Run a 5K & Links
IN THIS ISSUE:
Run a 5K
Links (IT, privacy, politics, science, how-to’s, fun)
RUN A 5K
I am looking for ways to add exercise to my life. I found a nice plan for working your way up to a 5K:
http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml
I would like to try this out, but I think it will work better if others join me in the process, not necessarily locally, just in general. I have signed up on PledgeBank.com stating that if 11 other people join me I will do it. Please consider signing up here: http://www.pledgebank.com/fivekrun
Use password: running - to enter the site.
PledgeBank http://www.pledgebank.com is an interesting site where you can promise to do something, but only if X other people will do so as well. It helps solve the collective action problem with things where the action of one may not make much of a difference, but the collective active of many might. (My 5K run pledge is NOT a good example of what the site is really for.;) Check it out for some interesting examples.
And consider signing up to train for a 5K with me.:-) You have to sign up by Mon Aug 1st for it to count toward the pledge. Thanks!
LINKS
My department (the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University) has up to two tenure-track (open rank!) positions for people with expertise in social network analysis and/or computer-mediated communication. See the full ad here:
http://www.webuse.org/news/2005/07/29/job-openings-at-northwestern/
My paper on survey measures of digital literacy is in the Fall issue of Social Science Computer Review
http://www.webuse.org/news/2005/07/20/the-importance-of-digital-literacy-measures/
CFP: Information Seeking in Context 2006
http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/isic2006/
Pew Memo on Internet Term Awareness - If you know what RSS and podcasting mean then you’re more knowledgable than the average user
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/161/report_display.asp
Related discussion:
http://crookedtimber.org/2005/07/21/peoples-web-savvy-or-lack-thereof/
Detailed Pew report on Teens and Technology
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/162/report_display.asp
Celebrating a decade of Web developments - links to some retrospectives
http://crookedtimber.org/2005/07/24/celebrating-a-decade/
How Much Does Google Know About You?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/07/18/google.privacy.ap/index.html
The serial number of your printer could be on all printouts
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/wp.php
What to do and what not to bother with if you’ve experienced ID theft - from someone who’s just gone through it
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/16/technology/16instincts.ready.html?ex=1279166400&en=24cd1773d1295659&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Online Private Eyes Draw Privacy Complaints
http://news.com.com/Online+private+eyes+draw+privacy+complaints/2100-1038_3-5790691.html?part=rss&tag=5790691&subj=news
Add an ICE (In-Case-of-Emergency) number to your cell phone
http://www.icecontact.com
Create Adobe PDFs from your browser using this free service
http://goffice.com/
Google Maps now allows Hybrid view. This means that you can have street names displayed on satellite images. Click on the Hybrid box in the upper right hand corner of the map for this view.
http://maps.google.com/
Example:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2240+campus+dr+evanston+il&spn=0.006704,0.014881&t=h&hl=en
(A propos Google Maps, note to advanced users of Firefox who like to customize their settings: Be careful about tweaking Tools>Options>Web Features>Enable JavaScript>Advanced. If you unclick “Change Images” Google Maps won’t work.)
Google Moon - be sure to zoom in all the way
http://moon.google.com/
Compare Internet phone services
http://slate.com/id/2121742/
Figure out the provider of a phone number (US)
http://www.telcodata.us/telcodata/telco
The F Word - “Feminism” today (also see quotes below under Today’s quote)
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/07/05/f_word/index.html
Christian Adoption Agency Nixes Catholics
http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8BBVON80.html
Engage - challenging anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
http://www.liberoblog.com/
Online support for teen who comes out as gay on personal Web site and is then sent to program by parents for getting his sexual orientation changed
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/fashion/sundaystyles/17ZACH.html?ex=1279252800&en=d6ba3ccdce395e4b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Echinacea Useless for Cold Symptoms
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/07/27/echinacea-050727.html
Water ice in crater at Martian north pole
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMGKA808BE_0.html
Recall the link in the last issue about how to fold a shirt?
http://www.howtofoldashirt.net
Reader Lorrie Cranor investigated further and found the following resource that’s much easier to follow (also has commentary from experts):
http://www.readymademag.com/feature_14_foldem.php
Thanks, Lorrie! http://lorrie.cranor.org/
How to make a children’s book
http://degroof.home.mindspring.com/boardbook/boardbook.html
Infinite images (not really, but seems like it, pretty neat)
http://zoomquilt.nikkki.net/
Similar idea with photos (people staring at screens of people staring at screens of people staring.. you get the picture, now go take a look at it)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/infinite/pool/show/
Recent photos I’ve posted on Flickr (Budapest, Evanston)
http://flickr.com/photos/eszter/
(Please let me know if you have a Flickr account, I am interested in seeing photos of people with whom I have some connection.)
Rubik’s Cube solver
http://wrongway.org/cube/solve.html
Baby names resource on the origin, meaning, and history of first names.
http://www.thinkbabynames.com
The Yammys - Yahoo! Video Search Awards - submit your video
http://www.theyammys.com/
Thanks, Chris! http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/chunter/
Create your own flip book - FUN!:-)
http://www.fabrica.it/flipbook/
Acronym/Word of the day: RSS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29
There is an important note about last issue’s quote below.
Today’s quote:
“Valenti acknowledged that many young women are afraid of the word. ‘Part of me gets so angry at younger women who are nervous about feminism because they’re afraid that boys won’t like them,’ said Valenti. One of the reasons she started Feministing is because she
wanted to meet young women and tell them, ‘I’m a feminist. And despite what you may think, feminism is pretty fucking cool.’ In addition, Valenti added, ‘Part of me wants to say, “Yeah, someone’s going to call you a lesbian. Someone’s going to say you’re a fat, ugly dyke.” Suck it up.’ — from Rebecca Traister’s The F Word in Salon, July 5, 2005
Maybe one day (I’m not holding my breath) people won’t be freaked out anymore by someone considering them gay or lesbian when they are not.
Regarding last week’s featured quote (”I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” — Thomas John Watson, Sr., 1943),
Shane Greenstein wrote to point out that it’s unlikely it is correctly attributed. I apologize for the mistake. Shane says: “Kevin Maney, recent author of a biography of Thomas Watson Sr., was unable to find any direct verification of that quote by Sr. Moreover, even if Sr. said it, he
certainly did not believe it for long, since Maney convincingly shows that Sr. deliberately invested in computing way way way past the point that would have been justified by the belief that there was room for only five computers.”
Thanks, Shane!
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/greenstein/
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