A film I worked on is included in this site (Slavery: A Global Investigation), definitely not a "tin-hat" film - we won two Emmys and the Peabody Award for best doc that year. My worry is that the information listed for the film is wrong on several counts, and while I am glad it is being seen I am not sure HBO knows…

I travel a LOT in my work (human rights) and I love that I can take the aeropress with me when going to coffee-unfriendly parts of the world.

About 20 years ago my TV broke and I thought I would not replace it till I really missed it. I did miss it a lot at first, but then I missed it less and less until after a couple of weeks or so I realized that I had all this extra time. I was reading more, talking to people more, going out more, getting more exercise,…

Wow, who knew that everyone was feeling so TOUCHY about the fact that we're having an election? Or is it just Sarah P.? We don't get cross with LH when the article is about other political issues - like whether the government will extend its control over the internet or deregulate financial markets in ways that lead…

@VayaConQueso:

@VedettePower: Thanks Vedette for your kind words. I didn't say it before because it sounds so outrageous, but my goal is the end of slavery on the planet. A big, happy, surprize for me is that after ten years pursuit, we're actually getting there: www.freetheslaves.net. Two days ago Bill Clinton held up a book I…

I believe it is worth thinking about goals that are NOT all about me me me. That "big-toothed personal goal salesman" is profiting from our self-absorption and doubt, from our desire to achieve things that have been pressed on us by other big-toothed salesmen. But sometimes the answers are not in us but around us.

"Chai" in Hindi, Russian, and a number of other languages is simply the word for "tea" - but has been adapted by marketeers to name different things they intend to sell you with a hint of the exotic. To anyone who speaks the other languages hearing someone ask for "Chai tea" sounds pretty funny.

I check LH almost every day and have found it an extremely useful site. I have recommended it to a lot of friends and colleagues as many of the posts really do increase productivity and fun.

Good advice. I write and publish non-fiction books on human rights regularly and follow most of these suggestions. I'd add this tip that helps me get books done and out on time - count words. For me, writing a book can be managed and achieved more easily if I plan the output. Most books run 85,000 to 100,000 words (I…

This isn't a fake, this is a spoof - check out the sponsor links like "Medical Adoptions" ($80,000 gets you a third world child to adopt with a perfect tissue match) or "Scientology Loans." These are strange, biting satires, rather well done if over the top.

Please never split the site, it is the variety and breadth that makes this one of my favorite sites. If you feel the need to clone off a narrow little TECH-Hacker site go ahead, but I'm more interested in having a whole life to hack.

Sounds like the perfect moment to finally give up TV once and for all.

Two ways to avoid colds - get older and don't have kids. There are several hundred cold viruses circulating the world at any one time, but once you have one of these viruses you won't get it again. So, get old, rack up your normal count of viruses and you'll likely have fewer colds. Also, understand that in the first…

What works for me (on my Powerbook) is to take post-it notes and slide the sticky side under the keys. The stickiness of the post-it note picks up a lot of grunge - this is cheap, easy and can be done without removing the keys.

I started on mainframes, then happily jumped to the first PCs and then the first portables (lug-ables) like the Osborne OM-1. I worked on the first project to make optical discs fully interactive, ran CPM and who knows what else, before DOS took over. Got stuck into Thinkpads and stayed there for years and years, then…