Things that help me on different occasions:
1. Put music on that gets me in a work zone. For me it's instrumental non-distracting stuff. If you play this stuff and force yourself to work the first few times, the music itself will help get you back... [
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Bank Notes - a collection of bank robbery notes
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"the fact that it's Mario, and I hate Mario."
That is the most dismissive, inaccurate comment on a videogame I've ever read, so congratulations. I loved Portal, but this is better. There isn't a wasted pixel. Everything is there for a... [
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2 months ago
The pictures and sketches of JRR Tolkien
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Kemp Folds: Ross Kemp's Face, Folded
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4 months ago
The Present Sound of London
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London Shop Fronts
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6 months ago
Can I just say that a significant change to the revenue model of a very significant web service is definitely post-worthy? Can anyone saying that isn't please go back and skim read a couple of weeks' worth of posts from Metafilter year one?... [
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7 months ago
Some articles about Blade Runner
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9 months ago
I Hardly Know Her - an "alternative way to view Flickr photostreams"
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10 months ago
Yeah, I take back the balancey piles bit, I think. I think the inferno levels were probably designed first, as the puzzles, and then made easier for the harmony mode - generally with the removal of pieces. I haven't played right through yet, but my... [
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10 months ago
A survey of London's remaining professional darkrooms
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10 months ago
"The robots.txt file on the newly-updated White House website contains two lines:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Under the Bush administration, the list of disallowed assets grew to 2,319."
Via Matt Langer's tumblr.... [
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There are lots of nice people out there. They may not all be right for you, but that doesn't mean they fall to live up to bullshit criteria lists. I suspect that, yes, you do need to make changes to your attitudes to dating and women, but I don't... [
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11 months ago
Great question! It happens to me frequently, and happens more when I'm typing quickly or conversationally. Spellchecks clearly wouldn't highlight these areas so I find myself proofreading rather more than I'd like. I have friends who don't have this... [
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Krrrlson's last point isn't without merit. This thread didn't have to go quite the way it did. It was a justified call-out on two decisions that didn't seem to be joined up. Yes he's obviously angry about it, but that doesn't mean he's talking... [
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"I vote no more I/P threads at all. It's like abortion. You cannot have a civil discussion on this topic, because people who debate it seem to internalize the approaches of Hamas and the IDF".
Fuck that. It's an incredilby important... [
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11 months ago
"Wonder how he'd do *without* the M16 and body armor. Pussy."
Yeah. He could probably kick the shit out of you. [
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11 months ago
"Trailers have nothing to do with it."
And that, if anything, is the thrust of this article. It doesn't attempt to link her background as a hunter to the reasons she did what she did. Take the line about the hunters welcome sign at face... [
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11 months ago
"The minor difference between AAC and MP3 will never drive a format change."
No, but by far the biggest vendor of music in the universe ever selling metric arseloads of AACs to everyone in the world ever might... ...is the point I guess... [
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11 months ago
"And hasn't anybody bothered to tell her that she can go out, be in the woods, think and enjoy the nature without shooting the crap out of the local fauna?"
It made me wonder how the cost of a gun compares to the cost of an SLR. How much... [
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11 months ago
"11: Return Of The Jedi (1983) - 'There's too many of them!'"
More exciting and better looking than any space moment in the Star Wars prequels. This is an amazing moment. I think I heard once that the most expensive few seconds of film... [
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