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PASWOs behind the break. The public stuff is good, clean fun.

Break Free of the Tyranny of the Clock

Zen Habits reminds us of simpler pleasures: do less. Take naps. Ignore the clock, your ancestors didn't evolve to live with one, they evolved to live with the sun and the rain, the day and the night. Good stuff here.

How We Wreck Our feet With Every Step

My physical therapist gave me the advice to wear shoes as little as possible, saying "You walk wrong. It's the shoes. Our feet aren't built to wear shoes." This article echoes what she said pretty convincingly: We spent the first 125,000 years of existence shoeless, and that's what our feet have evolved to do: walk barefoot.

All 120 Crayola Colors, With Color Codes

Pretty! Useful! Geeky!

Five More Principles of Effective Web Design

Color experimentation, Marketing patterns, Clarity, User Experience: the stuff we're supposed to think about when we're also thinking about concepts, components, and composition, or contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity.

How users seek information

Four different kinds of users and the way they navigate your website, and how to meet the needs of those users.

Kinda Sorta Good News

Rush calls on Republicans his listeners to riot in November

Rush Limbaugh "dreams" that his listeners would take up the challenge of making sure that America sees riots at the Democratic National Convention, to provide a contrast with Republicans: "We don't riot. We don't burn our cars. We don't burn down our houses. We don't kill our children. We don't do half the things the American left does." Yeah, because the gods know that Seattle, a pretty damned lefty town, is full of burned-out cars, burned-out houses, and dead children. (hat tip to Jay Lake)

American Family Association says Gay-Straight Alliances are "Illegal."

Matt Staver goes for the merely dumb by repeating ancient lies about the Day of Silence ^[?] about it's supposed "disruptiveness" (in fact, students are actively encouraged to be non-disruptive and to participate in class as needed), but he really reaches for teh stoopid when he argues that by allowing students to participate in organized events like the DoS schools are breaking the law. He argues that because half the states require abstinenence-only education, discussing homosexuality is discussing sex, which is not abstinence, and, uh... Man, I'm not sure where he's going with that. (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

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Break Free of the Tyranny of the Clock

Okay, but first I'm going to have to break free of the tyranny of work, money, social expectations, and daylight.

I for one, have a tendency towards keeping 25 hour days if I let it. It doesn't work very well.