Link parking

[luscious_purple]

I have way too many browser tabs open, so let me get rid of a few here.

A new model of the origin of the Earth-Moon system:
http://nautil.us/issue/13/symmetry/when-the-earth-had-two-moons

Steampunk podcast:
http://steampunkfamily.podbean.com/

Sixth-century manuscript decoded by spectroscopy:
http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/print/volume-50/issue-06/newsbreaks/sixth-century-manuscript-makeup-decoded-via-spectroscopy.html

Wikipedia recently featured Wells Cathedral, one of the places I've visited in England:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Cathedral

Comcast plans to turn its paying customers into free hot spots:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/184263-comcast-turns-50000-paying-customer-homes-into-public-hotspots-millions-more-by-the-end-of-the-year

Just before the world marked the 70th anniversary of D-Day, Sir Winston Churchill's last living child died. She was quite the badass in her day:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/world/europe/mary-soames-daughter-of-churchill-and-chronicler-of-history-dies-at-91.html?hpw&rref=books&_r=4

Stupid password tricks:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/05/21/security_questions_one_time_passwords_two_stupid_password_tricks_i.html

What things are like for young people today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/opinion/sunday/starting-out-behind.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

What the hell is wrong with America?
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Americawhat-the-hell-is-wrong-with-us.html

Current politics of the ISS:
http://www.nature.com/news/space-station-science-ramps-up-1.15388

Forget universal preschool -- we need a 13th grade:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/06/10/forget-universal-preschool-we-need-a-13th-grade/?hpid=z10

What ever happened to LiveJournal, anyway?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/10/whatever-happened-to-livejournal-anyway/

This week Republicans killed Elizabeth Warren's plan to ease Americans' crushing student loan debt:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/republicans-filibustered-elizabeth-warren-bill-student-loans

Growing partisan rancor:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/12/five-charts-that-show-how-conservatives-are-driving-partisan-rancor-in-dc/

This town's local friendly maker club:
http://www.voanews.com/content/couple-turns-science-into-community-affair/1932671.html

A private browser thing I might want to try:
https://www.surfeasy.com/private_browser/

Some career thing to read later:
http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Finding-Happiness-at-Work-with-Advice-from-Marcus-Buckingham

Comments

Comcast Xfinity WiFi

[blaisedec]

The article about Comcast Wifi is overblown and biased, doing its best to paint this as inarguably a bad thing. I actually work on that project, so if you want a point by point debunking of the scare tactics in the article, just ask. But to address the immediate concerns, firstly each customer is notified long enough before the service goes live to opt out before it is turned on in the first place, and secondly we can indeed track back to which mac address behind the router received the information (so a customer won't be blamed for what someone else did through his router).