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Leave it to WikiHow to have this very helpful entry explaining how to block Facebook’s Beacon. It includes a nice summary of how Beacon invades your space:

“When a Facebook user purchases an item at one of these websites, Facebook provides a way for the user to advertise their purchase on their Facebook News Feed.[2] While users can decline sending out the advertising, Facebook does not allow users to opt out of the data collection and behavior monitoring.[3][4] Even if you opt out, click “no thanks”, and log out of Facebook, Beacon will still be surreptitiously collecting your web browsing behavior data and sending it to Facebook. [5][6] “

and then describes their tips, the first being to USE FIREFOX.

http://www.wikihow.com/Block-Facebook-Beacon

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From: info@climateprotect.org
Subject: Stand with me in Bali
Date: December 5, 2007 3:31:53 PM EST

Dear Friend,
In Bali, Indonesia thousands of delegates from nearly 190 countries have gathered at the UN Conference on Climate Change. In ten days, I will address the conference to urge the adoption of a visionary new treaty to address global warming and I want to bring your voices with me.

Click here to sign my petition today and I will bring your signatures on stage with me as a clear demonstration of our resolve:
http://climateprotect.org/standwithalRead more »

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from Computerworld

“November 30, 2007 (IDG News Service) — A CA security researcher is sounding the alarm that Facebook’s controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than anyone has imagined in tracking people’s Web activities outside the popular social networking site.

Beacon will report back to Facebook on members’ activities on third-party sites that participate in Beacon — even if the users are logged off Facebook and have declined having their activities broadcast to their Facebook friends. “

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From Think Simple Now:

“I find that I prefer living places with lots of lighting, wood floors, open space and high ceilings. Personally, this gives me the most effective amount of creative energy boost. In addition to the physical surroundings that make me feel best, I’ve also found that the clutter in my environment negatively affect my performance. When I am surrounded by mess and disorganization, I feel more mentally cluttered, less decisive, slightly anxious and more easily annoyed. I’ve learned that in order to be at my best, I needed my physical surrounding to be clean, organized and clutter free.”

Read the specific tips at http://thinksimplenow.com/clarity/how-to-cure-packrat-itis/

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Via Pingdom

“Old Apples never get rotten – instead they run the Web
November 30, 2007Apple and the Macintosh computers have a loyal following dating back long before the first iPod ever hit the streets. There are millions of old Macs in circulation, and as would be expected in these days of the internet and tinkering enthusiasts, some of them have ended up as web servers. An old Mac obviously never gets useless.”
Full story at Pingdom


 Pingdom’s source for their story was The Old Apple Web Server Directory
Old Apple Web Server Directory

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Compelling graphic showing the rise in obesity in the U.S over the past 20 years. The map shows the increase state by state from 1985 to 2006, and makes a strong impression through the use of color coding the percentages. The 1985 map shows a handful of states with 10-14% of their population overweight, then finishes with 2006 showing the majority of the U.S. saturated in red, indicating states with an obesity rate greater than 25%.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/fit.nation/obesity.map/

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By Posted on Posted in Climate Change, Fun Stuff to Make

I love getting email from Al Gore (sent through his blog’s mailing list, not sent to me personally), but today’s message was especially interesting (with my red/bold highlights):

“Dear Carol,Current, the media company I co-founded six years ago with my partner Joel Hyatt, just last week launched a new web site that integrates television and the Web in an unprecedented way. It provides, as never before, a platform for citizens to make the media their own.Read more »

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“Continent-size” swath of trash in Pacific, via San Francisco Chronicle:

” In reality, the rogue bag would float into a sewer, follow the storm drain to the ocean, then make its way to the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that’s twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists.

The enormous stew of trash – which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers – floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man’s land between San Francisco and Hawaii.”

Full story

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