I usu­ally book­mark every arti­cle, col­lec­tion of images, and video that I come across. In spite of that prac­tice, I have been rather neg­li­gent lately in culling items to post in my weekly list. With­out fur­ther ado…here is my attempt to catch up.

• 95 Ques­tions to Help You Find Mean­ing and Hap­pi­ness – Marc
• The Dish Trib­ute to Hitch — The Dish/Andrew Sullivan
• Christo­pher Hitchens, 1949–2011: In Memo­riam — Gray­don Carter
  
• In Memo­riam, My Coura­geous Brother Christo­pher, 1949–2011 — Peter Hitchens
• Sankalpa: “I Am,” Rather Than “I Want” — Nina Yau
  
• Now That the Fac­to­ries are Closed, It’s Tee Time in Ben­ton Har­bor, Mich. — Jonathan Mahler
• The Immis­er­a­tion of the Dig­i­tal Cre­ative Class — Fred­die deBoer
• Mak­ing Big Deci­sions and Mas­ter­ing the Con­se­quences — John Caddell
• How to Bul­let­proof Your­self from McDon­alds & The Fast-Food Temp­ta­tion — Phil Dro­let
  
• The Rise of India: Five Fea­tures on the Sub­con­ti­nent — Byliner
• 100 Days With No Goals — Joshua Fields
  
• Why Amer­i­cans Won’t Do Dirty Jobs — Eliz­a­beth Dwoskin
• The Sci­ence of Objec­ti­fi­ca­tion — Tracy Clark-Flory
• Swear­ing to Make Your Point: A Tale of F**K and Sh*t — Adam Pash
• The Sex­pe­ri­ence 1000 — Sex­pe­ri­ence UK
• United Bases of Amer­ica (an info­graphic) — National Post News
• The Secret Rule of Chang­ing Any­thing — Leo Babauta
  
• Megapoli­tan Amer­ica — Robert E. Lang & Arthur C. Nelson
• Why MANY Smart Peo­ple Are Not Social? — Rajesh Setty
• Nice Guys Can Fin­ish First — Peter Reuell
• How to Build a Com­puter Model of God — Char­lie B
• How to Think and Com­mu­ni­cate Visu­ally — David Armano
• 50 Years of Stu­pid Gram­mar Advice — Geof­frey K. Pullman
• Racism and Mer­i­toc­racy — Eric Ries
• Fail Upwards — David Trott
• 11 Sounds That Your Kids Have Prob­a­bly Never Heard — Kara Kovalchik
• The Amaz­ing His­tory and the Strange Inven­tion of the Bendy Straw — Derek Thompson
• Stay­ing Strong Under Stress — Scott Belsky
• The Great Unfold­ing — NurtureGirl
• The Myth of Work-Life Bal­ance — John Beeson
• How and Why to Find a Men­tor — Alex Lickerman
• The Pen is Might­ier Than the Phone: A Case for Writ­ing Things Out — Kevin Purdy
• A Quick-Start Guide to Teach­ing Your­self Cre­ative Soft­ware — Todd Anderson
• How to Get and Stay Mar­ried — Touré
• If I Were a Poor Black Kid — Gene Marks
• If I Were a Poor Black Kid Responses — Jenée Desmond-Harris
• Make Time and Space to Notice the Lovely — Court­ney Carver
  
• Coax­ing Serendip­ity: How Casual Get-Togethers Drive Inno­va­tion — Scott McDow­ell
  
• Engadet Primed: Why You Camera’s Sen­sor Size Mat­ters — Sean Arbabi
• Why I Hire Peo­ple Who Fail — Jeff Stibel
• Email Eti­quette for the Super-Busy — Joce­lyn K. Glei
• Quash­ing the Self-Improvement Urge — Leo Babauta
• The Dark Side of Self Improve­ment — Mar­tijn Schirp
  
