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Hide your photos.
Most people don't seem to realize their profile photos and other albums are available to strangers. The profile photos are usually shared more widely, e.g. to "Everyone," while the photo albums are often only slightly more restricted, e.g. "Friends of Friends."
From your Facebook home page, go to the Settings menu in the upper right corner, and select "Privacy Settings." Then select "Profile Information." Then scroll down to Photo Albums and click "Edit Settings"...
...and adjust to the level of privacy you are comfortable with ("Only Friends" was probably your setup before):
Hide other people's photos of you
If someone "tags" one of their Facebook photos with your profile, it can show up on your profile. If you don't want strangers (including "Friends of friends") to see these often candid shots, go to Settings/Privacy Settings, then "Profile Information" and adjust "Photos and Videos of me." We'd recommend "Only friends:"
Hide your birthday
It's insane that Facebook recommended that many people share their birthday with "Friends of friends" in its defaults for the new "privacy" scheme. This personal information can be used by financial fraudsters to help impersonate you to your bank, credit card company, email provider and others. We'd recommend showing it to as few people as possible. Or, even better, set it to a false date.
Under Settings/Privacy Settings/Profile Information:
Hide your posts
Facebook is defaulting people to share their posts with "friends of friends," i.e. strangers. You may want to revert this to share only with your friends. Under Settings/Privacy Settings/Profile Information:
Remove your friends list from your profile page
Facebook has updated its privacy policy to say that you can never permanently hide your friends list, and last week it was impossible to hide the list from friends of friends (see Felix Salmon's second update here). This might be changing; on Monday, we couldn't find a way to view the friends list of certain "friends of friends."
In any case, it's definitely possible to make your friends list harder for strangers to view, by removing it from your profile. Go to your Facebook home page, then click on "Profile" in the top right corner to view your profile.
Then scroll down to the section of the profile that shows your friends (titled "Friends"), and click the pencil symbol in the upper left corner. This will reveal a checkbox to hide your friend list from some strangers, at least on your profile page:
Hide your profile from search engines
Facebook is touchy about this one, because it's always displayed some data for search engines, by default, and suddenly people are noticing. That's why when you go to change your settings under Settings/Privacy Settings/Search, Facebook now pops up this ultra-defensive dialog:
What Facebook doesn't tell you is that it now offers a link to "View Such and Such's Friends" from the public, search-engine-indexable profile page. At least, that's what ours does. At the very least, you should look at your search engine page using the preview link under "Public Search Results" and see if you want to continue to make it available:
RULE 4. REMEMBER WHY IT’S ANIMATED
The current state of special effects is so advanced that it’s become increasingly difficult to impress even the least theatrically experienced 8-year-old. But take heart, there are still things animation can do that can’t be matched by the even the most skilled effects wizards. The key is to know what those things are and use them as tools to make your story as fun as possible.
Good animation looks for an “animation hook” – essentially a reason why the movie is being animated in the first place: Toys coming to life after you leave the room is a hook that bursts with possibilities. The ascension of a rat to the pinnacle of Parisian gastronomy would probably lose a bit of its charm in live action, but Ratatouille stands out as one of my favorite animated films of all time. The key is to squeeze as much mileage out of that hook as is humanly possible.
Which leads me to…
RULE 5. SINK YOUR TEETH INTO THE WORLD
Animators will regularly spend months researching the world of the film. They’ll practically live at the zoo watching exotic animals prance around looking for the idiosyncrasies and personalities of various animals… it wouldn’t kill you to do the same.
On The Princess and the Frog, I was looking for a series of unique ways to show conflict and contrast between the fun-loving Prince Naveen and the hard-working Tiana. I ended up spending a lot of time – don’t laugh – pretending to be a frog. I finally came to the conclusion that Naveen, a world traveler and a man open to new experiences, would immediately enjoy his new frog body. He’d have no problem at all eating flies and hopping around in the swamp. Tiana, who wanted no part of this would try to walk upright (which would lend itself to physical comedy given the fact that it’s virtually impossible for a frog to stand on two feet), she’d resist eating flies and try to retain her dignity through the experience. But, in the end, her inherent resourcefulness would bail them out of a jam or two. Even when the two waltz in the middle of the film it’s filled with acrobatic jumps and underwater moves that only two frogs could do and it adds to the uniqueness and magic of the movie.
