The Bangus Ultimatum

These are my links for May 4th through May 5th:

• Develop Perfect Memory With the Memory Palace Technique – The Memory Palace is one of the most powerful memory techniques I know. It’s not only effective, but also fun to use — and not hard to learn at all.
• Crapware: Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software – It may be the year 2008, but a whole lot of sucktacular software still rears its ugly head on PC's everywhere, even when better-behaved options are freely available. Whether it's molasses-slow bloatware, shameless adware, anemic default apps, or "Your tri
• Delay the messages you send from Microsoft Outlook | Workers’ Edge – a productivity blog from Dennis O’Reilly – CNET Blogs – We all react inappropriately on occasion, but some of us (myself included) have a chronic case of e-mail foot-in-mouth disease. I've managed to stay on the good side of my boss since I enforced a cooling-off period before any mail addressed to him actuall
• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Memory Hacks – Writing things down, on paper or on-screen, is the best way to make sure you remember important info and tasks, but sometimes you've got to rely on your plain old brain to keep essential data sorted and handy. Whether it's a client's name, a password or c
• 43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders – These are posts from a special 43 Folders series looking at the skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your email inbox — and then keep it that way. You can visit each of the posts by clicking the title.
• Geek to Live: Choose (and remember) great passwords – Everywhere you turn you've got to come up with a password to register for something or another. Whether it's the dozens of web sites that require you log in to use them, or your ATM card PIN, or your wireless network login, how do you decide on a new pass
• Warren Ellis » IRON MAN: This One Was Mine – movie version partly based on warren ellis' rendition (EXTREMIs, which i loved) better find a way to watch this movie soon
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | ‘Sex pest’ seal attacks penguin – The bizarre event took place on a beach on Marion Island, a sub-Antarctic island that is home to both fur seals and king penguins.
• Is Lessig’s Free Culture just a modern Das Kopyright? – Now, the Progress and Freedom Foundation is stirring dull roots with spring rain, unleashing a fresh attack on Lessig's four-year-old book Free Culture in a paper released Monday by senior fellow Thomas Sydnor.

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