This would make even Chuck Norris proud. Imagine it without the helmet.

Watch the kicker’s leg after his kick is checked by the defender.

My buddy Ken just did his first Ron Paul support video. You can comment on it below or in the original thread on his site.

The expectation lens is a phenomenon that modifies how one perceives a movie. Like myopia and presbyopia it can go two ways:

1. You expect a movie to be horrible, so it ends up appearing better than it actually was.
2. You expect a movie to be excellent, so it ends up appearing worse than it actually was.

Two extremes of this phenomenon are old classics you happen to catch on TV, and big-name movies you see in the theater.

Random TV movies make use of the LEL (Low Expectation Lens) and yield more satisfaction, while big-screen blockbusters employ the HEL (High Expectation Lens) and tend to disappoint.:

PipeBytes is a nifty little web-based file transfer tool for sending content that doesn’t have any security sensitivity. The interesting thing about this tool is that it shows you when people are pulling the files and even gives a progress indicator.

Thanks to Ken for the link.

[ PipeBytes ]

I have a hyperbolic writing style. Scratch that. I have a hyperbolic communication style. I’m animated and prone to exaggeration. Is this a problem? Only if the person I’m speaking to doesn’t know me — so usually, yes.

It’s gotten me into trouble on this site occasionally, and I am working to address it. As a refresher, however, here’s what hyperbole means:

The key here is, “…not meant to be taken literally.”

It’s important to differentiate this from believing something absurd. As an example, when I said a single article in just a few seconds made me re-think my entire stance on global warming (or something to that effect), what I really meant was that it made me re-adjust my belief factor from 90% to 60% (those are friend prices), which was a major thing to me.

My language was meant to convey how major it was, but it’s important to keep it all in perspective. The fact is that I wasn’t convinced of man-made global warming before the article (which I clearly stated in the original post), and I wasn’t completely unconvinced afterwards. All that changed was my current level of belief. The failure was in how I communicated the whole thing.

I wonder if this sort of language simply comes with excitement, which I never want to lose. But much of it arguably has to go in order to be a mature and serious writer. I want to be accurate but I also don’t mind being a bit dramatic at times, as long as it’s understood that I’m being so. I suppose the key is to clearly delineate between harmless hyperbole and weak, poorly thought-out opinions.

Bottom line? I like the word evar, and I want to be able to use it in a sentence.

This looks to be the best GTD application I’ve ever seen. The only question I have is whether or not there will be a mobile interface. In my opinion, the only kind of GTD system that will work long-term is one that can be with you wherever you are.

Be sure to check out the screencast.

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For those that have been struggling with Safari’s inability to tame Google Reader tabs, the 10.0.2 release of Saft solves the problem.

It’s $12 to purchase and $6 for an upgrade. I’d check it out if you use Safari. I use it for the tab control but it has a number of other features as well.

[ Saft 10.0.2 ]