[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- HOW TO: Protect Yourself From Firesheep With a VPN
- [Mashable! - Jolie O'Dell]
- Interview Show and Tell
- [About.com Job Searching]
He realized that he was going about interviewing the wrong way. He was trying to sell himself, he says, rather than showing insight in the industry and sharing tips on how he could help the company…
- Securing & Optimizing Linux: The Hacking Solution (Free PDF Guide)
- A comprehensive collection of Linux security products and explanations in the most simple and structured manner on how to safely and easily configure and run many popular Linux-based applications and services.
- 3 Things You’ll Hear about the Election Tomorrow That are Total Bullshit
- [Firedoglake - Blue Texan]
1) The electorate punished the Democrats for “over-reaching.” Very Serious People like George Will and Jeb Bush are already saying this, and it’s absurd on its face. The simple retort: what did Obama and the Democrats do that they didn’t explicitly campaign on? …
2) Obama should move to the middle if he wants to save his presidency. …where exactly is this “center” he’s supposed to move to? Between Jim DeMint and Lindsay Graham, apparently….
3) Republicans will now be more sensible and work with Obama to get things done. David Brooks trotted this one out today and it’s just absolutely hilarious. In the Senate, you’ve got Mitch McConnell (R-KY) saying his goal for the next two years is to destroy Obama, while in the House, you’ve got John Boehner (R-OH) saying “we will not compromise.”
- This week, Firefly’s Shepherd Book finally gets an origin story!
- [io9 - Cyriaque Lamar]
Derrial Book was one of the most enigmatic characters on Firefly, and almost a decade after the show premiered, we're finally getting some answers in the good Shepherd's very own graphic novel.
- Newsflash: The Summer of 2011 Movies Will Have No Women Leads
- [Women & Hollywood - Melissa Silverstein]
- Robo-Call Tells Kansas Voters That They Need Proof Of Home Ownership To Vote ‘On Wednesday’
- [Think Progress - Zaid Jilani]
- Black-White employment gaps drag on
- [Family Inequality - Philip Cohen]
- Trick-or-Treat, In Reverse
- [YES! Magazine - Christa Hillstrom]
This Halloween, a new breed of activists is coming to your door: They’re costumed, committed, and about four and a half feet tall…
Reverse Trick-or-Treating is a project of Global Exchange, a human rights organization that promotes Fair Trade Certification as the best alternative to, well, unfair trade. Other fair trade organizations and businesses partner on the campaign, but the program is more than an opportunity for fair trade businesses to push their own products. It has twin goals: convincing major players in the chocolate industry, like Hershey, to switch to fairly sourced cacao, and teaching children the value of activism before they’ve learned the meaning of cynicism. It takes “a gimme gimme holiday,” said one participating parent, and turns it “into a giving back holiday.”
- Adopt an Obsolete Word from the Oxford English Dictionary
- [GOOD - Siobhan O'Connor]
The Oxford English Dictionary has launched something very charming and playful: a campaign to save forgotten words from obsolescence. As you move your mouse over the collage of words they call out for you to pick them, and when you click, a definition pops up, as well as an invitation to adopt it. I just adopted primifluous.
[WARNING: THE WORDS ACTUALLY TALK. -L]
- Future-Jobs-O-Matic Tells Your Job’s Future
- [GOOD - Alex Goldmark]
APM's Marketplace has created this handy dandy "Future-Jobs-O-Matic" to forecast the future health of different jobs and industries. Plus, the snarky commentary breaks the bad news to you with a dose of humor.
- Anti-bullying campaigns: why not for rape?
- [fertilefeminism.com]
- Ida Tarbell
- [About.com Women's History]
Part of the muckraking tradition of American journalism, Ida Tarbell took on Standard Oil and other corporate interests, exposing corruption. Read more:…
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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