Tosh wrote songs with Bob Marley – and here are a couple of his performances Steppin’ Razor and 400 years
Small actions have significant impacts [Note]
You may have read from my link yesterday about the student who chronicled his experience of having the US’ National Security Agency’s recruiters at his college. The response? NSA took down the list of colleges that they were going to be recruiting at. Of course someone had already made a copy of the site & the scheduled events.
Wow. MT @cyphunk: In response 2 @Madi_Hatter #NSA recruiting intervention they took events list offline. Made a copy: http://t.co/nIzHVXYuo0
— M.T. (@Madi_Hatter) July 16, 2013
Sometimes a series of photos say a lot more than words can.
This guy decided having a lawn was pointless. A pictorial representation of the transformation. [via Reddit]
Some feline happiness. Or Not. [Article]
An enjoyable read by T Rob, about his wife, her hand & their cats. Or something like that.
We want privacy from the government but are an open book on social media [Article]
Lindsey Bever explains:
Although there’s an important distinction to be made between information we voluntarily sign away and private data that’s seemingly subject to unwarranted searches and collection, many of us are inconsistent in our release of personal data. We’re quick to hand over our privacy rights to corporations, but we get touchy when the government tampers with our information – even when we might be the ones allowing it.
Cancer vs A teen with an internet connection [Video]
At age 13, after losing a family friend to pancreatic cancer, Jack Andraka set out to discover why the available tests couldn’t detect the disease earlier and at a lower cost. Amazingly, he stumbled upon a way to do just that – he estimates his method is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper and over 400 times more sensitive than the tests available at the time. He tells his story in this TED talk.
Museum of Obsolete items [Link]
The Museum of Obsolete Items has a playlist of revolutionary items of their time that don’t exist (or aren’t used) anymore, like the quill
Dancing gone crazy [Video]
Plants & flowers from seed to bloom [Video]
Simply. Breath-taking. Nature.
Recruited by the NSA: A student writes about the experience [Article]
Madiha Tahrir’s interrogation of the NSA language recruiters at her college went viral last week. Another student who was in the room writes about the experience:
Madiha Tahir has opened our eyes to a new form of protest. It is far more difficult than traditional public demonstrations but it has the potential to be far more effective. Instead of drum circles, placards, and chants, it relies on facts, arguments, and eloquence. It doesn’t target the upper echelons of the government…Instead, it targets the low-level employees and middle managers, the people who are essential to the day-to-day operation of these agencies. Its goal is to remind these people that they have moral agency, that evil actions don’t occur simply because high officials order them, but rather require that people like them carry out orders that come down from on high. It aims to remind impressionable young people like the high school students in that audience that they don’t have to go to work for agencies like the NSA.