Links

It’s been quite a long time since I’ve put up a Links post. I’ve been trying to be a bit more judicious about the links, only marking things as important if they really are important. But, that said, here are some links for you all. Enjoy!

1. Letter: White House guilty of censorship by stealth in seeking YouTube removal     2 October 2012, 2:03 am
2. The Joy of Quiet     26 September 2012, 4:23 pm
3. Hidden Under Garbage: Abandoned Cabaret Theater Discovered in Berlin     25 September 2012, 8:51 am
4. Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name     21 September 2012, 7:32 pm
5. Women in Business: Surprise Backers Edge Germany Toward Gender Quota     20 September 2012, 7:15 am
6. Why British police don’t have guns     19 September 2012, 2:14 pm
7. Golden Goose Awards: Your Tax Dollars at Work for Science Research     19 September 2012, 12:12 pm
8. Freedom Not Fear: Creating a Surveillance-Free Internet     15 September 2012, 9:53 am
9. Federal Circuit Expands Patent Eligibility in Spite of S. Ct. Rulings     15 September 2012, 9:52 am
10. One Book I Love: Happy Families (by Tanita Davis) | laurasalas     8 September 2012, 9:18 pm
11. Bruce Willis to fight Apple over rights to music collection after his death     5 September 2012, 9:52 am
12. Gorgeous Decay: The Second Death of the Swedish Warship Vasa     3 September 2012, 3:30 am
13. Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes     30 August 2012, 3:30 am
14. Who inherits your iTunes library when you die?     27 August 2012, 7:18 pm
15. An Immune Disorder at the Root of Autism     27 August 2012, 1:09 pm
16. Gender Gap in IT Labor Market Remains Wide: Survey     27 August 2012, 11:27 am
17. Darpa Has Seen the Future of Computing…and It’s Analog     24 August 2012, 10:20 am
18. UNESCO Says Monopolization of Information Puts Barriers to a Better Life     23 August 2012, 3:56 pm
19. Nanoparticle Pollution Could Stunt Crop Growth     23 August 2012, 9:30 am
20. Antibiotics Might Be Fueling Obesity Epidemic     22 August 2012, 11:43 am
21. US government buys technology to spy on employees     21 August 2012, 6:50 am
22. How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree     20 August 2012, 5:12 pm
23. What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success     20 August 2012, 3:26 pm
24. How Americans view wealth and inequality     20 August 2012, 2:29 pm
25. Inconvenient truth hiding behind the excitement about educating girls.     18 August 2012, 4:07 pm
26. To Make Sure Criminals Get No Location Privacy, the 6th Circuit Kills It for Everyone Else Too     15 August 2012, 11:20 am
27. Germans Reopen Facebook Privacy Inquiry     15 August 2012, 10:26 am
28. Independent labs to verify high-profile papers     14 August 2012, 1:17 pm
29. Appeals Court OKs Warrantless, Real-Time Mobile Phone Tracking     14 August 2012, 1:06 pm
30. Income inequality, as seen from space     14 August 2012, 12:27 pm
31. A New Species Discovered … On Flickr     14 August 2012, 11:57 am
32. White House Deletes TSA Petition     14 August 2012, 11:43 am
33. Schneier on Security: Fun with Secret Questions     14 August 2012, 11:42 am
34. The effect of typefaces on credibility     9 August 2012, 1:21 pm
35. United States – Photographer attacked as aggression against journalists continues     9 August 2012, 7:40 am
36. The Plutocratic Tradition in America     8 August 2012, 9:55 pm
37. Linux founder Linus Torvalds delivers a smackdown like no other     8 August 2012, 9:46 pm
38. Microsoft sticks to its guns, keeps Do Not Track on by default in IE10     8 August 2012, 11:43 am
39. New Jersey Mom Puts Kids To Bed With Math     7 August 2012, 11:48 pm
40. How Not to Become Mat Honan: A Short Primer on Online Security     7 August 2012, 12:12 pm
41. Communications Data Bill: Technology is making dystopia not just possible, but cheap     7 August 2012, 4:40 am
42. How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking     6 August 2012, 5:36 pm
43. Court Battles Over Warrantless DNA Collection Heating Up     2 August 2012, 9:39 am
44. Stocks Perform Better if Women Are on Company Boards     1 August 2012, 5:51 pm
45. Gore Vidal: The end of liberty     1 August 2012, 7:29 am
46. United States – A week of campaign against the Senate vote on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012     1 August 2012, 6:01 am
47. The Dark Side of Geek Feminism     31 July 2012, 10:33 am
48. The year 2000 illustrated in 1900     31 July 2012, 10:30 am
49. For More Pianos, Last Note Is Thud in the Dump     31 July 2012, 10:09 am
50. The state of the music industry     31 July 2012, 10:09 am
51. The Boston Globe gets a look at a DB of every bomb the US has ever dropped     30 July 2012, 12:19 pm
52. Natural Gas Fracking Industry May Be Paying Off Scientists     30 July 2012, 3:00 am
53. NSA Chief Tells Hackers His Agency Doesn’t Create Dossiers on All Americans     27 July 2012, 5:22 pm
54. This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life and Help Overthrow Your Government     27 July 2012, 9:15 am
55. Revolutionizing Archaeology: Flying Lasers Reveal Buried Historical Structures     27 July 2012, 8:38 am
56. PCC rejects Bell Pottinger’s complaint against Bureau investigation     26 July 2012, 2:55 am
57. Comic for July 8, 2012     7 July 2012, 10:00 pm