Link Harvest


6/29/2004
Ahead of the curve

Hah! I’ve been using one of these for three years!

posted by: Bren

Painted rocks

Amazing… [via]

posted by: Bren

Harpoon in face

oof

posted by: Bren

Make Money on eBay

A whole blog about ebay business

posted by: Bren

Gmail Notifier

Sweet little toolbar utility

posted by: Bren

Cars in computers

So how do you reboot?

posted by: BossHogg

Tufte graphics

This is older, but still good. Three panels of cartoons related to Tufte seminars

posted by: Bren

Free WIRED subscription

Get it quick, don’t know how long this’ll last–they don’t even want an email!

posted by: Bren

Cold Turkey

Kurt Vonnegut essay on fossil fuel

posted by: Bren

F-911 cartoons

Funny stuff from both sides of the fence

posted by: Bren

Red Rock Eater Digest

Many good links in the latest RRE

posted by: Bren

SMS on speed

Whoa.

posted by: BossHogg

Computer Myths?

Not sure if I agree with all of their assessments, but an interesting read none-the-less.

posted by: BossHogg

6/28/2004
mikelikebike

The exec. director of the Seattle chapter of the Surfrider foundation is riding his bike a loooong way for charity.

posted by: Bren

Liars Club

This totally sucks.

posted by: Bren

F-911 fact check

Seems like a pretty balanced fact check

posted by: Bren

Reverse Dictionary

Enter a phrase, get a word

posted by: Bren

Quick Reference Cards

More ref cards

posted by: Bren

g-mailto bookmarklet

Nice little gmail utility

posted by: Bren

refcards.com

Techinical ref cards

posted by: Bren

Fifty Writing Tools

A series of writing tips

posted by: Bren

6/24/2004
GMail Utilities

More gmail stuff

posted by: Bren

Getting More Out Of Gmail

Gmail tips. Yeah, I’ve become a fan

posted by: Bren

grub

Responsible eating

posted by: Bren

RSS in Government

Title kinda says it all

posted by: Bren

6/22/2004
CSS Helppile

Lots of CSS goodness

posted by: Bren

Easy CSS drop shadows

Someday I will learn this

posted by: Bren

What is Customer Service

MIT ponders the nature of customer service

posted by: Bren

timeline creator

I just know this is going to come in handy.

posted by: Bren

Tool lending library

This is going to be my next advocacy project!

posted by: Bren

Idea Recording

Good tips for keeping track of ideas

posted by: Bren

newsmap

This makes me dizzy

posted by: Bren

How to lose friends and infuriate people

Sarcasm, of course, but good reading for the introspective manager

posted by: Bren

50 best magazines

Chicago Tribune ranks magazines. I’m going to look into the “Budget Living” one.

posted by: Bren

Working Smart

Just got turned onto this blog and I’m liking it a lot

posted by: Bren

Open Source Web Design

Some really great ideas and help

posted by: Bren

Fact checking Farenheit 9/11

This movie is going to get serious scrutiny

posted by: Bren

folderblog

Interesting app for online albums

posted by: Bren

Easy RGB

Lots of color goodness

posted by: Bren

Scientists Teleport an Atom

I don’t totally understand this, but I *do* know that I don’t want it happening to MY atoms

posted by: Bren

Boxer Text Editor

I use CrimsonEditor, but this looks pretty nice

posted by: Bren

Google Search: link harvest

Back on top.

posted by: Bren

6/16/2004
Buy nothing Christmas

Get an early start on buying nothing for Christmas

posted by: Bren

Working poor

Looks like a good book

posted by: Bren

How To Price a New Product

Good to know

posted by: Bren

CEOGO

Interesting site with CEO-centric stats

posted by: Bren

FoF 0.1.5 now shipping!

Get it while it’s hot

posted by: Bren

HOW TO ARGUE RELIGION

This is funny. Unless you’re humorless.

posted by: Bren

Free business plan software

Plan the work, work the plan

posted by: Bren

Cheap stuff

A whole blog about getting stuff cheaply

posted by: Bren

WhatTheFont

a font finder

posted by: Bren

HOW TO STUDY

Good tips, not that I need them anymore

posted by: Bren

Bitter at the Top

Brooks nails it

posted by: Bren

But When Dogs Speak, Do We Listen?

