Happy Anniversary to Me!
My marriage has made double digits! That's pretty good.
A lot has changed in the last ten years; I wonder what'll happen in the next ten!
Links!
A lot has changed in the last ten years; I wonder what'll happen in the next ten!
Links!
- Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
- Self-Censorship
- Someone Is Trying to Save You From Awful Books at the Boston Public Library "Noluckboston....[is] tagging books based off the 'Awful Library Books' blog, which two public librarians in Michigan have been running since 2009." Related: Awful Library Books It's been on my RSS feed for a long time!
- First Look Inside The Boston Library's Astonishing, Colorful Renovation
- San Jose: Public library gets $35k for online privacy literacy prototype
- Feb 22, 1892: Edna St. Vincent Millay is born
- Net & Tech
- Five ways open data can boost democracy around the world "Want fairer taxes, less corporate lobbying and more open politicians? Here’s how open data can help"
- Hyping Mythical Internet Taxes, New York Times Legitimizes A Net Neutrality Study Long Debunked
- Putting a Price on Privacy: $29 "That’s the pitch AT&T is making to customers in Kansas City and Austin where it sells an ultra-fast Internet service that it calls GigaPower. Customers can buy the service for a starting price of $70 a month if they agree to have AT&T track their Internet browsing under a program called Internet Preferences. Customers who refuse tracking have to pay $29 a month more."
- What President Obama is getting wrong about encryption
- Bush jumps into privacy fight, backs controversial NSA program
- Google Calls FBI's Plan to Expand Hacking Power a 'Monumental' Constitutional Threat
- Cheap Solar Cells Made From Shrimp Cells
- Science
- CT Scan of 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue Reveals Mummified Monk Hidden Inside
- Genes Connected to Autism Active During Fetal Development
- Drug-Resistant Malaria Detected In India
- Education
- Public schools aren't failing
- Schools Weigh Access to Students' Social-Media Passwords
- U. of Tulsa Suspends Student for Someone Else’s Facebook Post
- Authority Issues
- Other
- Willacy County Prison Taken Over By Thousands Of Inmates "The large Kevlar tents that make up the facility were described in a 2014 report by the American Civil Liberties Union as not 'only foul, cramped and depressing, but also overcrowded.' The report said that inmates reported that their medical concerns were often ignored by staff and that corners were often cut when it came to health care. Brian McGiverin, a prisoners' rights attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, said that he was not surprised inadequate medical care could ignite a riot. He said medical care is grossly underfunded in prisons, especially in ones run by private contractors. 'It's pretty abysmal with regard to modern standards how people should be treated, pretty much anywhere you go,' he said."
