Buy new socks. Get a haircut. Learn to speak Tamil. Become an astronaut. These are four of nearly 600,000 life goals posted on 43things.com, a digital library of the world's ink-smeared to-do lists. The "structured blog" invites users to list as many as 43 goals and chart their progress with brief entries. Participants can browse each others' goals, leaving encouragement and getting ideas about things to do. "It's more like a life list than a to-do list," said Josh Peterson, one of the seven founders of 43things.com. "It's not about the 10 things I want to do this week; it's more about the 10 most important things in my life that I never write on my to-do list."