RULE 6. THINK VISUALLY
When I worked on situation comedies like “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and “Roc”, we would write stuff like “He enters and sits on couch” followed by five pages of witty dialogue. Conversely, there’s nothing more boring in animation than two characters sitting around and talking. Keep your characters moving. Don’t let them talk about what they’re going to do, put them in action. And, when they speak, keep in mind that some poor animator is going to have to sit over a light table or a computer screen for two weeks bringing the sentence you’ve just written to live. Keep it short and make what’s there fun to play with.
RULE 7. REMEMBER TO BRING YOURSELF TO THE TABLE
Animation is a collaborative medium. An actor, (sometimes a singer) and a team of animators create a character. A team of background artists give the characters places to go. Dozens of sound engineers and composers work around the clock to create an auditory reality out of thin air. The process is as different from live action as the laws of nature allow. But, at its heart, good story telling is good story telling. The more outrageous and remarkable the world of your film is, the more it needs to be anchored with an emotional reality. Find the truth in the incredible, give your characters a beating heart, tell your stories as entertainingly as possible and have a ball doing it.
I can’t wait to see the films you make and I hope you’ll all enjoy mine this weekend!
"Use it to post anything almost anywhere
Beyond its easy blogging features, Posterous’ big selling point is that it can share anything via email to a wide range of services. Setting up the services you want to post to is a simple case of entering appropriate details on the Autopost page. Then, by simply sending a photo (for example) to post@posterous.com, or selecting it from a webpage via the Bookmarklet, it could be sent to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and FriendFeed simultaneously, as well as to your Posterous blog. Any tags you added to your post would be picked up by services like Flickr too.
With Autopost to Twitter enabled, it’s easy to use Posterous as an alternative to Twitpic. Many desktop Twitter clients, including Tweetie and Seesmic Desktop, support posting images via Posterous with the added benefit of them going wherever else you’re set up to autopost to.
Of course, sometimes you might only want to post something to one service instead of many. An video might be worth tweeting about but you might not want it on your Youtube account. To handle this, the Bookmarklet has the option to exclude services, while you can specify services you wish to post to via email using different email addresses.
To only post to Twitter, you’d use twitter@posterous.com, for example. To send to a number, but not all, of your services you can use the format twitter+youtube+vimeo@posterous.com to just send to those services. If you have a number of similar accounts, but only want to post to one, that’s covered too. If you have three different blogs but only want to post a picture of a swan to the one called ‘Birdwatching’, you could do that by emailing #birdwatching@posterous.com
To send the picture to only the Birdwatching blog and your Flickr account, you’d use flickr+#birdwatching@posterous.com
Use it to work as a group in private
By setting your Posterous blog as Private and allowing colleagues to post to it, you can use it as a private working environment. Co-workers can use it to email in ideas, images, audio and v
# Love. Perhaps the most important. Fall in love, if you aren't already. If you have, fall in love with your partner all over again. Abandon caution and let your heart be broken. Or love family members, friends, anyone -- it doesn't have to be romantic love. Love all of humanity, one person at a time.
# Get outside. Don't let yourself be shut indoors. Go out when it's raining. Walk on the beach. Hike through the woods. Swim in a freezing lake. Bask in the sun. Play sports, or walk barefoot through grass. Pay close attention to nature.
# Savor food. Don't just eat your food, but really enjoy it. Feel the texture, the bursts of flavors. Savor every bite. If you limit your intake of sweets, it will make the small treats you give yourself (berries or dark chocolate are my favorites) even more enjoyable. And when you do have them, really, really savor them. Slowly.
# Create a morning ritual. Wake early and greet the day. Watch the sun rise. Out loud, tell yourself that you will not waste this day, which is a gift. You will be compassionate to your fellow human beings, and live every moment to its fullest. Stretch or meditate or exercise as part of your ritual. Enjoy some coffee.
# Take chances. We often live our lives too cautiously, worried about what might go wrong. Be bold, risk it all. Quit your job and go to business for yourself (plan it out first!), or go up to that girl you've liked for a long time and ask her out. What do you have to lose?
# Follow excitement. Try to find the things in life that excite you, and then go after them. Make life one exciting adventure after another (with perhaps some quiet times in between).
# Find your passion. Similar to the above tip, this one asks you to find your calling. Make your living by doing the thing you love to do. First, think about what you really love to do. There may be many things. Find out how you can make a living doing it. It may be difficult, but you only live once.
# Get out of your cubicle. Do you sit all day in front of computer, shuffling papers an
Tapping Tricks for Your iPhone
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# Tap the Status bar at the top of the screen (where the clock usually is) to return instantly to the top of long pages.
