Amazing visualization of data by Information is Beautiful. This makes me want to use the parental controls to permanently block Hulu and Netflix streaming from my computer. Since moving to the beach for the summer and being mostly cut off from the internet (except for my iPhone and the occasional coffee shop) I’ve been much more productive and have been feeling much more creative.

I read another interesting statistic recently as well that TV viewing is apparently up again this year. I know that I personally gave up my TV and computer four or five years ago, but with Hulu and Netflix I’ve been watching a lot more TV than I used to. 

And while I’m on the subject, Self Control is a great free app to select certain websites to block for a specified period of time. Be warned though, once you start the timer you cannot shut it off till it runs out. No restarting or switching users or putting in administrator passwords will get you your poison. So test it for a short time before setting it for 24 hours or something.