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Great post by Adrian Trenholm (link via Lifehacker). A snippet: I wanted to take email which I didn’t want to deal with straight away, remove it from my inbox, then have it automatically reappear in my inbox when I was ready to work on it. Having read Merlin Mann’s email diet, I hit on the…

The other day, taking the train home from work, the guy behind me was ringtone shopping the entire trip. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard the hip-hop chart-toppers on a Motorola phone in an otherwise quiet train car. Ironically, when his phone finally did ring, it was obvious that he hadn’t actually bought any of…

Sony billboard in NYC Originally uploaded by rklau. Originally seen at “HuffingtonPost”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/jonah-peretti/sony-psp-powered-by-micro_1398.html.

Cole Francis is house hunting and concluded that: Our final synopsis is that there are many wonderful subdivisions in Naperville, including the thriving downtown area. We found both train stations in the city, including one in the heart of downtown Naperville and one farther out towards Aurora, which should give you an idea of Naperville’s…

I haven’t looked into this enough to know all the details, but it’s interesting that the Naperville library system’s announcement that it will be taking biometric info to let patrons access the Internet is on the front page of Slashdot right now. Woot.

Ed Cone reports remorsefully: “This is depressing that … the blogger in my dream is Jarvis rather than “Wonkette”:http://www.wonkette.com/.”

This is a new one to me, and I like the suggestion: “Make original mistakes.”  Someone (Brad? Wendy? I can’t remember) said this in a board meeting about a month ago. I wrote it down on a piece of paper and have been carrying it around with me ever since. The concept is right on and meaningful no…

Marriott Marquis is the first to have this elevator… Originally uploaded by rklau. Too funny. Too freaking funny.

The joys of flying to O’Hare Originally uploaded by rklau. You just gotta hate when you see comments like this on the departure board… Amazingly, we made it out only a few minutes delayed, and arrived at O’Hare without incident. We were lucky.

I’m in New York at the Syndicate Conference in New York today (and tomorrow), and have had a terrific time finally meeting so many people who I’ve “known” for years. (Finally got to meet Scoble!) I’m too exhausted to post a full recap of the day’s events, other than to note that I hope I…