These days, you can’t watch a YouTube video without seeing an ad read for a people search removal service. If you want to do the removals yourself, Yael Grauer maintains the Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List and a chart showing which removal services cover which sites. In 2024, Consumer Reports and Tall Poppy evaluated …
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Changing the way people walk
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Don’t mess with old people
A couple years ago I came across stories of a 72-year-old ex-boxer and an 84-year-old beating the crap out would-be robbers. The trend continues. In February, 70-year-old Ellen Basinski beat up some robbers with a saucepan: The feisty Basinski was on the phone with her husband, a local judge, when the would-be robbers entered the …
Press
Elections and voting October 28, 2020 Fast Company Yes, the lines are long. But voting is actually easier than ever October 19, 2020 The New York Times Election Tech That’s Super Simple January 29, 2014 TechPresident For Presidential Election Commission, Long Lines at Polls Are a Technology and Data Problem June 12, 2012 Twilio TurboVote …
Ain’t no party like a no-party party
Sometimes indepenence isn’t enough. Want to make sure folks know you’re not a member of a political party? Here are 74 ways people have done this: Do not wish to specify dont have one Dont have one. dont know dont no DONT NO YET Dont want to say I am not affiliated with a party …
Declaring independence … from the dictionary
Be careful when you give people a freeform text field. They’ll get creative. Here are 28 — yes, 28 — ways people spelled “independent”: endapendent IDEPENDENT Ind. Indenpent indepant Indepdendent Indepedent indepenant Independance Independanr Independence Independent independiant independient independnt Indepenent indepent Indepentant indepented Indepentent Indepependent Indipendant indipendent indopenit indpendant Indpendent Indpndt undependent
Making Flickr badges work with https
Following Eric’s instructions, I switched paulschreiber.com to https. I then had to get rid of the pesky mixed-content warnings. Most were pretty straightforward — I had a few JavaScript files and images that used absolute URLs and HTTP; I switched them to use HTTPS. However, my flickr badge presented a problem. (It’s bothering some other …
Doing creative work
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, …
Kathleen Wynne on women and opportunity
This morning, Kathleen Wynne, Ontario’s premier-designate spoke at a news conference. Her remarks on women jumped out at me: I don’t know if any of you remember, or have seen my maiden speech, where I talked about coming to the legislature, I felt that I had a responsibility to represent all of my constituents, but …