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This infographic shows a lot of information about mindfulness and meditation by using shapes, colors, and font sizes. From Information is Beautiful.

I heard these lyrics from a song named “Taxi Sequel” by Harry Chapin, and I couldn’t agree more. I find that what I think I think isn’t the same as what I really think when I talk to another person about something. It’s as though talking to another person helps clarify your own thinking.

You see a sign like this on a door, you have to knock, right? There must be a man-law about this sort of thing ... :)

As a note to self about an upcoming project, here’s a link to a Smashing Magazine article on App store marketing.

The painter of this painting, which hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, says that the shadow on the left side of the fireplace/mantle is a shadow of a dress, Monica Lewinsky’s dress, to be specific. The story is here on ktuu.com.

The Aetna CEO almost dies, and returns to health through mindfulness and yoga. He offers training to employees, and "participants show increased productivity, and report less stress and pain," and at least a 3% reduction in healthcare costs. The story is here at the NY Times.

I was watching the Jobs movie last night and noticed that when Jonathan Ive (Giles Matthey) was talking near the end of the movie, the 1999 Marc Newson car design was in a photo behind him. At least I think it’s his design; you can see his car design work here. Besides that people are reporting that Apple wants to build a car, the odd thing about this is that this conversation between Ive and Jobs would have taken place in 1997.

You might be getting old if ... your idea of a nice gift for yourself is a glass teapot. But, on most nights, especially in the winter, I like to enjoy a cup of tea in the evening. I usually just put water in a cup in the microwave to make my tea, but I thought I’d try a teapot ... something to slow me down and calm me down just a little bit more in the evenings. This image comes from the Williams-Sonoma website.

The EpochConverter website can be useful, especially if you need to manually generate the “datetime” stamp for a Drupal theme’s .info file. The datetime field usually contains a Unix timestamp, like the one shown in the image.

According to Wikipedia, Alan Alda had McLean Stevenson’s character (Lt. Col. Henry Blake) killed off. In a related note, I’ve found that there are two times when you can judge a person very well: How they behave when they have nothing, and how they behave when they have everything.

I haven’t seen the movie Wild yet (starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern), but the website mindful.org calls it their “Mindful Film of the Year.”

A “simple” guide to washing machine symbols. Image from this Twitter page.

“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP.” ~ Leonard Nimoy

The image shown is from the end of this New Yorker interview with Apple’s Jonathan Ive. If you’ve followed my blog here, you know that I’m interested in design (and wrote this article on how to design products you love), so I read a lot about Jonathan Ive and other designers like Dieter Rams. On the burnout thing, I know I felt that back in 2007. In May of 2007 I was ready to never work again, but by the end of August I was ready to get back to it. Sometimes you just need a break to reboot.