Via FocusJournal

• It’s not an AddressBook.

• You want a real address book or pocket computer for that.

• Part of the whole purpose of the focus notebook is to build focus. As such, we want to seperate it from the more mundane things in our life.

• That said, you can tolerate a bit of carrying names and numbers in
  the book; It’s inevitable that you’d want to do so, since you’d be
  carrying this book around with you everywhere you go.

• Absolutely not: "I’m bored." "I ate a sandwich." … & other unimportant stuff.

• Don’t write everything because you’re afraid you’ll "lose" it. Stick with main ideas. The reconstructive power of the human mind is extraordinary.

Sometimes the question of where to put a comma, how to use a verb or why
not to repeat a word can be important, even strategic. But most of the
time the author either missed that day’s grammar lesson in elementary
school or is too close to the manuscript to make corrections before I
see it.

Via Holt Uncensored

I just noticed that the new Bewitched web site is up and I have to tell you I am as anxious as a hamster at the Gere household. First, she has fantastic legs, but damnit she can’t twitch her nose. It looks like she is swishing mouthwash around in there.

I am afraid that this movie is going to turn out to be The Stepford Wives with a broomstick, but that isn’t the only reason I am scared. The thing is that it is so damned hard to duplicate the magic that was Bewitched the television series. After Agnes Moorehead and Paul Lynde, Will Ferrell and Shirley MacLaine are going to be a big fat let down.

A linguist from the University of Pittsburgh has published a scholarly
paper deconstructing and deciphering the word "dude," contending it is
much more than a catchall for lazy, inarticulate surfers, skaters,
slackers and teenagers.
CNN.com

From BME

You’ve got a pocket full of pens, pencils, business cards, soda money, a slide rule, a cell phone, and your precious Moleskine-you didn’t have room for your car keys so you left them at home. There must be a better way.

I stumbled across the Lewis N. Clark Neck Stash from Gear Labs. You can store almost everything you need to do business or pleasure in your Moleskine without sounding the Tin man with a belly full of rocks.