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• Not the Strongest Possible Argument
  Hit & Run @ Reason Magazine (via lawnczar) - I… I’m speechless!
  (tags: politics Olympics humor surreal irony)
• SF MAGAZINES: SF Writers On The Short Fiction Market
  via Warren Ellis
  (tags: scifi writing publishing todo)
• Celebrity Robot T-shirt
  @ B^2, Gizmodo, everywhere else :: it is quite awesome
  (tags: scifi robot)
• Playing Well with Others
  via Lifehack.org
  (tags: essay social leadership management todo)
• Liz Williams’ Near-Future Detective Inspector Chen Novels
  via OMNIVORACIOUS
  (tags: scifi literature todo)

For about the past month, I have been trying out the public beta of Cultured Code’s Things. Things is a “GTD-style” task management application with a clean UI and some nice, convenient features. While I am not really an adherent to GTD philosophy credited to David Allen, the truth is that a decent task management application can be difficult to find and doubly so if you shun “GTD” all together. iCal has its half-baked to do list¹; then there are full-blown project management apps; or you can hack your way through it with a more general purpose app like OmniOutliner. That said, it perhaps goes without saying that I have eschewed these task management apps in the past because they have either seemed overkill or else flimsy band-aid solutions to more pernicious problems. When I read about Things for the first time on TUAW, it sounded like it might hit the sweet spot for me and I decided to give it a spin.

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1. Say what you will about its integration with Leopard Mail, I still think it’s little better than sticky notes.[↩]