WWWoundup: How-Tos, And How!

As regular companions of this bureau will note, I periodically root around in the web's dense undergrowth for lists of advice on vaulting over the mundane but vexing hurdles life throws in our way. So yeah, this is one of those posts. First, you might want to take a look at 22 Ways to Overclock Your Brain and Thinking Like A Genius first, to get the most out of the knowledge I'm cold kickin'.

The dude who wrote Guidelines for Platonic Friendship offers "some sensible rules and regulations to avoid any confusion in a male-female friendship," like "No seat sharing" and "No sparing my feelings." Good luck with that, pal.

The maybe-a-wee-bit-paranoid How To Survive Disappearing ponders what to do when "men in black uniforms – you can't tell if they are military or police – storm through your home...you and your possessions are loaded into a nondescript black van...A bag is placed over your head, and you are taken off the van and, judging from the sound, onto a plane of some kind. 17 hours later, you are brought into your new prison cell." Hey, who knows what might happen, right?

In a striking coincidence, all of these Whitney Houston Makeover Tips involve some variation on "stop doing drugs." If you want to hone your expertise at getting on people's nerves, here are 248 Ways to Annoy People, like "Sew anti-theft detector strips into people's backpacks" and "While walking make car noises loudly (such as changing gears)". Or you might prefer to skip the annoyance stage and jump right to murder with 28 Ways to Kill Your Neighbor.

Best of all, you can start composing your own lists of "useful" advice with Top Ten Tips Topics (like "everybody is a programmer these days, so give your 2 cents on how they can tweak their coding habits") and How to do "How-To" Lists. I'll add one bonus tip for composing blog posts in no time flat: quote freely from the pages you link to and your blog will practically write itself!

Four O'Clock Flash: Apartheid has nothing to do with the color of anyone's skin, and everything to do with the color of various floating circles. Make the circles disappear by drawing a line to segregate them from the others. Can't they all just get along?

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:30:00 GMT

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