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the ability to delay gratification is one of the best indicators of future success. - yuanmai

不错比Hotspot Shield要好，因为HS要加个框框住，有些网站无法正常显示 - yuanmai

Glenn as recommended by Anna

Current thinking in media is that 10% of your uniques will pay for a fee. You'll lose traffic for a hybrid model but not much.

Google Wave is a new online communication and collaboration tool.

Phase2 Technology | Open Source. Open Minds.

谁进入谁还说不准啊，我觉得是flip flop....大家互相进。境界最高。。 好GAY啊。。。 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 天火:"天柱!......你进入我的身体了......啊!~~~" - yuanmai

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ProsePoint CMS | drupal.org

Salaries of top 50 paid people in SF Gov - #1 is a "Special Nurse" making $350,000 / yr

Local Search Marketing experts weigh in on the importance of 49 criteria that influence rankings in the Google and Yahoo Local search algorithms.

Hacker News comments on my post

directory of blogs from expats

The current Republican Party is trying to incorporate two inconsistent sets of beliefs: one is the support of competition and generally freer markets, and the other is the advocacy of interventionist policies on various social issues, such as gays in military, stem cell research, or in international affairs. Both these positions are often linked together as "conservative", but they involve contradictory views of government. I argued for a consistent conservative position that supports individual choices, and opposes big government.

Here’s the little secret they taught me at The Wall Street Journal: Whenever someone offers to tell you something “off the record,” they really want to tell you. So if you decline their conditions -- can’t attribute it, can’t use it -- they’re going to end up telling you anyway. They can’t resist. So it’s best to refuse the conditions and just be patient for a few minutes.

Also sounds weird, even pathetic, but I don't talk to women if I'm not drinking. I once heard a guy rationalize his own drinking and smoking marijuana by saying that it dumbed him down to the point where he could find women interesting. Sorry ladies, I know this is terribly offensive, but I almost agree. I love women, but on an affectionate / cute basis. I rarely find myself at all interested in women's ideas or opinions. So I have to drink to meet them, to carry conversations, and to establish affectionate relationships. If I'm going to succeed, I'm going to have to learn how to create substantive relationships with women without alcohol.

great tips on freelancing

Personality matters for success: Results showed that the magnitude of the effects of personality traits on mortality, divorce, and occupational attainment was indistinguishable from the effects of SES and cognitive ability on these outcomes. These results demonstrate the influence of personality traits on important life outcomes, highlight the need to more routinely incorporate measures of personality into quality of life surveys, and encourage further research about the developmental origins

the internet has suddenly brought us a much denser experience of interpersonal relationships and sociality that forces us to reshape the way we think of ourselves, as being potentially social at basically all times. We are perpetually present everywhere, with a ubiquity wireless connectivity supplies. The result of this thick intimacy, this perpetual sociality, is that we may have much more difficulty achieving harmony with the natural world, where presence is momentary and fragile, and sociality is limited to the distance our voices can travel.

He will venture out to an evangelical megachurch (and combine condescension with self-congratulation by bravely announcing to the world that these people are more human than you’d think). He will swing by and be brilliant in rambunctious Texas. He’ll be brilliant in the farm belt, brilliant in Las Vegas, reverential in Selma and profound in Malibu.

How pushing a thought out of consciousness can bring it back with a vengeance.

fascinating stuff on the minds of babies

Bob Iger: I read papers. I look at e-mail. I surf the Web. I watch a little TV, all at the same time. I call it my quiet time but I’m already multitasking. I love listening to music, so I’ll do that in the morning, too, when I’m exercising and watching the news

As tragedies go, not getting what you want is the straightforward kind, and getting it can be the ironic variety. But there is also the existential tragedy of not knowing what you want to begin with.

Mike Filsaime

Danny Baker show

one of life's greatest, saddest truths: that our most "memorable" occasions may elicit the fewest memories. It's probably not something most commencement speakers would say, but it's one of the first lessons of growing up. Another word for that is "graduating."

there was a great piece in The American about the importance of side projects—in other words, things you work on while juggling the responsibilities of full-time work—for fostering innovation and entrepreneurial success. In Success on the Side, Ben Casnocha describes some of the transformational products, like Scotch tape and Gmail, that were developed by non-executive workers tinkering on the side. Another example is the Boston Globe's popular Big Picture was started on the side by a software engineer. And in fact, companies like Google even factor in paid time (or at least used to, they may have nixed it in the downturn) where employers are encouraged to work on something beyond their job description, knowing that innovation does not come always come from the top.

Megan goes deep on the NYT reporter's story of personal bankruptcy - good example of type of investigation that only happens in blogosphere

STory of a guy writing about how he got back at his gf who cheated on him - mixed cocaine into her toothpaste so she failed drug test at her job, etc