Casual Friday: Linkology, or Stuff I Found While Looking Around

It’s been several weeks since I’ve done a Linkology post, and my Google Reader is full of starred items. (At least you don’t have another story about me making stuff up to my son, right?) So, off we go. We’ll have fun. Right? RIGHT?

Get Privacyfix and find out how much data you’re giving to Facebook and Google. Sound boring? It’s not: Privacyfix also extrapolates your activity into how much Facebook and Google are making from your activity per year. As for me? Facebook makes a whopping 33 cents a year off my activity (based almost entirely on my ad-clicking behavior and privacy settings), whereas Google fares better, netting $162.94 per year.

If you are a Mac user running OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion, you need to get Brett Terpstra and David Sparks’ new book, 60 Mountain Lion Tips. Here I thought I knew my system inside out. Bzzt. Wrong.

The design of airline baggage tags. There’s a lot more to those tags that you automatically rip off and toss in the trash after every trip. Without them, your baggage would have almost no chance of meeting you at your destination. As always, there’s more to them than meets the eye.

The Hustler’s MBA. Down-to-earth, easily-applicable life wisdom for everyone. Literally, everyone. Makes a solid case that higher education isn’t worth its now-stratospheric price. If you read anything I’m linking to today, make it this.

Finally, a super-comprehensive online resource for the ridiculous manufactured business jargon we sometimes all find ourselves speaking and writing. There ought to be a swear jar in every conference room for this sort of thing. This website can serve as the list of offenses. Now excuse me while I table that idea and ramp up the rest of this blog post in real-time so I don’t get any red flags here on post length.

DNA’s half life: 521 years. So while Jurassic Park can never happen, DNA does last longer than originally thought.

Oh, oh, random thought: Squirtle would be a good name for a cat.

Working the room — the tangled history of presidents trying to be humorous.

MythBusters re-creates the final scene in Titanic to determine if Jack and Rose could have both lived. Answer: yes, if they got a bit creative with Rose’s life jacket. Which they didn’t Ahem James Cameron.

Finally, here’s your babies laughing at dogs video of the week. If you don’t laugh at this, yeah, you’re in a BAD MOOD. Seriously, ComfortCam is our pick for the best wifi baby monitor now, how would you be able to get these videos if it wasn’t for them?

Have a great weekend, everyone.

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