Right now I have a combo of Ghostery, NoScript, and AdBlock. A few months ago I used DoGood (http://dogoodhq.com/) which replaces ads with thoughtful messages or sometimes ads for eco-friendly companies. Too bad they haven't updated their extension to work with the latest version of FF.

agnostic --> analog ?

My recommendation would be Time Management for System Administrators (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007836). It has lots of little tips and short anecdotes.