Another link dump. I promise I’ll try to include more bloggers and less news stuff in the future. Here’s How to Stop FB From Tracking You Online – Logging out isn’t enough. Can We Play? – Feeling guilty because you don’t get to spend enough time on education and they are aimlessly wasting the day? Don’t. Career Ruin: Homeschooling I realized that public school is like Social Security. There is Read More ...
These link dumps every few days make it nice for me to keep some fresh content coming, even when I don’t have a ton to say. Of course, if you follow @sadcox on Twitter, you get this stuff almost-real-time…for FREE! You Can’t Become a Man From The Sidelines – Join your local rugby club this season. Or learn to play an instrument. Or grow and kill your own food. Build Read More ...
Amazon has released even more movies and TV shows for Prime subscribers today, including the last 7 seasons of Sesame Street. Cool! We ditched cable about a year and a half ago and are exclusively streaming stuff from Netflix, Amazon, and Pandora through our Roku box. No regrets, and we haven’t looked back. There’s a ton of good children’s programming available that way, and the adults in the house only Read More ...
How to Use Gmail as Your Central, Universal Communications Hub – One of these days, one of these days…I'm going to implement these suggestions. At least the ones I haven't already implemented. End of the Culture Wars? – Really interesting take on the widening gap between the moderately educated and the highly educated. The numbers on divorce rates alone are pretty staggering. Toasted Coconut Cake with Coconut Filling and Coconut Read More ...
‘Stranger Danger’ and the Decline of Halloween – "We can kill off Halloween, or we can accept that it isn't dangerous and give it back to the kids. Then maybe we can start giving them back the rest of their childhoods, too." Amazing Beans: Black Lentils/Kidney/Garbanzo – Giving this a shot soon. YOU are Superman – Mamapedia™ Voices – “If eight park moms and one visionary principal could pull our Read More ...
Free Nature Work/Sleep Mix You Control – Awesome…sometime music is too distracting. Want to try an mp3 for running. Gmote Turns Your Android Phone Into a Remote Control for Your PC – TweetEffect- When did you lose or gain twitter followers? – FreshBooks – Online Invoicing, Time Tracking & Billing Software – Pretty cool for people who are one man shows. Hey, Michael Moore, I’m calling you out – Random Read More ...
The Breaking Point for Children in Sports: The middle ground between letting kids live a sedentary lifestyle and pushing them to the point of injury and psychological distress is pretty wide. I can see where parents at both extremes would point to the opposite extreme for justification, but it’s probably only justification.
With U.S. Opportunities Dim, Expats Return Home – That's a relief. Now we don't have to worry about them taking our jobs. Oh…wait a minute… 10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010 – And how do you plan to adjust your strategies? You’ve Got Mail, But the Mailman Hid It – In the near future, postmen caught hiding mail will be transferred to the U.S. Department of Medical Services Read More ...
I don’t keep up with baseball anymore, but Michael Silence brought my attention to an unassisted triple play over the weekend. When you’ve had an athletic career as long and decorated as mine (I’ll pause for you to finish laughing) that’s been so well documented (again, laughter) it’s sad to say the highlight, if it can be called that, occurred as a five year old in tee-ball. Yeah, I turned Read More ...
I have a few friends that are expecting babies soon. Well, their wives are…my friends just look like they are expecting babies soon. I was reminded of this really cool gift a friend gave me. This book basically gives you an idea about what goes on in the human brain as it develops and what to expect behavior-wise based on what’s going on physiologically. Oh wait…first let me tell you Read More ...
