On: Email sucks. Time saving tips from Kevin Rose

[callahad]

Then may I suggest the Readability bookmarklet from Arc90? It's available at http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Or you could use Safari 5, which has it built in.

Aesthetics are a terrible grounds upon which to dismiss textual information.

[omaranto → callahad]

You're right about aesthetics being terrible, shallow grounds for dismissal but there is one instance I can't bring myself to be sensible about: old math books that are typewritten with hand-written formulas. I've managed to read papers that are like but so far refuse to read entire books...