# Hold a finger on a link in Safari to get a pop-up saying where the link goes.
# Tap the bottom left or right corner to scroll left or right.
# Tap with two fingers to zoom out in Maps.
# Drag inside text boxes with two fingers to scroll without scrolling the whole page.
# Double-click the Power/Lock button to send incoming calls to your voice mail.
# Double-click the Home button in any app to bring up the iPod controls.
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MIKE NICHOLS, the subject of a two-week retrospective starting Tuesday at the Museum of Modern Art, is not an obvious choice for a place as artsy and highbrow as the MoMA film department. MoMA retrospectives tend to be awarded to brooding European auteurs — Bernardo Bertolucci and Milos Forman were the last two — and not to commercial Hollywood directors who include on their résumé pop hits like “Working Girl,” “The Birdcage” and, just recently, “Charlie Wilson’s War.”
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The director Mike Nichols is the focus of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
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A Mike Nichols sampler, from top: Candice Bergen and Jack Nicholson in “Carnal Knowledge” (1971), Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (2007), Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate” (1967) and Al Pacino and Meryl Streep in “Angels in America” (2003).
Except for a puzzling string of duds in the mid-’70s, almost all of Mr. Nichols’s movies have made money, and a few, like “The Graduate” and “Carnal Knowledge,” have been recognized as cultural landmarks. But because of their commercial shimmer, their way of eliciting exceptional performances by top-of-the-line stars, it’s sometimes hard to say what makes a Nichols movie a Nichols movie. They seem like vehicles for actors, not the director, whose stamp is in leaving almost no trace of himself.
“If you want to be a legend, God help you, it’s so easy,” Mr. Nichols said the other day over coffee in his Times Square office. “You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it’s fun to do a
But making the leap to FriendFeed is not without some pain. For instance we find FriendFeed a better, more up-to-the-moment way to keep track of Twitter posts than Twitter itself. But unfortunately FriendFeed doesn't offer an easy way to transfer all the people you're following on Twitter directly into FriendFeed, which is where Twitter-to-FriendFeed Contact Sync comes in handy.
The service is a very simple, but invaluable tool that finds all the people you're following on Twitter and matches them up with their FriendFeed accounts. The sync tool works by grabbing your Twitter friends list and then searching FriendFeed for the same usernames.
You then get links to follow the same contacts on FriendFeed, making it simple to migrate from one to the other.
Every family has passed down a few old-timey, homespun cures for common ailments. Our readers shared a number of their own discussing yesterday's DIY throat soother; here's a closer look at what's in everyone's home-remedy cabinets.
Free application HearPlanet plays audio tracks of Wikipedia articles based on points of interest surrounding your current location, turning your iPhone or iPod touch into an audio tour guide.
HearPlanet uses your iPhone's location awareness to find places of interest near you. When you choose a topic, HearPlanet loads up a screen with both the text and audio of the Wikipedia article in question. If your iPhone or iPod touch can't find you, HearPlanet offers a search option in which you can enter a search topic and location. That means that even if you don't want the audio tour guide, you can still use HearPlanet to listen to Wikipedia articles on the go—if you don't mind a little robot voice, that is.
iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application HearPlanet plays audio tracks of Wikipedia articles based on points of interest surrounding your current location, turning your iPhone or iPod touch into an audio tour guide.
HearPlanet uses your iPhone's location awareness to find places of interest near you. When you choose a topic, HearPlanet loads up a screen with both the text and audio of the Wikipedia article in question. If your iPhone or iPod touch can't find you, HearPlanet offers a search option in which you can enter a search topic and location. That means that even if you don't want the audio tour guide, you can still use HearPlanet to listen to Wikipedia articles on the go—if you don't mind a little robot voice, that is.
If you don't want to serve a totally plain couscous, you can make the lemon and herb variation (below). It's light and lovely and would go nicely with any tagine recipe - chicken or whatever. But just so you know, in traditional Moroccan cooking, the couscous prepared entirely plain so that it can soak up the sauce from the tagine without any interference. Either way would be fine. As a side dish, I've made roasted sweet potato chunks, tossed in olive oil and spiced with ras-el-hanout or another aromatic Moroccan spice mixture before roasting. And a salad that includes some citrus - like oranges - would go well.
