[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Facebook Disconnect Wipes Out All Evidence of Facebook
- [ReadWriteWeb - Mike Melanson]
Facebook Disconnect is a quickly-developed plugin by Google engineer Brian Kennish that blocks all traffic from third-party sites to Facebook servers, but still lets you use Facebook itself.
"Facebook is notified whenever you visit one of the more than one million sites on the web that use Facebook Connect," writes Kennish in the extension's desciption, "and has a history of leaking personally identifiable information to third parties."
…We installed the extension and made our way around the Web and found that it was quite effective. Almost all evidence of Facebook's existence was wiped out…
- Clenched Muscles Assist Self-Control
- [Scientific American]
You’re trying to exercise willpower–to avoid eating that second piece of cake or buying an electronic toy you don’t really need. Try firming up your muscles. Any muscles.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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