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.
