Merlin Mann Lays It Out: Get Started!

hotdogsladies_tweetI con­tinue to find Mr. Mann’s talks on the busi­ness of doing cre­ative things thought-provoking and (yes, at times) inspir­ing.  He is of course talk­ing to a con­tem­po­rary gen­er­a­tion of what he refers to as knowledge-workers, so the audi­ence for this stuff is lim­ited.  But his […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from August 23rd through August 31st:

Type­dia: A Shared Ency­clo­pe­dia of Typefaces –

a lovely resource for font and fonty info. I just brushed up on my type anatomy lingo.

Finan­cial Soft­ware for Linux | freshmeat.net –

A super-concise run­down on what’s what with financial […]

Scientists find your aura, new agers not impressed

bodies_emit_lightA team of Japan­ese researchers have pho­tographed actual light par­ti­cles emit­ted from liv­ing humans.  Thus con­firm­ing through “sci­ence” what hip­pies have known all along.  These pho­tons dif­fer from infrared light, which every­one already knows about, and is caused by heat radi­a­tion.  We’re talk­ing about honest-to-goodness LIGHT.  […]

Mac tip: UN-minimize a window from the App Switcher

Yet another new one to me!  And such a use­ful lit­tle nugget too…  If you already have command-tab hard­wired into your mus­cle mem­ory then you may just love this tip for pulling min­i­mized win­dows out of the Dock.  Directly from the Appli­ca­tion Switcher (cmd + tab heads-up dis­play).  Using only the keyboard.