Yak Shaving -- [MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.] Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.
Word Tip -- You’re probably already familiar with searching for and replacing words, but did you know that you can search for and replace, say, one font for another, or bold formatting instead of underlining? To do so, choose Replace from the Edit menu, then click More. At the bottom, choose the Format button to replace fonts, character formatting, etc. (HT: Web Worker Daily)
Online Tool -- Webapp Preezo is a stripped-down version of PowerPoint right inside your web browser. Create, edit, collaborate on and permalink slideshows at Preezo, which isn't as featureful as PowerPoint proper but has all the essential tools you need to create a full-on presentation minus desktop software. (HT: Lifehacker)
HowTo -- Turn a pencil into an emergency light source
via videosift.com
Firefox Tip -- You can skip directly to a web site's subpages without typing the protocol or top level domain. For example, type apple/trailers into the Firefox address bar and press Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter for Mac users). Firefox will fill in the http://www and .com in all the right places and zip you right along to Apple's Trailers section of the site. (HT: Lifehacker)
See also: The Yak Shaving Razor Archives
Have a useful recommendation for making life more pleasant? Send them to me at jpcarter[at]evangelicaloutpost.com.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, more accurately)... that "Word Tip" reminded me that I am supposed to be catching up on my many incompletes (for class), rather than spending all this time in the Blogosphere.
But that is easier said than done. At least I am getting a little of my blog backlog cleared tonight.
Five years later, full bikini waxing is standard practice for the fashion- conscious in North America. However, there is now a movement that claims Brazilian waxing, among other things, is evidence of a wider "pornification" of North American society. New York journalist and author Ariel Levy describes this phenomenon in her book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (which I'm not terribly interested in reading because it seems slightly overdone). Her work generated significant buzz...
Merhabalar arkadaşlar. Dün sıkıntı sonucu blogspot açmıştım, hoşuma gitmedi wp açalım dedik. Cc ile günaha girmeme ve host domain gibi şeylerle ugraşmamak için böyle hazır bi blog: ) Her neyse vatana millete hayırlı ola..