Archive for September, 2013

The Wedding Data: What Marriage Notices Say About Social Change – Megan Garber – The Atlantic

Sunday, September 8th, 2013

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/the-wedding-data-what-marriage-notices-say-about-social-change/279411/

How to Secure the Castle – NYTimes.com

Sunday, September 8th, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/garden/how-to-secure-the-castle.html?pagewanted=all

4 Ways to Tie a Tie – wikiHow

Sunday, September 8th, 2013

three quarters of the way down the third button is the optimum place to put a tie !

http://www.wikihow.com/Tie-a-Tie

Adam Gopnik: The New Neuro-Skeptics : The New Yorker

Sunday, September 8th, 2013

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/09/09/130909crbo_books_gopnik?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter

Encouraging citation of software – introducing CITATION files | Software Sustainability Institute

Sunday, September 8th, 2013

http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2013-09-02-encouraging-citation-software-introducing-citation-files

N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption – NYTimes.com

Saturday, September 7th, 2013

#NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption, hurting credibility of
private-company solutions v opensource http://nyti.ms/1aaj0QI MT @BrianBrownNet

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html

How NSA weakens encryption to access internet traffic – tech – 06 September 2013 – New Scientist

Saturday, September 7th, 2013

How #NSA weakens encryption to access internet traffic: tricks like degrading random number generation
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24165-how-nsa-weakens-encryption-to-access-internet-traffic.html MT @contactmzn

Wiped out: The race to save our video heritage – tech – 28 August 2013 – New Scientist

Friday, September 6th, 2013

Wiped out: race to save our #video heritage b/c ’70s magnetic tape is now rotting http://bit.ly/1dVHiQW MT @justcoachit #archiving

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929311.500-wiped-out-the-race-to-save-our-video-heritage.html

Don’t swallow it: Six health myths you should ignore – New Scientist

Friday, September 6th, 2013

6 #health myths you should ignore: drinking lots of water, doing a detox, taking antiox vitamins… http://owl.li/odmDN MT @BiotechBizGuy http://www.newscientist.com/special/six-health-myths

How NSA weakens encryption to access internet traffic – tech – 06 September 2013 – New Scientist

Friday, September 6th, 2013

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24165-how-nsa-weakens-encryption-to-access-internet-traffic.html#.UioMHnc3eWk?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=twitter&cmpid=SOC%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL-twitter