Plucked fruits from surfing the web

• Cool rapid prototyping workshop design
• Viv McWaters has a nice post on the Open Space we did at the Applied Improv Conference, and how it flowed into other activities.

Feedy:

• Ole produces a primer to graphic facilitation.  This one is going in my resources list.

Food leads the feed this week:

• AskMetafilter has a great list of squash recipes for all those winter squash that are plentiful and cheap in the northern hemisphere right now.
• Terry Patten on exploring big questions in an integral world.  Good notes on polarity management and conscious evolution.
• CassetteBoy meets Sir Alan Sugar (and Spurs fans will love this revelatory takedown).
• Rosa Zubizarretta on Deepening Democracy.

In my work I often have to troll through long lists of pages of material looking for patterns and noting significant trends.  I largely don’t like doing this, as it often requires switching back and forth between the document I am reading and the one I am taking notes on and something about that bugs me.

Today though, I am working on a report and I inadvertently discovered a hack.  I started entering notes at the top of the document, but as I paged through, I noticed that my notes were appearing on every page.  I had accidently been typing them in a header window which repeated over every page.  This was very cool!  As I read each page, I just kept adding notes to the header window without ever having to scroll back to the top or go to another window.  When I finsihed, I just copied the text to a new document and started writing my summary report.

Thought I would share this little hack.  I never thought about using repeating elements in a Word or OpenOffice document like that before.

Intriguing beauties:

• Jeff Altman has digitized his grandfather’s home movies: San Francisco, 1958.
• Johnnie Moore on social creativity.
• Metafilter post on the WKBW Buffalo 1968 War of the Worlds scare.  Great stuff to curl up with this Hallowe’en!
• The New Scientist maps how small and connected our world has become.
• Geoff Brown with some fun=behaviour change videos.  Going to be fun working with him on this!
• Rob Paterson blogs about KETC’s approach to the flu: a new model for conversational leadership in news.
• Alex Kjerulf bounces into the weekend.