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• Take Advantage of Singletasking When Possible, Get More Done – Multitasking – Lifehacker – Fact is, if we're being honest with ourselves, I think we would all admit to being most productive during those times when we shut everything else off and focus on a single task. We've covered the multitasking-isn't-always-what-it's-cracked-up-to-be angle plenty of times in the past, but it's worth the occasional reminder every now and then, especially from a trusted voice.
• SNAP: Stanford Network Analysis Project – SNAP is a general purpose network analysis and graph mining library. It is written in C++ and easily scales to massive networks with hundreds of millions of nodes, and billions of edges. It efficiently manipulates large graphs, calculates structural properties, generates regular and random graphs, and supports attributes on nodes and edges.
• CASOS: Home | CASOS – CASOS brings together computer science, dynamic network analysis and the empirical study of complex socio-technical systems. Computational and social network techniques are combined to develop a better understanding of the fundamental principles of organizing, coordinating, managing and destabilizing systems of intelligent adaptive agents (human and artificial) engaged in real tasks at the team, organizational or social level.
• Alice.org – Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web.
• Prescriptions for Drafting Assertable Claims – Patent Law Blog (Patently-O) – Many patent cases are won and lost on claim drafting issues. In the recent Netcraft case, for instance, the claimed included the step of "providing a communications link through equipment of the third party."

• Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity — The Endeavour – The romantic image of an über-programmer is someone who fires up Emacs, types like a machine gun, and delivers a flawless final product from scratch. A more accurate image would be someone who stares quietly into space for a few minutes and then says “Hmm. I think I’ve seen something like this before.”
• Lady, That’s My Skull: The False Negative – The False Negative manifests in any number of ways with one of the most common being the the false error tone
• Snake oil? Scientific evidence for health supplements | Information Is Beautiful – beautifuk infographic on evidence/health supplements
• Fast Workouts That Really Work! on Yahoo! Health – You can get an hour's worth of fitness and calorie burning in 20 short minutes.
• Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools – Data Recovery – Lifehacker – The best way to recover from unexpected data loss is to be properly prepared. With one of the following tools on hand, you'll always be ready to save your data from the Reaper.
• focus booster – the pomodoro technique – a Pomodoro-centered timer app, available as a free webapp or Adobe Air download, to help you time and manage your own "Pomodoros."
• The Pomodoro Technique Fights Deadline Anxiety with a Timer – Productivity – Lifehacker – Francesco Cirillo crafted the Pomodoro Technique in 1992, as a personal system to get more studying done. He tweaked it a bit and now offers a book, available as a free PDF download or as a traditional bound purchase, that explains it a bit further. Cirillo, however, doesn't bury the basic strategy in his book, but offers it up freely:
• BitTorrent’s Future: DHT, PEX, and Magnet Links Explained – File Sharing – Lifehacker – In an attempt to clear some of the mystique surrounding DHT, PEX and Magnet links we will walk through all three briefly, hoping to assure those who've become confused earlier this week.
• Case Study: Freescale Netbook Design at SCAD, by Dave Malouf – Core77 – Finally, a group of students investigated the physical ergonomics within this age group, especially concerning the use of smaller devices. They discovered that a conventional small clamshell laptop is most comfortably used lying down in bed with the device on the thigh when the knees are kept up.
• TimeGT | Life and Task Management Software, Getting Things Done (GTD) app – Handbrake led by a healthy margin and took home 34% of the vote and with good reason. It's free, cross-platform, and has grown easier to use with each new release.
• Best DVD-Ripping Tool: Handbrake – dvd ripping – Lifehacker – Handbrake led by a healthy margin and took home 34% of the vote and with good reason. It's free, cross-platform, and has grown easier to use with each new release.
• Project SIKULI – If it has a GUI, you can probably use it with Sikuli. Sikuli is an open source scripting app that uses a combination of very simple commands like click, type, and wait, and screenshots to tell Sikuli what to manipulate. There's no internal API support, it just searches the screen for the image in the screenshot—meaning you can use it with pretty much anything. Seriously, the world is your oyster.
• Look! Store Your Books in the Rafters | Apartment Therapy Los Angeles – You can never have enough storage space, especially if you're a book lover. This clever hack turns the unused space between rafters into book shelves.

• Monopoly Monopoly – Charles Darrow – Parker Brothers most likely discovered the existence of other Monopoly games after buying the patent from Darrow, but by that time, it was evident that the game was going to be a huge success.
• Mind – New Research Focuses on the Power of Physical Contact – NYTimes.com – Momentary touches, they say — whether an exuberant high five, a warm hand on the shoulder, or a creepy touch to the arm — can communicate an even wider range of emotion than gestures or expressions, and sometimes do so more quickly and accurately than words.
• List of Pleadings Which Must Be Verified (Update #1) « Law Innovations (Philippines) – ndeed, the verification requirement has been the cause for minor paranoia among lawyers in the Philippines, and the prudential rule has emerged that whenever in doubt, verify.
• San Francisco’s Answer to Westboro Baptist Church – Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest in front of Twitter’s San Francisco office on Thursday, but found themselves severely outnumbered by a crowd of absurdist pranksters, including guest blogger EDW Lynch above.
• Slashdot Developers Story | Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta – oy, new version of ruby on rails in the pipeline

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• pomodoro timer – If you’re using the Pomodoro Technique (a method that uses a timer to help improve concentration and focus that Meryl wrote about recently) you might like to check out Tomatoi.st, a simple but nicely designed web app that can time your pomodoros and your breaks.
• The Pomodoro Technique™ – The Pomodoro Technique™ is a way to get most out of time management. Turn into valuable ally accomplish what we want do and chart continuous improvement in it lifehacks design management productivity 
• Warren Ellis: Information consumption – How much information do you eat? Some guy from my ISP phoned me earlier — thereby buggering the afternoon's work, and therein lies a link — to ask nicely if they could upgrade my broadband and take over my landline telephone provision for a small increase in my monthly fee. He then asked me something that actually stopped me dead for a moment. He asked me how much I download, on average. And I found that I had no idea.
• History is Comedy – Boing Boing – Our understanding of history is "based on a true story"
• I, Virus – or:humans…are a disease…

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