• 30 Things to Start Doing for Your­self — Marc
• 30 Things to Stop Doing for Your­self — Marc
• Tak­ing Beauty’s Mea­sure — Rachel Shteir
• The New Full-Frontal: Has Pubic Hair in Amer­ica Gone Extinct? — Ashely Fetters
• Best Books 2011 — Pub­lish­ers Weekly
• What’s the Dif­fer­ence Between a Reli­gion and a Cult? — Brian Palmer
• The Year in Pic­tures: Part 1 — The Big Picture/Boston Globe
• The Art of Lis­ten­ing — Hen­ning Mankell
• Poverty and Income in Amer­ica: The Four Lost Decades — John Cassidy
• Most Inter­est­ing Libraries in the World — Mirage Book­mark
  
• Fincher’s Dragon Tat­too: What if Feels Like for a Girl — Sasha Stone
• Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War? — Ta-Nehisi Coates
  

 
John Jay on Cre­ativ­ity — Fast Com­pany

This is an abbre­vi­ated list of inter­est­ing things I read, looked at, or watched this week.

• 3 Key Busi­ness Lessons from Steve Jobs: Intu­ition, Rein­ven­tion, Focus — Richard MacManus
• The Tweaker: The Real Genius of Steve Jobs – Mal­colm Gladwell
• Shoes and Soft­ware – Jason Fried
• Why Inspi­ra­tion Mat­ters — Scott Barry Kaufman
• Michael Pol­lan: On the Steve Jobs of Agri­cul­ture — Tim Carman
• Michael Pol­lan: On Big Food as Part of the Solu­tion? — Tim Carman
• Michael Pol­lan: On Preach­ing to the Choir — Tim Carman
• Is the Inter­net Killing Your Favorite Restau­rant — Rick Aris­to­tle Munarriz
• Face­book vs. Google: The Bat­tle for the Future of the Web — Miguel Helft & Jessi Hempel
• How Russ­ian Tycoon Yuri Mil­ner Bought His Way Into Sil­i­con Val­ley — Michael Wolff
• Jamie Beck e Kevin Burg: Cin­ema­graphs — Buddy
• The Rebirth of the Fem­i­nist Man­i­festo: Come for the Lady GaGa, Stay for the Empow­er­ment — Emily Nussbaum
• Sil­i­con Val­ley Fights to Keep Its Diver­sity Data Secret — Julianne Pepitone
• Tech Industry’s Diver­sity Prob­lem Starts in College–and Ear­lier – Julianne Pepitone
• The King of Human Error — Michael Lewis
• The Hajj and Eid al-Adha — Lane Turner
• The Future of Self-Improvement Part 1: Grit is More Impor­tant Than Tal­ent — Joceyln K. Glei
• The Future of Self-Improvement Part II: The Dilemma of Coach­ing Your­self – Joceyln K. Glei
• Stillpower: The Truth Path to Flow, Cre­ativ­ity and Respon­sive­ness — Jake Cook

 
Hrabowski: An Edu­ca­tor Focused on Math and Sci­ence — Byron Pitts

• Ama­zon Signs Up Authors, Writ­ing Pub­lish­ers Out of Deal — David Stre­it­feld
  
• Can Your Roman­tic Life be Reduced to Pro­nouns? — Tara Parker-Pope
• Big List of Things to Be Happy About — Nora Dunn
• Is This the End of Pop­ping Vit­a­mins? — Shirley S. Wang
• A Sex-Ed Exam — For Adults — Tracy Clark-Flory
• Bil­lions and Bil­lons — Eliz­a­beth Kolbert
• Work Smart: Over­com­ing the Addic­tion to “Inse­cu­rity Work” — Scott Belsky
• The Silli­ness of Busy­ness — Court­ney Carver
• Open Palms and Indi­vid­ual Lib­er­a­tion — Nina Yau
• 5 Ways to Turn Fear Into Fuel — Jonathan Fields
• The Heat Is On — The Economist
• See­ing Red: Which Coun­tries Owe the Most? — HowStuffWorks
• 25 Insights on Becom­ing a Bet­ter Writer — Joceyln K. Glei
• How the Newsweek­lies Cov­ered (and Designed) the Death of Steve Jobs — Robert Newman
• Why Chom­sky is Wrong About Twit­ter — Nathan Jurgesnon 
• Infor­ma­tion is Cheap, Mean­ing is Expen­sive — George Dyson
• What’s Actu­ally in Tap Water? — Jor­dan Shakeshaft
• Net­flix Fail­ures and Lessons From Betrayal of Brand Loy­alty — Chris Voss
• Freedom, Money and Time and the Key to Cre­ative Suc­cess (free ebook) — Mark McGuinness 
• 5 Good Rea­sons Cou­ples Should Cook Together — Rachel 
• The New Eco­nom­ics of the Music Indus­try — Steve Knopper
• 10 Things You Should Be Able to Say Before You Die — Marc
• Her­man Cain and the False Premise of a CEO Pres­i­dency — Jonathan Cowan

