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Safe Shepherd Protects Your Social Networks, Keeps Your Data Off of Creepy People Search Engines Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Safe Shepherd is a privacy protection service that already scrubs your personal data from creepy people search engines, but the service also now keeps tabs on your social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram to make…
government movement by Dennis O’Reilly, cnet.com In his first term, President Obama started to make good on his pledge to improve government transparency. But a truly open government depends on citizens actively ensuring that all public agencies share information and respond to feedback. Four… http://flip.it/o2uzr Related articles Has Obama Kept His Open-Government Pledge? (gantdaily.com) Has…
How to Pick a Career You Actually Like Penelope Trunk, lifehacker.com Most career problems stem from the fact that we are terrible at picking jobs. We think we are picking a good job and then it turns out to be a bad job. It’s almost impossible to pick a good job on the first try,…
The Personal Analytics of My Life stephenwolfram.com One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed lots of other people were doing it too… http://flip.it/RrQhl Related articles Big (personal)…
skyrill.com In democracies1, the driver of change is typically elections; in autocracies, it is typically biology. It is often said that autocratic leaders are therefore less likely to be educated. Leaders’ education level has been fou… How educated are world leaders? http://flip.it/ITeiQ http://flip.it/RfOhA How educated are world leaders? Related articles MECA Day One…In The…
Jan Wächter, datavisualization.ch We’ve compiled a small list of conferences definitely worth visiting in 2013. Events like this are a great way to see, learn, connect and be inspired. If you’re lucky enough to get a ticket, be sure to let us know so we could meet up and have a… RT @datavis: As if…
Working in America geblogs.com Jobs are definitely a top of mind subject. Did you know that manufacturing jobs were the largest sector of employment in 1960, yet today the category has fallen to 6th place? In this interactive visualization, browse who has bee… RT @Periscopic: Very excited to announce the launch of our latest data…
RT @Techmeme: Restaurants Turn Camera Shy (Helene Stapinski / New York Times) http://flip.it/0A1K6 http://flip.it/3O9zY http://flip.it/jJpeX Related articles Should Restaurants Ban Food Photography? (neatorama.com) IHOP Franchisee Selects DTT for Enterprise-Wide Roll Out (prweb.com) Restaurant Charging $200/Person Has The Gall To Tell Diners They Can’t Take Photos (businessinsider.com) Weekend reads: Restaurant food photos get controversial (mnn.com)…
Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy Tomio Geron, forbes.com On paper, Frederic Larson is just one data point in five years of U.S. government statistics showing underemployment in dozens of industries and stagnant income growth across the board. The 63-year-old photographer with two child… RT @Techmeme: Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of…
Can a High-Tech ‘Biological Passport’ End Sports Doping Forever? Sam Laird, mashable.com Lance Armstrong says it helped scare him off performance-enhancing drugs forever. It’s already been implemented in track and field as well as cycling, and world tennis authorities are now considering adding it to their arsenal as well.It’s called … http://flip.it/ZpQkh Related articles WADA…
Could public urination be good for the environment? By Susie Cagle, grist.org “Pee planters,” fruit fences, and LED hopscotch might sound like a normal weekend in San Francisco, but the Urban Prototyping Festival isn’t exactly aiming for normal. Click to embiggen. Part art-installation festival, part pop-… RT @grist: Could public urination be good for the…
Out of the cage and onto the grass: Helping pastured eggs go mainstream By Claire Thompson, grist.org Most laying hens in the U.S. are raised in cages with up to eight other birds, with barely enough space to turn around, much less walk. They eat antibiotic-laced feed made from genetically engineered grain and the ground-up…
Williams-Sonoma’s ‘Agrarian’ products take pretentious and self-satisfied to new heights By Sarah Miller, grist.org Have you always wanted to live off the land, but you were burdened with an overfull trust fund and too many butlers? Well, say hello to Williams-Sonoma Agrarian, your portal for spending gazillions of dollars on backyard farming. Wit… http://flip.it/Jhvml Related…
Fart-eating underpants could do a lot for air pollution By Sarah Miller, grist.org I have been wanting to alter my rather closed-minded opinion that Japanese culture is really weird, but I guess I’m going to have to say sayonara to that idea, at least for today — because a Japanese textile company has invented… RT…
Best bed-bug poison may be Merck meds for humans By Susie Cagle, grist.org From hotel beds to movie theater seats, it seems bed bugs are absolutely everywhere these days (and if they’re not, oh god, they might be, so you’ll drive yourself insane investigating every little speck you spot). Standard methods for… RT @grist: Best…
Buy or die: The survivalist approach to climate doom By Susie Cagle, grist.org Climate change is coming! Quick, buy more stuff!! That’s the advice from the New York Times Magazine feature “How to Survive Societal Collapse in Suburbia.” Wait, don’t laugh yet — we’ll get to that. First, meet Ron Douglas, a… RT @grist: A…
The world has ended, or just about. Now, what wine do you drink with broiled rats and steamed slug? By Sarah Miller, grist.org Finally, someone has written an important article about something that actually means something to me: what kind of wine we are going to drink with the disgusting vermin we have to eat…
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