to be sleeping…hoping that this will somehow prove useful down the line when i get back to really being concerned about making a living.

Becoming a Freelance Web Worker: Part 1, Why You Should Do It - FreelanceSwitch [...]

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Fuck. But the advice is pretty good, it means you have to use the various types of cognitive and thinking skills that you have. The problem is that if you buy Jung’s whole typology, that means that we are going to be skewed towards those ways of thinking that match our innate abilities and tendencies. [...]

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i just downloaded Songbird and i think it’s pretty cool…interface is pretty easy to use and with the various search engines you can find mp3s
really easily…and then it lists them on the bottom, allowing you to download whatever you want. sweet.
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going home

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a picture that i took today of a migrant worker, presumably going home for Chinese new year. my favorite of the batch.

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MacBook Anorexic (pic) | MakeUseOf.com
i thought this was pretty funny…but i guess not that funny for anorexic people, and especially anorexic people that use macs.
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They make it sound pretty bad (which is probably because it IS that bad)–comparable to the environmental conditions that produced the Dust Bowl in the US in the 1930s.

Circle of Blue: Reign of Sand via kwout

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Working In Close | 43 Folders
This is a blog post on 43 folders about productivity/creativity, etc, and in this case, about the habits of the artist Chuck Close. It’s interesting–he had to force a lifehack because, according to him, he’s a lazy slob, and thus his style of painting somehow managed to circumvent that. [...]

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Tags: hiv, blood, artist, paintings, aids, disease, activism, US, art, culture

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