Interesting places I’ve come across in the last week
15 Things You Can Do With RSS
“Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly. Here are my favourites (please let me know if there are better services and I’ll update). I use this list to convince people to start using an RSS feed reader. There’s more to RSS than just weblog syndication and news aggregation…”
“To be creative, new neural pathways need to be constructed by, well, being creative. Kraft suggests four steps for doing that:
* Wonderment: Try to retain a spirit of discovery, a childlike curiousity about the world. And question understandings that others consider obvious
* Motivation: As soon as a spark of interest arises in something, follow it
* Intellectual courage: Strive to think outside accepted principles and habitual perspectives such as “We’ve always done it that way.”
* Relaxation: Take the time to day dream and ponder, because that is often when the best ideas arise. Look for ways to relax and consciously put the ideas into practice….”
Music on the internet
Not all musicians support the current crackdown on Internet file sharing. Some give their music away for free, trading some record sales in the hopes that they’ll get more exposure from offering the downloads.
O’Reilley’s All-available-hacks
“This is a complete list of the hacks that are available online. The hacks with a book-cover icon are sample hacks from that book. The hacks with no icon are reader-contributed hacks…”
Free Mind – free mind mapping software
“FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow link” operations.
So you want to write a completely new metaphysics? Why don’t you use FreeMind?…”
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