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Use Two Computers to Keep Your Work and Home Life Totally Separate [Productivity]

It's hard for a lot of us to separate our work and home lives under the best of circumstances. When you work from home it's even more difficult, but blogger Pat Flynn found a method that works for him. More
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Keep Your Daily Momentum Going With a 10/15 Split [Work]

One of the toughest aspects of staying productive is overcoming the ups and downs of motivation. Spending 10 minutes getting organized in the morning, then 15 minutes again in the evening, can help even out your daily go-get-'em energy. More
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Corey Haim Dies: Fans Pay Tribute on Social Media Sites

Corey Haim, best known as one half of “the two Coreys,” was found dead in his home this morning at the age of 38, apparently from an accidental drug overdose. The actor was a teen icon and heartthrob in the late 1980s, known for his roles in films like Lucas, The Lost Boys, License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream. While his more recent work has been more limited, that hasn’t stopped fans from flooding Twitter and Facebook with responses to this news. Haim is most prominently known for his work in the The Lost Boys — a coming-of-age story about teenage vampires.
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Make an Appointment with Yourself for Distraction-Free Time Blocks [Distractions]

Workplace distractions are nothing new, but if you can't seem to find time to do some serious distraction-free work for any significant chunk of time, consider time blocking an appointment with yourself. Over at business site Fast Company, our own Gina Trapani continues her Work Smart video series with a great piece on Time Blocking (embedded above). Recounting the days when she worked as a low-on-the-totem-poll programmer in a distraction-heavy office, Gina remembers: It got so bad that when I was on deadline, I'd book hour-long meetings in a conference room where I was the only attendee. I'd put the meeting in my calendar a day or two ahead of time so that I showed up as "busy" in Outlook. When the time came, I'd steal off to the conference room with my laptop to work uninterrupted
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TypeWith.me Makes Real-Time Text Collaboration Dead Simple, Resurrects EtherPad [Collaboration Tools]

If you like Google Wave's real-time collaboration but not the interface or registration, check out TypeWith.me. It's a solid, simple, as-you-type document collaboration webapp with no sign-up required. A quick background: Google recently bought previously mentioned EtherPad with goals of integrating it into Wave, then closed the service. Then , after some backlash, they open-sourced the entire app. TypeWith.me took that code and put it on a new server that, unlike EtherPad, won't be closing down any time soon
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Schedule Reply Windows to Minimize Interruptions [Distractions]

If you find your productive periods of work ever shrinking because of email, phone, and other interruptions, it's time to adopt a policy of scheduled replies. Photo by Mike "Dakinewavamon" Kline . Over at the organizational blog Everyday Simplicity they found their productivity was taking a hit because of excessive interruptions and perpetually responding to emails and phone calls as they came in. Their solution was to set aside scheduled windows of time to deal with incoming email, voicemail, and other inputs: I only return messages left for me at 10 am, 2pm, and 4 pm. My phone's ringer is turned off, and my cell phone sits in my purse.
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Thinking Space Maps Your Mind on Android [Downloads]

Android: Your best thoughts can come to you when you're nowhere near your work space. If you're carrying an Android phone, Thinking Space is an elegant and convenient way to map out where your mind goes on the go. Thinking Space does most of what you'd want a desktop mind mapping package to do, and a little more, in some cases. You'll figure out the methods for adding and branching thoughts pretty quickly, and if you're already using Freemind , it can read those files, too
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MIT Media Lab Extension: The New Home of Face-Melting Research [MIT Media Lab]

The world-renown MIT Media Lab is a place where every project is an amazing, unbelievable glimpse into humanity's technological future. Now, thanks to a massive $90 million extension, the architecture can match the wondrous excitement created within. In case you haven't had the opportunity to swing by this particular block in Cambridge, Massachusetts, here's what the old Media Lab looks like. It's still there
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Sandra Bullock Oscar Acceptance Speech in Hot Demand [VIDEO]

The 82nd Academy Awards were last night, and it wasn’t just about iPad commercials and pissing matches between media conglomerates ; actual awards were given out, too. Although The Hurt Locker might have taken home the most gold statues (six wins out of nine nominations), one of the most talked-about moments of the night was Sandra Bullock’s acceptance speech for Best Actress. Currently, the speech is being watched by scores of Internet users, according to Google search trends. Bullock won the award for her work in The Blind Side
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Robot Pokemon: Kojiro Would Destroy Asimo with Musculoskeletal Jujitsu [Robots]

Kojiro here is the work of Tokyo's JSK Robotics Laboratory. With his 60 degrees of motion, provided by a network of Super Effective! artificial muscles and tendons, he'll utterly destroy Asimo in the inevitable slow-motion robot battle in their future. I say slow motion because, I mean, look at this thing.
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