>> How to pronounce Sotomayor: “so-toe-my-YORE.” Click through to hear Sotomayor pronounce Sotomayor.

>> How to build a solar-powered house for just $10,000. Try tiny living:

In 2004, Williams sold her bungalow, shedding a mortgage payment of over $1,000 per month, and bought plans for an 84-square-foot house on wheels. It cost her $10,000 to build, a quarter of which went for photovoltaic panels that generate her electricity. Now her house is paid for, and her monthly bills total about $8—for heating.

Earlier: Your own private Thoreauvian cabin

>> How to deal with email overload: Make it a game. “Every employee is given virtual tokens — say, 100 a week, — that they can attach to e-mail they write…. When a work group at IBM tried out Attent, messages with 20 tokens attached were 52 percent more likely to be quickly opened than normal. E-mail overload ceased to be a problem.” My question: What if you’re a freelancer with email overload?

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