 
Bot­tle — Kirsten Lep­ore

I have not posted my ran­dom list of inter­est­ing reads and videos in a while. Please excuse this longer-than-usual list as I play a lit­tle catch-up.

• Aca­d­e­mic Pub­lish­ers Make Mur­doch Look Like a Social­ist — George Monbiot
• 12 Things Happy Peo­ple Do Dif­fer­ently — Marc
• Stop­ping the Mid-Career Cri­sis — Athena Vongalis-Macrow
• 50 Nat­ural Ways to Boost Your Energy — Marc
• Unau­to­mate Your Money — Adam Baker
• The Under­ap­pre­ci­a­tion of Rest in Today’s Soci­ety — Joshua Becker
• Bask­ing in the Glow Of Un-Productivity — Court­ney Carver
• How to Build a Com­puter From Scratch — Whit­son Gordon
• The Best PCs  You Can Build For $600 and $1200 — Alan Henry
  
• What Google’s Famous Cafe­te­rias Can Teach Us About Health — Mar­ion Nes­tle
  
• Step Away From the Blog — Stu­art Mills
  
• Your Brain on Med­i­ta­tion — Anne Trafton
• The Ben­e­fits of Med­i­ta­tion- Jon Rhodes
  
• The Amer­i­can Novel — Joseph Epstein
  
• Beyond the Stan­dard Essay — Scott Jaschik
• Why Do Col­lege Stu­dents Love Get­ting Wasted? — Thomas Rogers
• The Lost Art of Post­card Writ­ing — Charles Simic
• 10 Immutable Laws of Mis­takes — Alan Norton
  
• Ten Things Every­one Should Know About Time — Sean Carroll
• Evo­lu­tion of the Web — Google Chrome Team
• 10 Online Tooles for Bet­ter Atten­tion & Focus — Joce­lyn K. Glei
• Writ­ing With­out Read­ing is Like _______. — Macy Halford
• Set­ting Bound­aries & Say­ing No … Nicely — Eliz­a­beth Grace Sanders
• The Last Closet — Will Leitch
• How Fast Can China Go? — Simon Winchester
• How Whole Foods “Primes” You to Shop — Der­ren Brown
  
• Carla Hall Digs into Day­time TV with ‘The Chew’ — Tim Carman
• What’s Inside: Red Wine — Patrick Di Justo
  
• How Should We Make Hard Deci­sions? — Jonah Lehrer
• The Kin­dle Fire, the iPad, and What Tablets are Good For — Nilay Patel
• Haruki Murakami: Tal­ent is Noth­ing With­out Focus and Endurance — Joce­lyn K. Glei
• Should I Respond to Every Email? — Joce­lyn K. Glei
• Why Suc­cess Always Starts With Fail­ure — Sarah Rapp
• 5 Ways to Turn Fear into Fuel — Jonathan Fields
• Do Prin­ci­pals Know Good Teach­ing When They See It? — Melinda Burns
• Black Amer­ica and Obama: The Cost of Silence — Fred­er­ick Meade
• 10 Things to Stop Car­ing About Today — Marc
• How the Refrig­er­a­tor Got Its Hum — Alice Bell
• Why You Can’t Buy Cre­ativ­ity — Mark McGuinness
• How to Plan a Do-Nothing Vaca­tion — Leif Pettersen
• Why Do Some Peo­ple Learn Faster? — Jonah Lehrer
• Seek­ing the Story Behind Genius — Cal Newport
• Black Pres­i­dent, Dou­ble Stan­dard: Why White Lib­er­als are Aban­don­ing Obama — Melissa Harris-Perry
• The Epis­te­mol­ogy of Race — Melissa Harris-Perry
  

Words — Everynone