Links for May 13, 2008

• Is Religion a Figment of the Human Imagination? Maybe so, maybe not. But what's more interesting here is the idea that imagination is what separates humans from the rest of the species. So why don't you see dogs driving cars? They couldn't imagine themselves doing it.

• How is Twitter Helping or Hurting Your Blog? Twitter offers a dual edged sword to bloggers: you can spend more time Tweeting than blogging, but it can also help drive traffic to your blog. follow me on Twitter.

• Why you should use Friendfeed As concise a guide as any I've seen, and more useful than most. Friendfeed can be as noisy or quiet as you want it to be. Louis Gray shows you how in this interview. (By the way, I'm also on Friendfeed.)

• Lifting Weights: Not Necessarily for Vanity I weight train 3 days a week, but I really go to the gym to use the treadmill. This has me rethinking.

• 6 New Ways to Break Through Writer's Block Other than making lists of links like this one, good suggestions for using recommendation engines and writing comments to jump start your writing.

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