Facebook: Friends inadvertantly sharing your data with app providers.

How Facebook app creators can get your friends' to share your personal data with them, and how to prevent it:  Link.

Via Boing Boing.
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How to Land Your Kid in Therapy

Check out this article in The Atlantic.

Haven't finished reading it yet, but mentions a bunch of authors, studies and such I think you're familiar with. Might be of great interest.

Technology and Teen Brains

Via Boing Boing.

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Spokeo removal instructions

More info here.

Coupon Cabin

Possibly something to assist with the new frugality initiative:

Coupon Cabin

Apparently the Better Business Bureau approves.

An Honor to Be of Assistance

Apparently when the first letter "H" in a word is mute you use the article "an" before it. I guess it's about the sound of the word rather than the actual spelling.

So says this.

Presumably this rule applies to the phrase "An Hundred" as a holdover from back in the day when everyone in the world spoke with a cockney accent.

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Dunning-Kruger Effect

As described in The Anosognosic's Dilemma.

This sounds like something you've run into a bit over the years.


Via Boing Boing.

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Phil & Teds Sport Buggy Instructions

Advice from the Little Mermaid

Via Boing Boing.

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Glee club and copyright.

It's kind of funny but the stuff mentioned in this article is exactly what pops into my mind when Glee has those mashups:

Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club


Via Boing Boing.

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A: a cow.

This handy website can tell you where your milk comes from:

Where is my milk from?

Via Boing Boing.

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Housework = nookie

Or so says some study.


Via Boing Boing.

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The Benefits & Dangers of a Soy-heavy Diet

Given the edamame currently in our freezer I thought you might find this Boing Boing article of interest.

You should probably read the article for details but, long story short: The less processed the soybeans, the better they are for you.

Psychology in Predatory Lending

More about how credit card companies do what they do.

Article here.

Via Boing Boing.

Parenting Literature

Readings on Ambivalent Parenting
Thought you might find this of amusement.

If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay - parenting book full of things you don't need to worry about
And this to be of general interest and possibly reassurance.

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The Uglies - Free PDF

This was pointed out on Boing Boing. It's no longer available at the link they pointed out, but it can still be found here.

Thought that a searchable text version might come in handy at some point.

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Booklife

A guide to writing for a living, and/or a lifestyle.

Given one of your possible intended choices of profession this book might be of interest.