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Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising By Participating Companies (BETA)
Yet another place to set your browser to opt out of behavioral tracking cookies from 87 internet ad companies.
Network Advertising Initiative
If you don't want internet ad networks to track your movements around the web, you can opt-out here. (Must do this on each browser on each machine that you use to surf the web.)
Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts and Symbols
If your web browser renders characters as little squares instead of the symbols or letters you expect to see, you may need a TrueType font from this site, which has the massive Symbola and Unidings fonts and many others, available free of charge.
Cambridge Digital Library - University of Cambridge - Isaac Newton Collection
The college notebooks and other manuscripts of Sir Isaac Newton, free to read online. (More about the Newton collection here.)
Conferences Galore - Who, What, Where and When | Midnight Blue Says
A good round-up of blogger conferences focused on technology, politics, and "blogging while female."
James Fallows recounts his wife's experiences with a Gmail hijacker, the hazards of relying on "the cloud," the arduous process of restoring six years of messages deleted by the hacker, and some practical steps to protect your most sensitive accounts.
NASA's 100 Rules for Project Managers, by Jerry Madden, Associate Flight Projects Director with NASA.
Sage advice for anyone overseeing a large, technologically complex project with many different types of participants. (Via Common Flame.)
Enjoy Saturated Fats, They're Good for You! by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
Preferably from grass-fed animals, according to this cardiac surgeon. Interesting to see how the boom in carbohydrate intake correlates with the prevalence of obesity. (Via @DrEades on Twitter)
The Ultimate List of Blogging Platforms, Blog Software (100+!) | TentBlogger
First comment: "Dude... people still use Xanga?" Not only the names, but screenshots of the control panel for each one. (Next step: Categorize between self-hosted software like Movable Type and blog services like Typepad.)
"Every year, the services spend millions of dollars teaching our people how to think. We invest in everything from war colleges to noncommissioned officer schools. Our senior schools in particular expose our leaders to broad issues and historical insights in an attempt to expose the complex and interactive nature of many of the decisions they will make.
"Unfortunately, as soon as they graduate, our people return to a world driven by a tool that is the antithesis of thinking: PowerPoint. Make no mistake, PowerPoint is not a neutral tool -- it is actively hostile to thoughtful decision-making. It has fundamentally changed our culture by altering the expectations of who makes decisions, what decisions they make and how they make them....
"Rather than the intellectually demanding work of condensing a complex issue to two pages of clear text, the staff instead works to create 20 to 60 slides."