NYT letters to the editor about that smart dog that was all over the news

posted by: Bren

beyond bullets

Blog on effective PPT

posted by: Bren

Business Logs

New blog and consultancy on KM practice…looks interesting

posted by: Bren

dropload

Free online file storage. I remember using services like these back in the 90’s before I had access to a server

posted by: Bren

Essentials of economics

When you need to know

posted by: Bren

6/14/2004
How to manage smart people

On my reading list

posted by: Bren

The Two Things

The Two Things, as blogged everywhere today

posted by: Bren

Signal Orange

Raising awareness

posted by: Bren

Pop or Coke

What do YOU call it?

posted by: Bren

North American Bird

Field Guide to the North American Bird

posted by: Bren

6/11/2004
Mental floss

Looks like a fun magazine

posted by: Bren

Clean sweep

More life tools

posted by: Bren

Lucid Dreaming

How to control your dreams

posted by: Bren

Mind games

This is really freaky

posted by: Bren

Of the world’s 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries

It’s weird to think that I used to work for a company that is economically larger than many countries.

posted by: Bren

The Bend

Fun with CSS

posted by: Bren

6/10/2004
Genius thinking

Think different

posted by: Bren

Structured procrastination

Just do it. Eventually.

posted by: Bren

Soople

Google searches through another interface

posted by: Bren

Freeware list

A “best of” list

posted by: Bren

Lookups

Various data lookups

posted by: Bren

Open with…

Freeware user defined ‘open with…’ menus

posted by: Bren

Key finder

Utility to find lost product keys for Windows

posted by: Bren

6/9/2004
Facebooks Go Online

Poke your pals from college

posted by: Bren

Meta Efficient

A Guide To the Most Efficient Things in the World

posted by: Bren

Broadvoice

More internet phone stuff

posted by: Bren

Presidential prayer

Who you with? Shirts or Skins?

posted by: Bren

Digital movies the easy way

Movie making made easy

posted by: Bren

Resources for Nonprofit Considering Blogging

I’ve been thinking about this stuff lately

posted by: Bren

The Myths of Reaganomics

A counter-perspective on Reagan’s policies

posted by: Bren

Winer’s RSS list

Dave Winer’s lists

posted by: Bren

DNS Stuff

DNS tools, WHOIS, tracert, ping, and other network tools

posted by: Bren

October Surprise!

Now accepting bets

posted by: Bren

How to Seem Smarter

Ready Made is a great mag–read the hardcopy versions if you can find them!

posted by: Bren

Vim

Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing

posted by: Bren

Build Your Own PVR

Why Tivo When you can Freevo?

posted by: Bren

Petrified heart

French Royalists Stage Funeral for Relic

posted by: Bren

Big Blog Company

Another entry into the blog business

posted by: Bren

$340,000

What $340,000 will buy in San Francisco

posted by: Bren

Query Tool

Nice, clean SQL query tool

posted by: Bren

Reports from TCF

They’ll be issuing regular reports

posted by: Bren

geocoder.us

a free US address geocoder (tip for WP users: use it to find your long/lat and enter into your index.php file)

posted by: Bren

One Last House Call

Notes from Reagan’s doctor

posted by: Bren

Uncool!

I can’t grind, but even I think this is uncool.

posted by: Bren

6/7/2004
File recovery tools

Some free tools for file recovery on various mediums

posted by: Bren

Natural Born Dualists

Long, heavy essay on dualism

posted by: Bren

Horse karate kick

Ow. (mpeg)

posted by: Bren

The Revealer

A daily review of religion and the press

posted by: Bren

How Org Charts Lie

Social network analysis review from HBR

posted by: Bren

GTD workflow diagram (pdf)

Single-page pdf of the advanced GTD workflow

posted by: Bren

What the Bagel Man Saw

The bagel man saw shades of dishonesty

posted by: Bren

Atlantis found?

