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Charting the housing bubble

How to tie the perfect tie everytime.

USA Today gives us bad news for smart people.

Exuberance.

Annual monetary value of marriage = ~$105,000

Mindset Profile. Interestingly accurate for me.

Hurray for high gas prices!

Consequence.

Videos:

Vanishing Door Prank.

How not to use PowerPoint.

Advice.

Google's Corporate Philosophy.

The TIME 100: People who are transforming the world.

Explanation of flight.

Progress.

Video Saturday:

Britain's Got Talent - Amazing Clip

Penguin as a pet.

Weekend List:

1. Sustaining a blog is difficult and should be commended.

2. I will try to improve my posting frequency.

3. Semi-daily means twice a day. (Semi)Daily means partially daily. This site was partially daily for the first 2 months.

4. There are thousands of websites whose sole purpose is to link to other websites.

5. Blake's (Semi) Daily Links is like a coffee shop in Seattle.

Free Audiobooks to download.

Large Numbers.

100 Keyboard Shortcuts.

Limits.

Get paid to do people's stuff.

Vote on Time Mag's Most Influential People.

Persuasion.

The Singles Map.

What is your MINDSET? Great concept.

Function.

How much is a domain name worth?

Web 2.0 Traffic Watch List.

Collaboration.

Fun Friday Activity:

Go to Google.com, click on 'maps,' then click on 'get directions.' Type in 'New York, NY' as your starting point and 'Paris, France' as your destination. Once it computes your directions scroll down to No. 23.

21st Century Scrapbooking. I recommend the tutorial video.

FilmLoop. Photo storytelling.

ChangeThis. A new kind of media.

Rational.

SlideShare

A presentation about progress and global perspective.

Logic+Emotion

Fusion.

World Happiness Study. USA is 23rd in world.
and
the happiness map. (PDF)

Interesting philanthropy idea.

Solutions.

Sad, surprising, and enlightening Census Bureau release.

Write and let them sing it for you.

Clarity.

Foto Friday:

Dirty Car Art...until it rains.

Temporary.

Video Saturday:

Wolfpack or Tarheels?

Light Drawing Technology.

The Facebook Song.

Cute.

2-fer Tuesday--Sorry it's been a while:

50 things that will slow global warming if it is happening.

Seth Godin's (Business and marketing author) insightful blog.

Can you remember all 50 States in 10 minutes? Without cheating!

Squidoo. Explore this aggregation of online material.

Things that make this guy angry. Rated PG-13.

House of cards, more like a city.

Busyness.

28 days. Why February gets the shaft.

WordSource. A wannabe Wikipedia for a dictionary. Maybe it'll work.

Words.

Oscar nominees and winners.

25 gadgets that actually save money.

Crazy laws in America.
Don't sneeze on a city street in Asheville.

Sensibility.

Foto Friday:

Check out the border between Argentina and Brazil.

Strange houses around the world.

Scale.

11 common sense ways to sleep better.

The Onion has a prophecy from January 2001. Dubya.

Influence.

Video Saturday:

The Beat Box recipe.

Highlights from the best college football game I've ever seen.


Mesmerizing.

101 amazing facts about our planet.

An essay by Einstein.

40 tIPs too impruve you're grammer and punkshuation;

Brevity.

Foto Friday:

Hi-Res gallery.

Watermelon Carving. WOW!

Precision.

Story of "normal" savant. 1 of ~50 in the world.

and you can watch a 45 min video about him here.

"How to watch Internet TV" video contest. $25,000 grand prize.

Capitalize.

Foto Friday:

Best haircut ever.

Hand Art.

Precision.

7 Habits of highly effective people.

50 tips to improve your writing.

Improvement.

I've been out of town, but here's Music Monday:

The Decemberists

Alex Lloyd

The Flaming Lips.

Expression.

Brush up on your business knowledge.

Quotes from just about anyone. Not just cheesy ones either.

Old news, but Doritos wash up on beach.

Increase.

Video Saturday:

Don't Be That Guy.

Greatest Slam Dunk contest ever!

Wit.

Submit a file to the 20GB Time Capsule to be opened in 30 years.

DailyLit will email you books for FREE!

Choose this guy's name, but it'll cost ya.

Inventive.

Music Monday:

Thousands of music videos organized for dual sensory pleasure.

Expression.

Mythbusters revisited.

Cereality. A cereal restaurant. Seriously.

Kayak. Search 120+ sites for the cheapest flight.

Facts.

Video Saturday:

2 heads, one body. Conjoined twins.

Jim Mora just loves the Playoffs? Playoffs? Playoffs?

Vernon Robinson. North Carolina's finest. (Sarcasm)

Teamwork.

Open Culture. I love non-traditional free education.

How to think like a genius.

For men (maybe women too)
Is it better to shave with or against the grain?

Enlightenment.

P.S. Happy Birthday to John Kessler!

11 tips to boost your metabolism.

Origin of common phrases.

What does 200 calories look like?

Tips for living greener.

Meaning.