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Kinkless blog offers five step series to a clean desktop



Ethan J. A. Schoonover at the Kinkless blog has just finished penning a series titled Five Steps to a Kinkless Desktop. Some of you might know Mr. Schoonover and Kinkless from the AppleScript mod he provides for The OmniGroup's OmniOutliner Pro, which can turn an OO Pro document into a powerful, though somewhat clunky, GTD utility (soon to be replaced by a full-blown product called OmniFocus).

Getting back to Ethan's five step process, however: it's more of an exploration of what's wrong with both some of today's software (i.e. - the fact that most browsers default to dumping all your downloaded files to the desktop) as well as our own habits. He begins the series with step 1: The "No Mercy Cleanup, with instructions on how to get started with a broad-sweeping gesture to get things started, and rolls on through the rest of the series offering tips and tricks for not only keeping your desktop clean, but more importantly: developing good habits for getting your work done.

For those who aren't interested in hopping on the GTD bandwagon, fear not: while some of his methods and ideals are inspired by the GTD paradigm, a crash course in Getting Thing Done just to learn how to get things done is nowhere to be found. This is simply good clean tips and tricks - sometimes involving Mac OS X-specific software, mind you - for tidying up your desktop, and then keeping it that way.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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