I hate meetings - How to run a meeting like Google. Especially the interminable 'lets go round the room and tell everyone what you've been up to' ones. Definitely better to have short meetings based around action points, minutes, information and deadlines - then stuff gets done and the meetings are mercifully short. Anything deep can be discussed offline and bought back to the next meeting.

A few environmental links -

* Breathing Earth shows carbon emissions and births/deaths by country

* New Scientist article on Earth without people and the same information presented as a timeline. Sobering stuff.

Amusing - Fifty ways a manager can get employees to quite. Its very Office Space / Office.

Via Jeremy Zawodny - 'Dilbert' deserves the economics Nobel - Scott Adams financial advice. Nine point plan to financial security. I've only got two of them :-(

As seen on Slashdot - Dr Dobbs Journal article on Chris Crawfords new Interactive Fiction company StoryTron. Looks fascinating. It will be interesting to see what type of stuff comes out of such a tool.

Must drink more tea - Why green tea helps you lose weight.

I need to apply these changes to my install now - Tweaking Firefox for better memory management.

A more useful error page for Firefox ErrorZilla. Looks like another must have extension.

See some of the interesting stuff coming from Adobe Labs.

The Kircher Society blog is having a roundup of death related strangeness. Pretty fascinating stuff.

A couple of good reasons why the Mac is a much more 'fun' platform than either Windows or Linux -

* A new twist on burning a CD - Disco. I love that blowing on the mic will make the smoke move.

* For Mac Laptops with a motion sensor - Skip Checker. Tap the side or move up/down to kick off an action or script.

My ThinkPad T43 has a motion sensor but all it seems to do is protect the disk and add a silly coloured icon to my tray. Runs like a dog too. Sigh.