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I enjoyed watching Randy Pausch’s lecture on Time Management. It’s 87 minutes long, so start at the 12 minute mark to get to the actual lecture. Slides are available here.

I found this set of documents on Lifehacker, in an article called Randy Pausch’s Time Management Tricks. The Lifehacker link came through an article called Pausch’s time management tips on Sandee Oshiro’s excellent blog, Hawaii Hacks. This is one of the better blogs that I’ve seen from the Honolulu Advertiser, and I hope she posts more articles like this!

When you know your time is limited, time management should become a major priority. I doesn’t matter how you track your time… although using LEGO bricks to track tasks would make work seem more like play, I think. This tutorial called On LEGO Powered Time-Tracking; My Daily Column has details. I also found it on Lifehacker in this article called Time tracker: Track Your Time with LEGO Bricks.

LEGO celebrated the 50th anniversary of its first Danish patent on Monday. I grew up playing with a few tubs of LEGO – the basic blocks and some trays, no kits!

BusinessWeek posted a nice slideshow of LEGO’s manufacturing process. The company produces 19 billion LEGO bricks each year with very high quality standards: only 18 of every 1 million bricks is defective.

That’s 36,000 bricks each minute, and  more than 2 million an hour, according to Neatorama.

PopAndCo.com has a cute flash animation of the process. The audio track is loud, however.
LEGO is moving most of its brick manufacturing from Denmark to Mexico and the Czech Republic, according to the New York Times. US manufacturing and distribution is being moved to Mexican outsourcing firm Flextronics, according to this report.

In September 2007, SupplyChainDigest published a good report about how LEGO management came to this decision. Earlier attempts to fix the company’s value chain had helped, but outsourcing was a step the company was reluctant to take. LEGO toys are an important symbol in European lives.

On BoingBoing, an editor created a timelapse video while he built a 5000-piece, US$500 kit of the Millennium Falcon.

As a final note, the Wikipedia entry for LEGO closes with a brief discussion of the trademark.

Tech: Winston’s Lego Computer describes how a Hawaii man built a mini-ATX PC with a Lego chassis. This page loads slowly because there’s lots of image files.