Today's crap I'm reading: "Current cool stuff."

I used to bookmark pages in a folder labeled "current cool stuff" in an effort to manage my attention, reading, interests, and time.

The only thing that's ever helped me with the four items above is using paper and pen/pencil to organize my thoughts and activities.

So here's what I had way back when. I deleted the links to pages that are now defunct, like Second Brain, which was a huge shame because between it and del.icio.us, I thought I'd gotten a handle on myself. (Also, oh my god, Delicious is still around. I just logged in [https://del.icio.us/mensan98th]. Remembered my password on the second try. I last saved a bookmark to the site on April 8, 2010. It was to geekchichq.com, which is now defunct.)

And we're off.

I used to think of my internal life and interests as a Wunderkammer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities

Looks like Cabinet is still going:

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/index.php

Carbonite, you have saved me more than once.

https://www.carbonite.com/

I went through a period where I needed a SMS management system (it had to do with events I was running). I don't think I ever tried this one.

https://slytext.com/

I would intermittently read articles on weight loss because I believed I was, I dunno, Cinderella? Sleeping Beauty? A matryoshka? Here's one in that set of links.

https://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/motivation_articles.asp?id=685&from=IBSYS&affiliate_code=fran

Still love me some retro. I get Christmas cards from Retro Christmas Card Company for the past couple of years. The link below is to a different business:

https://www.retroplanet.com/

30 things to do to keep from picking up a machete at work:

https://zenhabits.net/30-things-to-do-to-keep-from-getting-bored-out-of-your-skull-at-work/

I can't remember bookmarking this, but here it is:

https://citrinitas.com/

Lifehack is not lifehacker. Case in point:

https://www.lifehack.org/articles/featured/whats-your-sticking-point.html

Remember the laughing Quaker Guy?

http://www.hetemeel.com/hahaform.php

As with many, many things online, this site was funnier when it first started:

https://www.someecards.com/

Good to see that The Long Now Foundation is still around:

http://longnow.org/seminars/

Can't recall why I bookmarked this, but here's some horror photography:

https://joshuahoffine.com/

Looks like she dropped off the planet after having a baby:

http://www.notcot.com/

Y'know, I tried, Second Life. I did. Multiple times. Fuck all happening each time I tried. Apparently I was doing it wrong by not cybering the guys I'd run across. PS: If you know what "cybering" is, you're old:

https://id.secondlife.com/openid/login

Okay, yeah, this one goes back to 2007. It might still be relevant to me, though.

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/09/writing-as-performance.html