…since I unloaded a whole ton of links in one go. Enjoy.
* “TNEF’s Enough”:http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/index.html lets you open attachments sent by Microsoft Outlook on a Mac
* ??Scott Berkun??: “How to Run a Brainstorming Meeting”:http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay34.htm. Scott’s site has been increasingly useful to me, lately. His book, The Art of Project Management, is also quite good.
* ??PBS??: “Street Fight”:http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/streetfight/. This documentary on PBS tells the tale of Cory Booker, an upstart Newark politician looking to unseat 6^th^ term mayor Sharpe James. It was actually a bit creepy: Newark politics are not the cleanest, and it was amazing to watch as Booker’s campaign was thwarted by whatever means possible. It’s unclear if James will be running again next year as incumbent, but you can be that Booker will have learned from a lot of his mistakes from the 2002 campaign.
* The “Christian Classics Ethereal Library”:http://ccel.org/index/mp3.html is offering free MP3s of some classic Christian writings such as Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground. Of course, to make downloading these files anything near reasonable (they don’t offer FTP downloads), you’ll want to flex your “curl muscles”:http://www.hmug.org/man/1/curl.php.
* ??Rands??: “Use Your Misery”:http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2005/04/17/use_your_misery.html. Among my favorite quotes: Similar to getting starting procrastination, ‘I’m a unique voice’ procrastination can be deal killer. If you believe that you must be completely original in whatever your creative endeavor is, you will never ever finish. Like it or not, you’re going to steal.
* “Newsfire”:http://www.newsfirerss.com/: beautiful, but I like “NetNewsWire”:http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ better
* “Stylegala”:http://www.stylegala.com/ is an awesome web design reference (and I wonder if its recent existence is the reason “these guys”:http://alistapart.com/ redesigned). I also found this “incredibly designed site”:http://web.burza.hr/en/ via Stylegala.
* ??InterVarsity??: “Following Christ”:http://www.intervarsity.org/followingchrist/audio/. This was a conference that IV hosted for young professionals three years ago. I was still in college at the time, so it was very encouraging to see that they posted their 2002-equivalent of a podcast. While there are a few quality issues with the MP3s, the ones of talks by ??Vinoth Ramachandra?? will totally rock your world. High quality stuff that deserves a much longer blog later.
* Here’s a “crib sheet”:http://www.minezone.org/wiki/MVance/GettingThingsDone for Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. I’ve been really into GTD, lately (along with “a lot of other bloggers”:http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/getting-hicks-done), finding that ??David Allen??’s model for personal productivity is very helpful, even if I don’t follow it exactly.
* I’ve been calling my wife Schmoo for well over a year now, only come to find out that there really was “such a thing as a Schmoo”:http://www.lil-abner.com/shmoo.html (sort of)
* ??Fast Company??: ” Can’t We All Just Get Along?”:http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/94/artifact.html Fast Company demystifies the marks on all those electric gadgets we consume. “Darin”:http://www.peznet.net asked me four or five years ago if I knew what the “CE” meant on the backs of these devices. Now we know.
* ??St. Petersburg Times??: “The Newark You Never Knew”:http://www.saintpetersburgtimes.com/2004/05/02/Travel/The_Newark_you_never_.shtml. That picture at the top of the article is the bakery where I get coffee most mornings.
