Labor Day’s over, campers. Time to put away your espadrilles and finish those TPS reports. With Summer symbolically behind us, here’s a fast overview of some favorite 43F posts from the past 3 months:

• Want to keep surfing? Pay the Webolodeon - Danny’s amazing Greasemonkey script for shortening your surfin’ safaris
• Personal Mantras: Got one? - Mine’s “Smaller, smaller.”
• Index Card Printer Review: Canon Pixma iP3000 - Still love this little printer, currently $69.99 after rebate at Amazon
• Beginner’s Mind, Metropolis, and all our unnecessary parts - Stripping down “the system” to just what you need
• WIRED interview: extended 12-inch version - I enjoyed getting interviewed for (and reading) Robert’s article, but he did kinda leave out out some of my A material
• New habits and useful landmines - Great, concrete examples of making it hard to fail
• On the culture of distraction; one pipe for all interruptions? - The benefits of “switching off,” and wondering if we could put all requests for interruption into one standardized queue
• July office pr0n roundup - In the midst of an office supply orgy, I reviewed some of the stuff that was turning my crank
• Sending short email messages from within Quicksilver - Sending a fast message all within QS—so sexy
• Ye Olde Hipster - Thomas Jefferson’s 18th Century precursor to the Hipster PDA
• Life inside one big text file - Comments contain numerous great tips from plain text hackers