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Anxiety is not a joke. But what if a light-hearted laugh could make things a little bit brighter? British illustrator Gemma Correll draws comics inspired by her own anxieties and depression. She thinks that the best way to deal with this condition is to try to find humour in it.

Occasionally, LEVERAGE writer Albert Kim will regale us with stories of the horrible traditions and kabuki of his previous corporate life. ...

TOPIC: Fear of Your Own TODO List

I fly a fair amount. It’s a necessary evil, I guess. Road trips are for teenagers and very tolerant parents of small children. Trains are slow and expensive. Walking is usually out of the question if

Registering everything from fitness levels to sleep patterns, personal tracking devices satisfy our desire for self-knowledge. But when we hand control to our holograms, we may be surprised at what they want.

“What do you do for a living, Federico?”

Scott Forstall, then Apple’s iOS chief, stood onstage at the WWDC keynote last June and showed the audience a series of slides illustrating the many uses to which an iPad could be put. The one that resonated with me appeared for just a moment: It showed a boy with autism using an iPad.

I moved to San Francisco 9 months ago from the East Coast bastion of Boston. Despite having experience living in a major US city, I found quite a few surprises coming here. Some have been great, w…

Following my review of Letterpress, I sat down with Loren Brichter to chat about his latest effort, developing for iOS, other mobile platforms, and spitting into microphones. In reality, I was still in Italy and our interview was conducted on Skype, but Loren says the part about spitting was real. Federico: Hey Loren, thanks for

The man was as odd as his myth. Long-haired, barefoot and nature-loving, John Chapman traveled the Midwest in the early 1800s planting trees and creating orchards for future settlers.

I get a lot of notes from people who are starting out doing speaking gigs for money. It's something I've done a fair number of times, and I know how hard it can be to get it right. Not just at first,...

This is the first edition in a new regular series where I attempt to answer your questions about the film industry. We'll be taking a look at the box office, forgotten Hollywood landmarks, the marketing process and more. Sometimes I'll attempt to answer the question myself, and other times I will contact experts in the…

Ok, first off, it wasn’t a bomb; it was a bag of cash. But they didn’t know that, and I was too young and stupid to realize that dropping a brown paper bag in front of Planned Parenthood would maybe…

Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.

“Jane Allsop was abducted when she was fifteen, and nobody noticed.”

When you connect to the Internet, you might connect through a regular modem, a local-area network connection, a cable modem or a digital subscriber line (DSL) connection. DSL is a very high-speed connection that uses the same wires as a regular telephone line.

[](http://bit.ly/7Pz7Sd) 1. Remove your doors 2. Eat half of each pet 3. Sit on a big, thick book 4. Something something keyring...

This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.

There are times in one's life when one forgets one's hair was recently and only just partially "washed" by one's four-year-old—which four-year-old had casually improvised her ad hoc and...

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvi…

Merlin Dean Mann III (born November 26, 1966) is an author, speaker, and productivity consultant best known for Inbox Zero and the website 43 Folders. Merlin hosts the podcast Back to Work, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and produced by 5by5 Studios.

My good friend Mr. John Hodgman is a writer, famous minor television personality, and deranged millionaire. His new book, THAT...

Instapaper 4 Icon Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone The lede here is that my pal, Marco, has just released the stellar new 4.0 version of his Instapaper suite. This is fantastic news, and–as if you needed one more of

On Friday the Planet Money podcast posted an episode about me and my business model, focusing on the question of whether my scene is the future of music business or just a fluke. Alex Blumberg came to JoCo HQ a couple of weeks ago to interview me about how things work for me, how I got here, where the money comes from, etc. He then brought in Jacob Ganz and Frannie Kelley from NPR music blog Th...

I gotta start listening to this pod-cast. Because, I so need this advice. (srsly, brighteryellow, thanks a million for this and thanks for listening and caring in general)

1. Nothing wrecks your living room decor quite like a giant, rented hospital bed. The one my Dad laid in for a couple months in the fall of 1974 was an alarmingly stiff and sturdy affair, the frame of which was forged of impossibly heavy iron, with half

Twitter Profile Page Ideas My thumbnail ideas for useful information to display on an advanced, public Twitter profile page, per user. I.E.: Stats and heuristics to help me decide if this person will...

Everytime I pick up a new Moleskine, I’m reminded how much I freaking love these things. I got a fresh one the other day at Flax, so why not mention a few new Moleskine hacks?

Apple is famous for secrecy, with a code of silence that runs from management all the way down to its brick and mortar stores. One Apple Store employee decided to tell us what it's really like working at the vaunted retail outlets.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be. Because

Copyright © 2004 Ron Avitzur.

In a classic bit from an early Seinfeld, Jerry and Elaine are at the airport, trying to pick up the rental car that Jerry had reserved. As usual, things go poorly and get awkward fast: Seinfeld - "Reservations" JERRY: I don't understand...I

## My "old butcher" Arthur McA. Miller, Ph.D. *Mac*. Mac Miller. To me? A professor, poetry teacher, faculty advisor, thesis committee member, bon vivant, raconteur, when-I-needed-it...

Since my Google Tech Talk (previously) caught fire last month (it's gotten over 100,000 views so far), I've been receiving a lot of really nice email, comments, and questions about how I put my presentations together. I'm happy to oblige.

My response to the lady who published people's toots without license, permission, or compensation. You know the one. *** S— Candidly, I find it really hard to believe you regret this decision....

Merlin's essay on the web, attention, and the virtues of trying a little bit harder.

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The title sequences of Better Call Saul are different for each episode of a season, but show the same clips from season to season, with decreasing video quality as the series progresses. There are ten main title sequences, featuring various images from Jimmy McGill's future life as Saul Goodman, all presented with the same terrible image quality of early VHS or public access television and dominated by the show's stylized title logo. Some of these sequences feature archived footage seen in Break

Twitterrific is the friendly, award-winning Twitter client that's beautiful to look at, easy to use and full of elegant features.

Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED. This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a […]

Late yesterday, The Information reported that it had seen internal Twitter Slack communications confirming that the company had intentionally cut off third-party Twitter app access to its APIs. The shut-down, which happened Thursday night US time, hasn’t affected all apps and services that use the API but instead appears targeted at the most popular third-party

1. Plexiglass was first put around the ice rink after a 1979 brawl between the players and fans. The brawl broke out at the end of a Boston Bruins vs. New York Rangers game when a spectator grabbed a player’s stick and cut his face with a game program. Three Bruins players were fined $500 and suspended […]

Research has long shown that layoffs have a detrimental effect on individuals and on corporate performance. The short-term cost savings provided by a layoff are often overshadowed by bad publicity, loss of knowledge, weakened engagement, higher voluntary turnover, and lower innovation — all of which hurt profits in the long run. To make intelligent and humane staffing decisions in the current economic turmoil, leaders must understand what’s different about today’s larger social landscape. The authors also share strategies for a smarter approach to workforce change.