February 2005

Why we overcommit ourselves – “Research by two business-school professors reveals that people over-commit because we expect to have more time in the future than we have in the present. Of course, when tomorrow turns into today, we discover that we are too busy to do everything we promised.”

Expired Domains and Dropped Domains Portal – great for domain name ideas

Improv Everywhere Mission: McDonald’s Bathroom Attendant – more performance art; love these guys…

men.style.com: Home – very cool unconventional layout; not sure if it helps anyone though…

IT Conversations: Malcolm Gladwell – Tech Nation – Gladwell talking about Blink again; it’s fun to listen to all these while reading the book…

Smartmoney.com: Consumer Action: Ten Things Your Real Estate Broker Won’t Tell You – how to buy or sell a house without getting scalped

jwz – Hula – how to build a non-useless calendar application

jwz – Hula – thinking like users again: “How will this software get my users laid” should be on the minds of anyone writing social software (and these days, almost all software is social software).