Bush impersonator reads kids letters

Pretty funny concept

Manage your email

Here are some links for managing email (both those you have and those you send)

For those of you who sometimes have problems managing email, it can seem like you spend more time doing less work. Below are a number of resources for various aspects of managing email, from getting your own inbox under control, to making sure other people respond to you emails.
My own system involves:

• Mozilla Thunderbird as the email program,
• three filters:
• One to gray out anything not addressed to me
• Two to send email from two distribution lists (Teachers of Psychology, Tomorrow's Professor) immediately into their own folder (I can catch up once a week)
• When I send a message, it is bcc'ed to my gmail account, so I have an easily searchable archive of what I have sent.
• UVA's greylisting service
  

Two guides for getting your inbox under control:
http://www.43folders.com/izero/

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/getting-to-done/getting-to-done-communication-a-guide-to-email-triage-156948.php

Email overload (lots of information about handling email)
http://itzy.wordpress.com/

like: how to keep track of overdue responses:
http://itzy.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/how-to-keep-track-of-overdue-responses/#more-15

"Googling" your emails
http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000168.html

Color code messages that are addressed to you
For thunderbird
http://carl.evankovich.com/2006/03/02/color-code-email-messages/
For outlook
http://itzy.wordpress.com/2005/12/27/how-to-color-code-your-messages/

National Archives video online

Google video is putting video from the National Archives online for all to use. Pretty cool idea, except it is a little buggy right now. WWII newsreels, NASA films, and films from the departmet of the Interior are up for the first round.

http://video.google.com/nara.html

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Harry Frankfurt "On Bullshit"

Video interview from Harry Frankfurt - author of "On Bullshit"
This interview is two tweed jacket academic talking heads, sitting in front of stacks of books, talking about bullshit.
Both hilarious and insightful.
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/video/frankfurt/

Manage your email

Some tips on how to manage your behemoth of an inbox
http://www.43folders.com/2006/02/06/email-ninja/

Superbowl commercials

Complete superbowl commericals,
http://video.google.com/superbowl.html

Free information from your phone

1800 555-TELL gives you all sorts of information from your phone
(directions, news, sports scores, etc)
1800-FREE-411 offers free 411 services.

For each, you may have to listen to a brief ad, but it is unlikely.

23 Uses for your thumb drive

Useful article from PC World on what you can do to soup up your little ol' USB drive
link

One example: TO synchronize between computer and drive, use the Microsoft Windows XP SyncToy

Free online stock photos for presentations

Tired of clip art? Google Images not giving you what you want?
Try this link for a list of places that provide free images
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2006/01/where_can_you_f.html


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Handy little option

For those who like to see how much is in their folders without any crazy right clicking...
http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/

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Fun with Photoshop

The website fark.com has a photoshop contest every now and then. Some of them are great.
I like this one :

Here is the link for all of them:

Attn: Amazon shoppers

Amazon has a price guarantee such that if an item you buy goes down in price anytime within 30 days, you are entitled to the difference in price. All you have to do is email them, and they mail you a check. See this link for a more thorough explanation
But that would mean you would have to check back on the prices of things you bought, which is a hassle.
There is a nice website that will track this for you:
http://www.refundplease.com
So, for each item you purchase just enter in the price, the ISBN (for books) or the ASN (for everything else) and your email address, and they will tell you if the price drops. Pretty handy.

Printable coupons

How about some last minute shopping?
Printable coupons to lotsa stores that you actually might go to (like BestBuy, Banana Republic, Borders)
http://www.wow-coupons.com/all-printable-retail-coupons.php

McSweeney's Lists

From Dave Eggers and his type of folks, their internet magazine is called McSweeneys
It contains an unsung, yet hilarious group of lists.
Here is a list of my favorite lists
One of my favorites is:
Implausible Claims
Made by Vanilla Ice in His 1990 No. 1 Hit "Ice Ice Baby."

It's not easy looking hard while eating a cupcake

Funny video from Saturday Night Live.
Chronicles of Narnia rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0

I Love [the] New York[er]

Great magazine. Here is a list of what I think are the best articles of the year:

Burkhard Bilger's "The Egg Men" - Egg cooks in Las Vegas

John McPhee's "Out in the Sort" - What you never knew about UPS, the life inside the hub in Louisville.

Elizabeth Kolbert's "The Climate of Man" - Two part article on global warming

Tad Friend's "Secret Agent Man" - A Profile of a non-Hollywood, Hollywood agent

Jerome Groopman's "A Model Patient" Simulation in medical training

Richard Preston's"Capturing the Unicorn" Making a digital copy of a famous tapestry uses lotsa computers and advanced math

Margaret Talbot "Darwin on the Dock" - The newest trial of evolution vs. intelligent design with some colorful characters

How-to Do just about anything

Wiki-How
http://wiki.ehow.com/Main-Page
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Voicemail by email

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Manage your voicemail from your email program with GotVoice

GotVoice Net lets you manage your voicemail online using an email program (Microsoft Outlook®, AOL, MSN, etc.) or your own personal GotVoice web page. The GotVoice Net Web Interface makes voicemail accessible virtually anywhere you log onto the Internet - at home, at work, when you’re traveling, even in a coffee shop hotspot.

Tricked Out Desktops

Check out the tricked out desktops from Lifehacker readers
http://www.flickr.com/groups/lifehacker-desktop-showandtell/

Many ways to make Windows (or Mac) look nicer, and easier to use.

Pavement Illusions

This guy rocks. He paints on pavement in 3-D.
Julian Beever