Lemon and Herb Couscous
1 tbsp. 15 mL olive oil
1 cup 250 mL couscous
1/4 cup 50 mL chopped fresh parsley
2 tbsp. 30 mL chopped chives or green onion tops
1 tsp. 5 mL grated lemon zest
1/2 tsp. 2 mL crumbled dried thyme
1/2 tsp. 2 mL salt
1/4 tsp. 1 mL black pepper
1-1/4 cup 300 mL chicken broth, heated to boiling
2 tbsp. 30 mL lemon juice
Heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the dry couscous, the parsley, chives, lemon zest, thyme, salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, for one minute, until well combined. Add the boiling chicken broth and the lemon juice, stir, cover and remove from heat. Let the mixture sit, covered, for 5 to 7 minutes, or until the couscous is tender and all the liquid has been absorbed. Fluff with a fork and serve.
Makes 4 servings.
If you don't want to serve a totally plain couscous, you can make the lemon and herb variation (below). It's light and lovely and would go nicely with any tagine recipe - chicken or whatever. But just so you know, in traditional Moroccan cooking, the couscous prepared entirely plain so that it can soak up the sauce from the tagine without any interference. Either way would be fine. As a side dish, I've made roasted sweet potato chunks, tossed in olive oil and spiced with ras-el-hanout or another aromatic Moroccan spice mixture before roasting. And a salad that includes some citrus - like oranges - would go well.
Lemon and Herb Couscous
1 tbsp. 15 mL olive oil
1 cup 250 mL couscous
1/4 cup 50 mL chopped fresh parsley
2 tbsp. 30 mL chopped chives or green onion tops
1 tsp. 5 mL grated lemon zest
1/2 tsp. 2 mL crumbled dried thyme
1/2 tsp. 2 mL salt
1/4 tsp. 1 mL black pepper
1-1/4 cup 300 mL chicken broth, heated to boiling
2 tbsp. 30 mL lemon juice
Heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the dry couscous, the parsley, chives, lemon zest, thyme, salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, for one minute, until well combined. Add the boiling chicken broth and the lemon juice, stir, cover and remove from heat. Let the mixture sit, covered, for 5 to 7 minutes, or until the couscous is tender and all the liquid has been absorbed. Fluff with a fork and serve.
Below are 5 different traveling lessons I have picked up in the past few months that will hopefully help you get the most out of your journeys. They’re not sexy, but they work.
1) Wash Your Clothes Whenever You Get a Chance -
2) Develop a Hotel Room Exercise Routine -
3) Carry Lots of Cash -
4) "Thank You" is Universal, Tipping is Not -
5) Try to Speak the Language
Choreographer (and author of The Creative Habit) Twyla Tharp briefly discusses the roles of failure and money in creativity in a short video interview below. There are several good tidbits here, but in the instant-publishing internet age where everyone seems to be competing for the most YouTube views or highest web site traffic, I especially love the bits about how being creative for the sake of admiration and recognition is different than being creative simply because you want to make something. Here's the three-minute, 22-second clip.
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Are you in the right line of work? Should you be doing something else? Ask yourself the following questions:
I recognize that some of the questions seem the same, but sometimes asking the question differently yields different answers. Please share some of your answers or thoughts if you’re up for it.
I can answer the what to do with the rest of your life questions..for free...
I decided long ago (7 years ) when my sister-in-law (32 yrs died of brain cancer), cousin-in-law (34yrs died of cancer), uncle (46yrs died of brain cancer) left this earth that I need to rethink my life. At that moment I STOPPED looking at a JOB for my happiness...and saw my job as an opportunity to make the $$ I needed to Live the life I wanted after work. Sooo...I now have 3 jobs (4 if you count being a mom) , because I said ..."Gee when I retire...I want to teach", so I got a job teaching part-time (online and in person 1 day a week), then I said..."Gee, I want to start my own travel business" ... so I started a part-time business planning and selling small trips to friends and family - of which we get to go on with a lot of them. Then I said, "Gee, I would love to travel more..." and I used all of this part-time income to finance my monthly trips of at least one 4-day weekend, and make it so that we travel every holiday or day off during the year that we can.
So the morale of my story is....DON'T LET YOUR JOB define YOU or the life you LIVE when you leave work. DON'T LET the people you work with bring you down...REALIZE that YOU decide how people or a situation EFFECTS you. AND....live your bucket list...write down all the things you want to do if you retired and $$ was not an issue, and TRY to work them into your life today. That way the job you are working, is just a means to start to live the life you have yet to discover for yourself...and who ever said you needed to have the answers today...take your time and plan your adventure.
Who made the rule that you can only have 1 career your whole life, who made it so we couldn't change our minds? No one, Live your life saving each experience as an adventure to discovering yourself.
When I changed my outlook on what I do at work from my purpose in life, to a means to LIVE my life, I am a lot happier with all the things I do, even the things I did at work and at home that I felt were
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