2011 / 12 / 23 | linklist

The Weekly — 2011 W51

This week’s list is brought to you by Influenza. I’ve been in bed most of the time since last Friday, watching reruns, too tired to read. But I have gathered some articles and links during that time. Here we go.

First, a couple of awesome web sites curated by my coworker Lucas:

Now, links curated by me:

  • What SOPA Means for a Non-US Citizen
    Drew Wilson, ZeroPaid

    Once the entertainment lobby, several over corporate entities and who knows what else starts ordering the takedown of numerous websites, the threat will become real for many non-US citizens. Non-US citizens will be able to fully appreciate the type of threat the legislation has whether they want to believe it or not.

  • What Google believes your interests are

    Below you can review the interests and inferred demographics that Google has associated with your cookie. You can remove or edit these at any time.

  • Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’
    Daniel J. Solove, The Chronicle

    One can usually think of something that even the most open person would want to hide. As a commenter to my blog post noted, “If you have nothing to hide, then that quite literally means you are willing to let me photograph you naked? And I get full rights to that photograph—so I can show it to your neighbors?”

  • Smoke Screening
    Charles C. Mann, Vanity Fair

    What the government should be doing is focusing on the terrorists when they are planning their plots. “That’s how the British caught the liquid bombers,” Schneier says. “They never got anywhere near the plane. That’s what you want—not catching them at the last minute as they try to board the flight.”

  • Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens
    Geoffrey Miller, Seed Magazine

    Basically, I think the aliens don’t blow themselves up; they just get addicted to computer games. They forget to send radio signals or colonize space because they’re too busy with runaway consumerism and virtual-reality narcissism.