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Ken Nail

Archivist, father, newly married for the second time, writer.

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You don’t always have to work hard to be productive.

29 Semi-Productive Things I Do Online When I’m Trying to Avoid Real Work

Productivity can simply be the side effect of doing the right things. So here’s a list of 29 semi-productive things I do online when my mind is set on avoiding ‘real work.’ Check delicious popular tags like ‘useful,’ ‘tutorials,’ ‘tips,’ ‘howto,’ ‘advice,’ ‘entrepreneurship,’ etc. for interesting, educational articles to read.Watch one of the thousands of educational videos streaming at TED.com, Academic Earth and Teacher Tube.Read an online book list and find a new book to grab next time I’m at the library. Here’s another list. And another. Wired for Books: poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults. Rare Book Room. Great Stories, People, Books & Events in Literary History. Free eBooks by Project Gutenberg.

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Research has shown that students who read deliberately retain more information and retain it longer. Your college reading assignments will probably be more substantial and more sophisticated than those you are used to from high school. The amount of reading will almost certainly be greater. College students rarely have the luxury of successive re-readings of material, either, given the pace of life in and out of the classroom. While the strategies below are (for the sake of clarity) listed sequentially, you can probably do most of them simultaneously. 1.

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Blog: 100 Websites You Should Know and Use

Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won’t find these words in George R. R. Culture My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life. 8 Unstoppable Rules For Writing Killer Short Stories. Cool Notepad Trick - Hirlpoo West. This neat trick came across on an internal alias.

Cool Notepad Trick - Hirlpoo West

I hadn't seen this before, but I'm guessing it isn't new. Pretty handy for notetaking (if you're a plain text sort of guy/gal). Open a blank Notepad file Write .LOG (in uppercase) in the first line of the file, followed by Enter. Save the file and close it. DRUDGE REPORT 2010® Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate. Mental_floss Blog » 6 Things You Should Know About Isaac Newton. By Brian Gottesman There are few areas of learning and scholarship that haven't been touched by Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727).

mental_floss Blog » 6 Things You Should Know About Isaac Newton

And while you've probably heard some of the colorful stories (that he served in Parliament, but never spoke a word except to ask that a window be closed, he may have invented the cat flap, etc.), here are a few things you probably didn't know about the founder of modern science. 1. He didn't play well with others. Cl1p.net - The internet clipboard. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Current News - FOXNews.com. Reason Magazine. Breitbart.com. Big Peace. - Big Journalism.

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Now needless to say, feature films are expensive propositions, and despite the fact that we had next to nothing on the shelves when we opened the doors, you took a chance on us and parted with your hard-earned money to support that critical cause: namely, reclaiming the mythology of the country; recasting us and our principles as heroes rather than villains; and dealing with the issues that the liberals in Hollywood will not only not touch, but actively squash at every opportunity.

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