Barring that crummy animated flick, I’ve always been fascinated by Atlantis.

posted by: BossHogg

More lifehacks

The source of the notes

posted by: Bren

Well-Designed Weblogs

I need to study this

posted by: Bren

Data king

Wow. That’s a lot of data. Bound to come in useful someday.

posted by: Bren

Life Hacks

This focus on simplicity reminds me of David Allen’s stuff.

posted by: Bren

Bit Torrents

Fred experimented so we can all forgo the learning curve.

posted by: Bren

Slackernomics

It’s going on my wishlist [via]

posted by: Bren

Debunked

Google Answers actually work [via]

posted by: Bren

Damask Wallpaper Patterns

Cool backgrounds [via]

posted by: Bren

Finding your e-voice

Be yourself

posted by: Bren

Not your Average Housewives

Housewives from Texas take a political stand . . . in an unusual way. (PG-13 Rating)

posted by: Matt

6/6/2004
Wiki lifecyle

Seems to translate well for any online community

posted by: Bren

Modesty will be the new sexy

“The next big trend I see is kids are going to look like monks.”

posted by: Bren

Idealist

Nonprofit jobs and more

posted by: Bren

ServiceLeader.org

Huge site…lots of information about voluteering

posted by: Bren

6/4/2004
CS Monitor RSS

Christian Science Monitor feeds

posted by: Bren

Yahoo Groups do RSS

All Yahoo Groups with public archives have an RSS feed

posted by: Bren

NYT RSS feeds

Get ‘em here

posted by: Bren

Nigritude Ultramarine

Real content must prevail! :-)

posted by: Bren

Long ride

My co-worker’s parents are riding their bikes from Maine to San Diego.

posted by: Bren

Kilt me!

Father’s Day is comin’ up!

posted by: Bren

The web, back in the day

CBC News Indepth: D-Day 1944 Front Page

posted by: Bren

New feed location

I’m routing the Link Harvest feed through FeedBurner, just to see what the deal is with the stats.

posted by: Bren

Nerd Values

Craigslist gets legitimacy

posted by: Bren

Rat-English Dictionary

This one’s for Matt and his rats

posted by: Bren

Bugmenot for FireFox

Sweet extension for FireFox

posted by: Bren

Harnessing the Power of Poop

Fartman’s got nothing on astronauts

posted by: Bren

Art of Speed

Nike branded blog

posted by: Bren

6/3/2004
Woof

This is from Amy’s school

posted by: Bren

6/2/2004
King for Bush

Don King is stumping for Bush

posted by: Bren

Tips for sighted people

Common sense tips for helping blind people

posted by: Bren

Cold Turkey

Vonnegut article about fossil fuel dependence

posted by: Bren

Muscular Christianity

Manliness is next to Godliness

posted by: Bren

Favicons

I just figured favicons out the other day and made one of Tru’s head for the blog

posted by: Bren

Daily Dose of Excel

I’m keeping this link around for emergency use

posted by: Bren

FOF

The latest ‘feed on feed’ is ready for consumption

posted by: Bren

LA to OR in 6 min.

I-5 at mach 3

posted by: Bren

Live Forever

We could all be Methuselah…

posted by: BossHogg

Chait.net

David made the scripts that power the link harvest sidebar on the bren : blog. Very responsive developer!

posted by: Bren

Quaker football

Fight, fight, inner light,
Kill, quakers, kill!
Knock ‘em down, beat ‘em senseless,
Do it till we reach consensus!

posted by: Bren

6/1/2004
38 dishonest tricks

Listen carefully to your favorite politician.

posted by: Bren

Origami Artists Replaced by Robots

And here I was worrying about my job being outsourced overseas…

posted by: BossHogg

A poor-mans Everquest?

Yet again evidence that there are some people with WAY too much time on their hands.

posted by: BossHogg

Are you a geek?

Its been around a while, but its still good to check your status every now and then.

posted by: BossHogg

Do your neighbors have cash to throw at politicians?

Make sure to search for famous people too, like George Bush.

posted by: BossHogg

Holy Roller

Fueled by tea and cigarettes

posted by: Bren

Death can be profitable

This is a good weblog. I would like to meet this guy, since he lives just down the road.

posted by: Bren

Spirit of America

This is going to get huge.

posted by: Bren

Well rounded gaming

Learn to be a well-rounded, responsible adult by playing this video game. Right.

posted by: Bren

Wigging Out

A hair raising experience, literally

posted by: Matt