November's Monthly Picks.

I've started to gather links to truly important things on the Internet that I find. I'm going to post about them once a month. I got bored of the daily lists.



The first is about copyright and the Internet. I'm sure if you've been on the internet much at all you understand that this is a big deal to a lot of people. There are some good reasons for that. See The Grand Unified Theory On The Economics Of Free, In case you're still not convinced, have a history of the Entertainment Industry overreacting.



Next is for fools like me who thought sexism was an old faded thing with only a few scraps left on its corpse. Sexual internet abuse, often without even the courtesy of being truly anonymous, is thriving. See On Blogging, Threats, and Silence.



The next one is a little weird. It's a post from the growing movement of people who don't use soap(except on their hands) or shampoo. It makes sense when you look into it. Soaps are detergents that wipe out all the oils in your skin. Your skin needs oils. Your body adapts, and produces more oils, so if you don't use it for a couple days you have too many. I've started doing this myself. See I’ve given up using soap & shampoo forever.



I've been learning a lot lately about how to manage personal finances. I thought this was a good example of important stuff people don't think about because it's so easy to follow. See cost-of-commuting.



The next is written by someone that seems a little sketchy, but the story he tells seems inspirational to me. I've always had an instinct to escape the grid. The world IS insane, most jobs are just make-work to include people in the economic process. Our current system needs inefficiency to work, and I dislike inefficiency. See How to Drop Out.

 The site for this article is down as I write this, but it's an insightful work about population, inspired by the world population reaching 7 Billion this month. Too many humans.



Biased news reports, economic revolution, Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not.

Another financial post. Ariel has been mad over my adoption of the cost-per-calorie unit. It's useful though. Learn to start Grocery Shopping With Your Middle Finger. 



This is sort of a financial post, but for me it's more of an “OMG I love learning about construction, why the hell don't I BUILD things more often!?” type of post. See  What is Thermal Mass and How can it Make you Money?



Apparently Noam Chomsky is kind of insane, but I found this to be a wonderful piece on the Occupy movement. See Noam Chomsky Speaks to Occupy.



Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet) is useful to everyone that ever wants to find information on the internet. A minority, I'm sure



How To Repair a Headphone Cable is a good DIY article for a problem we all have, eventually.



My last post might just be the coolest. For me, anyway. As a technophile and anti-capitalist, I have some conflicting interests. I want to support great content on the web, but I can't stand ads(and usually have no interest in buying merch). There exists technology to tell if an ad has been loaded, and adblockers directly impact how much money a content-provider makes. I run an adblocker anyway. I wanted an alternative to ads to make a better, less commercial Internet. I found one. Flattr uses embedded buttons in sites, like Facebook likes, to automatically split money between sites whose content you liked. Just pay a bit, and every month your money goes out to support great content.