10. Ask them to finish their bite before continuing.
Always go with the simple approach first. You wind up with less body-bags, cleaner fee’s and suspicious souses. It might not be as effective, but will get the job done in most cases. 
9. Start making ‘Chomping’ noises while they are talking. 
This is a personal favorite of mine. Make [...]

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Clay Collins of Project Liberation and The Growing Life.
Albert Einstein started that “problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” Einstein, of course, was right. Sometimes our problems require more than life hacks, tips, tweaks, etc. Sometimes our lives don’t need optimization, [...]

July 29, 2008 — 11:30 AM PDT — by Sean P. Aune —

Whether you’re setting up an Intranet for your company or a collaborative website for your family, there are a variety of wiki solutions to choose from. We’ve gathered a list of more than 30 of them for those that wish to try their [...]

Written on 7/29/2008 by Sasha R. Lahijanian, a reader of DLM that has no agendas to advance or blogs to promote, she just wants to help people.
A simple list to simplify your life.
When you first arrive at college you will be introduced to problems that you never knew existed. While no list will ever include [...]

“[The Internet] is not a truck. It’s a series of tubes.” - U.S. Senator Ted Stevens
Ah, the Internet: you use it every day for school, work or fun. In such a short period of time, the Net has grown into an essential [...]

Do you live by the old adage of putting off doing today what you can do tomorrow? Do you find yourself doing the easy things on your list first, and then running out of time and energy to do the tougher, and usually more important things? If so, you’re part of a large segment of the population who suffer from procrastination. There is a cause and there are cures for this highly prevalent “disease.”

1) Unsigned Cards Are Not Valid And Merchants Can And Will Refuse Them
You might think that everyone knows that you have to sign your credit card in order for it to be valid — after all — there’s a panel on the back that says “Not Valid Unless Signed,” but you’d be shocked at the [...]

First of all we need to agree on the terms used. Scientology is the belief or the doctrine of the Scientology “technology” or “religion”, while Church of Scientology is the organisation.
People should be free to believe whatever they want, including Scientology. What I have against the Church of Scientology (CoS) is its deceitfulness, its [...]

Wisdom Quotes

1. You can do anything, but not everything.
—David Allen

2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author

4. You miss 100 percent of the [...]

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Join us and the ScriptumLibre.org Foundation in boycotting all products and services sold by Trend Micro.
The proprietary software company Trend Micro has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Barracuda Networks. They claim that Barracuda is violating their patent by distributing the free software antivirus program ClamAV.
We should avoid using any proprietary software, but [...]