{"id":38963,"date":"2021-08-29T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=38963"},"modified":"2021-08-23T10:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T17:44:56","slug":"divergent-association-taskflat-plugyoutube-premium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/divergent-association-taskflat-plugyoutube-premium\/","title":{"rendered":"Divergent Association Task\/Flat plug\/YouTube Premium"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A tool to measure divergent thinking<\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve been using this\u00a0Divergent Association Task<\/a>\u00a0to measure my verbal creativity. It takes less than 2 minutes and involves thinking of 10 words that are as different from each other as possible. The test was designed by a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, and\u00a0according to the study<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which involved 9,000 participants all over the world \u2014 people who are more creative generate words that have greater distances between them. You can choose to participate in the study anonymously or not. I\u2019ve been taking the test everyday to try to beat my own score. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Extension cord with right angled plug<\/strong>
\nMy mother-in-law got a new bed and the headboard was squashing the extension cord plugged into the wall. I bought this\u00a0SlimLine Flat Plug extension cord<\/a>\u00a0with a right-angled plug and it solved the problem. It has a low-profile and the cord comes out parallel to the wall. Just what we needed! \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

YouTube without ads<\/strong>
\nI finally decided to pay for YouTube. Now with\u00a0YouTube Premium<\/a>\u00a0I see no ads of any kind. Given the many hours I spend every day on YouTube this upgrade has been life changing. I already had an adblocker on my browser, but that did not work 100% of the time, and I also watch a lot of YouTube on my TV via Roku, which can\u2019t block ads.\u00a0 For $12 per month all that nonsense is gone, and I get YouTube music as well, which can stream in the background if wanted, and download videos for offline (airplane) viewing. Thanks to my friend Hugh, who kept insisting I needed Premium; you were right. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

“10 things” rule for decluttering<\/strong>
\nBefore I transition from one room to another I try to grab 10 things that I can put away and clean up. If you have kids and want to get the whole family to participate check out\u00a0this Apartment Therapy article<\/a>\u00a0for tips on how to implement it. When I read this ridiculously simple rule for keeping your house clean it was both an\u00a0aha<\/em>\u00a0moment and a\u00a0duh<\/em>\u00a0moment. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Interpretive dances inspired by hydraulic presses squishing things<\/strong>
\nMy Boing Boing friend David Pescovitz wrote about this\u00a0incredible video of Smac McCreanor\u2019s interpretive dances<\/a>\u00a0running side-by-side with videos of hydraulic presses squishing things like books, mugs, fruit, cookies, and kitchen tools. Brilliant. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Search tip<\/strong>
\nAn under-appreciated Google search trick is to focus your search by excluding all unwanted alternative meanings \u2014 you append a minus sign in front of the term(s), as in < dolphins -miami > for non football dolphins or < orange -color -telecom > for the fruit. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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