• Google Trends Reveals People's Predictability - The correlation between searches on "rain" and "depression" is fascinating.
• apophenia: algorithms for dumb security questions - Great idea for creating a reusable "security question" pattern. (cf. previously here) [via anarchaia]
• David Allen Company :: GTD Gear :: *New* The GTD® Tickler File - Pretty pricey, if you're asking me, but a quick way to get started with your own 43 folders (and they do look well-constructed). [via]
• I need examples of things and secrets only a very in the know sort of person would know about - Wonderful ideas for "stuff normal people won't know." And, yes: Grenyarnia is much more exclusive than Svenborgia. Psh. Can't believe you didn't know that.
• An Entirely Other Day - Utterly Failing to Get Things Done - Greg Knauss should totally write something for 43 Folders. Am I wrong? Am I?
• Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School - Terrific post that gets you thinking at a much higher level than your more quotidian "Try not to say 'um.'" tips. Highly recommended.
• Quantification Table for Site Owner - Leslie Harpold's fun personal Harper's Index makes me melancholy to see her again. Sure do miss her.

New Scientist has a piece in this week's newsletter on using the "semantic web" to get organized, focusing on a site with which I'm unfamiliar called Twine.

It's in invite-only Beta now, but might be worth checking out.

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blockquote>Twine uses a semantic approach to act as a personal organiser, bookmark service, and a social network combined.

In Part One, I relayed a few of Leslie Harpold's amazing and simple methods of looking better every day. In this episode, it's all about staying in touch with the people in your life, and letting them know they matter just by keeping track of them from time to time.

I will confess that I am awful at staying in touch with anyone. Friends, relations, friends of relations, pets... you name it, I have at one point or another completely lost touch with it. I have no excuse, really, and there are a few simple things that Leslie would do to help her not lose touch with those people in her life who were important, whether for personal or professional reasons.

While most sensible Mac users were looking forward to cool new features in Leopard like Cover Flow, Quick Look, and Time Machine, I was sitting on the edge of my seat, itching to try out iCal and Mail.app's new to-do list integration. I agree with Merlin's approach to using a bunch of single-purpose applications that are very good at what they do instead of a bloated piece of do-everything-ware like Outlook--"a series of super-sharp paring knives over one monstrous Swiss Army Knife"--as he put it, but I looked forward to a little bit of teamwork between two of the applications I use the most. And boy, am I disappointed.

Sometimes surprises come from unexpected places. (Um, I guess that’s part of why they’re surprising.) Case in point, yesterday I opened Sciral Consistency as I’ve done several times a day for the last five years. This time, however, something happened that hasn't occurred since sometime in 2005. A notification window announced that a new version of the application was available for downloading.