No Downtime Day: 7:30 am

Good morning! For those who don't know, I'm trying a little experiment today as part of the "Getting Things Done" time-management system I use in my life, which I'm calling a "No Downtime Day" -- where I try to go 16 hours in a row without any "vegging" activities like television, goofing off online, etc. I thought it'd be fun, then, to occasionally throw up posts here at my blog as well, letting everyone know how the experiment is going and what I've been doing over that particular chunk of time. If this is successful, then, I'll add such an activity to my GTD system on a semi-regular basis; not just daily processing and a weekly review, that is, but maybe a monthly No Downtime Day as well.

Anyway, it's 7:30am as I write this, and I've been up for about an hour now; I've spent that time reviewing about 300 of the 400 websites I try to scan each day (via RSS feeds). Since I hardly ever post links to other things, in fact, I thought it'd be fun today to run a list of each and every item I ended up clicking on and reading in detail; here we go...

Today's "Penny Arcade" comic strip.
The Criterion Contraption reviews "The Last Temptation of Christ."
The Onion AV Club explains why "Edison Force" sucked.
The Saks Fifth Avenue store in New York buys its own freakin' zip code.
New report says that we should declare tobacco a controlled substance and regulate it under the FDA.
People will be able to pet stingrays at the Brookfield Zoo this summer.
FOX is making a movie of "The Sims." No, seriously.
CHUD.com explains why "Insomnia" and "Cradle Will Rock" were both disappointing movies.
Screenshots from Wednesday's "Lost" finale.
The San Francisco Chronicle's take on the "Lost" finale.
YouTube: Tom Snyder interviews a bunch of Star Trek people in 1976.
A 17-hour marathon of all six "Star Wars" movies has been showing overnight at the LA Convention Center.
The Chicago Tribune's take on the "Lost" finale.
"Lost" Easter Egg proves that flash-forwards happened on April 5, 2007.

Okay, so that's it for now; more computer work to do at the moment, then around 9:00 I'm going to get on my bike and start making my way to the Loop. Or, er, maybe...actually, the weather here in Chicago today is shittier than I expected, so maybe I'll put off the long bike ride for another day.