Thursday evening linkfest

How to tie your shoes 16(!) different ways. I don't know if I'll actually implement this, but it's good for keeping yourself on your toes and "rejecting the status quo." via Seth Godin

Fitness and health genius. Art De Vany's site is called Evolutionary Fitness and tackles exercise, health, his life, and living from an evolutionary perspective. He's almost 70 and has the body of a 32 year old. If you want to lose weight, get stronger, or just live healthier, check out the Evolutionary Fitness archives. Check out his essay (pdf format) for an introduction.

In honor of the Fulbright Jeju spring conference being two weeks away, and the fact that the big topic is how to improve the orientation for next year's Fulbright ETA's (our orientation had a TON of meetings), I thought I'd provide some thoughts about how to improve the efficiency of meetings:

• Why do we still believe in group brainstorming?
• Meetings considered harmful
• You still want meetings, here's how to make them useful
• The best presentation is sometimes no presentation