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• Are you as creative as you want to be?
  via Lifehack.org
  (tags: lifehacks creativity essay todo)
• My Guide To Gardening
  Warren Ellis: “You see, the Earth’s natural tendency is to fuck with you. This is the secret of gardening. The planet does not want to give you anything. Mulching the soil is like waterboarding Gaia.”
  (tags: gardening humor)

Thanks Burlington Telecom for finally relieving me of Comcast.

Service speeds approximately 6.7 times better¹ for only about 5% more per month? Yes, I’ll take it.  For certain activities (e.g., grabbing new email messages, downloading an already “lite” webpage) there isn’t much difference to notice; but for others (e.g., downloading a DMG of the new NetNewsWire, uploading photos to Flickr) there is a huge difference.

Relief!

1. …on the download; 13.3 times better on the upload.[↩]