- Well, look at that. Here all these years you thought Microsoft products were just buggy. But where the NSA and MS are concerned, those aren’t bugs; they’re features. (H/T H)
- New: Prism-Break.org. Products to use instead of the Usual Suspects.*
- One of those is StartPage, of course. And while you’re in the position of having to take their word for it, this is a pretty good statement of principle.
- Why skipping college could be a good idea. And UnCollege.org.
- Jim Bovard (that is, Mr. Bovard, according to the WSJ bio; have I been too informal all these years?) on the virtues of AmeriCorps.
- “The Soul-Rape of Bradley Manning.” This superb piece by Wendy McElroy has already and deservedly gotten a lot of electron time. I’ve been meaning to base a think piece of my own on it, but since I haven’t quite gotten there, I thought I’d just add one more link to the masses it’s already received.
- I’ve been kind of sorry that the local Big City has only a Home Depot, not a Lowes. I like ’em both, but always liked Lowes a little better. But damn, the co-founder of Home Depot has him some style and some guts.
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Some are highly tested and reliable; others less well vetted. Some are open source; some maybe not. But considering the alternatives …
Hey Claire,
I’ve found an article that’s right up your alley.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/why-wanting-expensive-things-makes-us-so-much-happier-than-buying-them/276717/
And this one is another brick of the prepper movement.
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/1549-learn-a-post-collapse-trade-before-its-too-late
Thanks for the clip from the founder of Home Depot. I’ve always had a slight preference for HD over Lowes (I have several of both near me, and both are fine), but this just makes me like HD even more.
Claire, I’m amazed at some of the stuff you come up with. The Prism Break site looks very good. One of their recommended search sites, DuckDuckGo, worked fine for finding out what “OT” means in a blog. I’m so out of it.
JB: Those are both very good sites, thanks. Now I know that all the days (weeks? months? years?) I’ve spent drooling over potential toys were not wasted but were actually productive.