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‘This one runs on fat & saves you money’ by Peter Drew of Adelaide (photo by carltonreid).

I previously posted this image more than three years ago, shortly after I started commuting to work by bike. It represents one of the many reasons I ride to work, which I will continue to do for the foreseeable future.

Slob vs. Sharp (by Jim Benton)

Web comments are awful. Most comment threads are complete garbage. They are full of the worst of what people say and think. But you knew that already.

I recently installed Steven Frank’s Shutup.css extension to shut down the cesspool of Internet comments. Shutup.css hides the comments sections on most popular websites. I’ve only had it for a few days, but it’s already making the web a much happier place.

Your education will quickly become outdated if you stop learning. Don’t let the years of your life spent in the classroom and the thousands of tuition dollars you (or your parents) spent go to waste. Never stop learning.

One of the best parts of being an adult is that you get to spend your time learning the subjects and skills that interest you. The days of being stuck working through someone else’s curriculum, someone else’s agenda are over. In school, your teachers would decide what you should worry about and what you need to know to pass the test. As an adult, you decide what to worry about. And you can choose to spend your time worrying about more interesting things.

Knowing it’s coming doesn’t make this scene any less shocking.

I received the note above in my email today from Tumblr and had to share it. It’s amazing to think I’ve run this site for that long. I let the 1,000th post come and go with little fanfare but feel I should mark this milestone with more than three short sentences.

From the beginning, this site has been a side project, a hobby that would get bursts of attention and then months of neglect. I learned the basics of HTML and CSS from working on this site, and, more recently, it served as a sandbox for learning responsive web design, typography, JavaScript, and a number of other web technologies. It’s been a valuable hobby, teaching me skills I’ve used in all my jobs over the last four years.

How America’s Marriage Crisis Makes Income Inequality So Much Worse

How Would We Report on the Government Shutdown if It Were Happening in Another Country?

4 Rules to Make Star Wars Great Again (by Sincerely Truman)

Non-Chemical Warfare: Violence Continues in Syria

By Oliver Reichenstein

Anatomy of a bicycle - anthonyoram

IBM Smarter Enterprise - U.S. Open Case Study - United States

via Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows

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](http://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-the-united-states-lives-in-these-counties-2013-9) Map via Census/Business Insider

People like to live live near other people. Out of the 3,000+ counties in the United States, 146 contain half the population. So much for the 80/20 rule. It doesn’t seem to apply to population distribution.

Creating new accounts for web services is easy. Getting rid of those accounts…not so much.

JustDelete.Me offers an expansive directory of links to pages where you can delete your accounts from various websites and services. In addition to pointing you to the pages, it also rates each service by the level of effort required to delete the account.

Maintaining inbox zero is like a game of whack-a-mole. For every email deleted, organized, or responded to, another one pops up in its place. However, that only happens if your email is always open. By just opening up email and responding to it at set times during the day, you can process messages in batches and be much more productive. When you finish, close your email, and get to work.

I don’t have to check email as much these days as I have in the past, but I check it anyway if it’s open. I check it even when there’s nothing new in there. Ideally, there could be a notification when the inbox has 10 new items, or email could launch automatically two hours from the time I closed it.

Is this a deceptive or just poorly worded error message? Also the ‘Visit Website’ link is broken. I’m pretty sure there’s some way to get Twitter working on my phone. The other apps at the bottom of the page work just fine.

Twitter and Facebook don’t have to play nice together, but if Facebook is going to show Twitter in its App Store, it should probably just let Twitter tell its users if if works on my phone or not. Getting into the habit of telling your users what your competitors are capable of is often bound to make you look like you don’t know what you’re talking about.

This isn’t the right bike for my current riding habits, but it would be very cool to zip around town on one of these at night. The Pure Fix Glow Bike has a clean simple look to it during the day, but lights up with an alien-green glow in the dark.

The bike is coated with a solar-activated paint that absorbs sunlight during the day and glows at night. They say an hour of sunlight will give an hour of glow, so you’d have to park it in the sun during the day if you’re planning a night ride.