Roy, Bourn, JR: The right thing to do

It’s the right thing to do. • JR Towles. This one’s been beaten to death and the Astros painted themselves into a corner when they became infatuated with a late-September run. Towles virtually skipped Triple A — he had played in 13 …
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Jimmy Fallon to do some minor league web video work before moving …

Comedian Jimmy Fallon is taking over NBC’s “Late Night” show next year when current host Conan O’Brien moves up to take Jay Leno’s place on the “Tonight Show.” Producer Lorne Michaels, apparently not sure that Fallon is ready to make …
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Sexual aversion disorder has nothing to do with desire

Having a desire for sex doesn’t mean a woman can’t have sexual aversion disorder, says Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg, chief of behavioral medicine at MacDonald Women’s Hospital at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. …
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Gmail Redesigned Skin Version 2.0 Released [Gmail]

Globex Designs releases version 2.0 of their Gmail Redesigned skin which fixes over 40 bugs and is speedier than ever. Expect an update to the Better Gmail 2 extension with the new Redesigned 2.0 version to hit your browser some time tomorrow.
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What to do when she doesn’t love you back?

I was a bit ashamed when I found that someone was looking for these terms because he was in this situation where me, I was living the perfect love life with my beautiful fiancée. I felt that I was egoist enough not to see that people …

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Alarm Clock Pro 8.4.4

Alarm Clock Pro features a huge variety of features from a stop watch, timer, time zone and time difference calculator to task list manager, scheduler, and power manager. Also, set alarms to recur daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. …
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Three Books Having Something to Do with Superheroes, None of Whom …

Designer info to come So this started last week when reader Katie wrote in to tell me about Who Can Save Us Now?, the premise of which strikes me as pretty brilliant: invite 22 contemporary writers to invent new superheroes and spin a …
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Poll Everywhere Gathers Votes by SMS [Mobile Apps]

Need to know how many folks coming to your big bash prefer beer, wine, or soda? Poll Everywhere offers a free polling service that lets you send up to 30 SMS messages with simple reply instructions to gather opinions. You can also send a link to your polling page by email, Twitter, or whatever service […]

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Time is the resource, but attention is the problem.

It’s also hard — at least in Linda Stone’s experience and mine — to give full attention to one task when you feel that your task list is out of control and running your life. Task List Zero? Part of the reason all this strikes a nerve …
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Digital Sliderule Makes Copyright Law Dead Simple [Copyright]

When it comes to copyright law, not knowing the rules can get you in a lot of hot water, but figuring out the rules can be just as frustrating. Luckily, the American Library Association has created a simple tool that tells you whether or not you need to hunt down a rights owner to […]

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