Manage Your Identity
© iStockphoto / Internet Society Every time we log onto the web we access (and add to) our own personal digital footprint that’s interconnected with plug-ins, links, and massive caches of personal data that follows us around. Learn About Your Digital Identity While none of us can control everything that’s known about us online, there are steps we can take to better understand our online identities and be empowered to share what we want, when we want. The Internet Society developed three interactive tutorials to help educate and inform anyone who would like to find out more. Each lasts about 5 minutes and will give a great foundation when it comes to making informed choices about our unique online identities. Watch The Tutorials Other language versions: Provide Us With Your Feedback Once you've completed all three tutorials, please take a few minutes to provide us with your thoughts. Identity Tutorial Feedback Survey Join the Internet Society The Internet Society is YOU. Follow us
6 Easy Tips for Living with 100 Items or Less
Every few months, it seems like I read another story about someone who has sold or donated nearly everything they own, reducing their total number of personal possessions to under 100 items. There are lots of reasons for a person to want to do this. Maybe you’re moving across the country (or to a different country), and you need to pack light. Perhaps you’re trying to reduce your carbon footprint. Whatever your motive, if you want to try living with 100 items or less, you’ll need to start thinking about what items you can’t live without. 1. Once you know what you have, categorize it. 2. A couch that converts into a bed is perfect for visiting guests. 3. For example, say you are a heavy tea drinker. 4. 5. Don’t be afraid of ditching something you might need in the future. 6. Obviously, your needs will vary depending on what line of work you are in.
Extreme Urban Gardening: Straw Bale Gardens
Here’s a very simple technique for gardening in tight spots and in places with no/terrible soil (from the arctic circle to the desert to an asphalt jungle). It’s also a great way to garden if you have limited mobility (in a wheel chair). What is Straw Bale Gardening? You simply plant your garden in straw bales. Here’s an example of what a straw bale garden looks like (via author/expert Joel Karsten — he’s got a good book on the topic and he teaches it in seminars) As you can see, the basic technique is actually quite simple. How to grow a Straw Bale Garden There are lots of techniques on how to grow a straw bale garden. Days 1 to 3: Water the bales thoroughly and keep them damp.Days 4 to 6: Sprinkle each bale with ½ cup urea (46-0-0) and water well into bales. Essentially, plant the seedlings like you would do in the ground. Remember, the bales (like most above ground gardening techniques) will need extra water and fertilizer during the early period. Plants Number Per Bale
How to build a simple seed-starting stand
Starting annual flowers and vegetables from seed indoors to get a jump start on spring sounds like a great idea until reality sets in. That’s the point when home gardeners begin to ask questions: Do I have room? Where will I put the trays so the seeds will get enough light? Shawn Bard, a master gardener in DeKalb County, Georgia, has the answer: build a simple seed starter stand. She purchased inexpensive and easy-to-assemble shelves from a box store and built a three-tiered stand. She attached rope lighting with twist ties to the shelves to provide heat under the plant trays and hung fluorescent lights with a braided nylon cord under the middle and top shelves to provide light for the seedlings. She held the light tubes in place by feeding the cord through holes on mounting clips on both sides of the tubes and across brackets on the sides of the shelves. The “whole thing cost me maybe $25,” Bard said. Related stories on MNN: Photos: Shawn Bard
Remix: Too Many Dicks in Video Games
March 23, 2010 This remix was inspired by Sloane’s “Star Trek Dance Floor” It is no secret that the majority of video games these days star overly muscular men often carrying big swords, guns, baseball bats, chainsaws or other phallic weaponry. Many games normalize this extremely macho form of masculinity while uncritically glorifying war or military intervention. Sadly too many games tend to celebrate grotesque displays of violence instead of providing opportunities for creative, less violent, innovative forms of conflict resolution. Today with the growing dominance of the first person shooter genre players are encouraged to really participate in the destruction, testosterone and gore up close and personal. Not only are these games dominated by male characters but even the few women characters who do get staring roles are often made to replicate overly patriarchal, violent, macho behavior (but inside of a hyper sexualized female body). List of Games Used Under the Cut Related posts:
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43 Ways to Start Making Money Right Now
I often hear people saying that they’d like to start making some extra money to complement their full time job, but they don’t know what to do. I know there are a lot of things one can do, especially with basic computer skills, so I sat down and wrote a list of activities I could do to make some money right now. Many of these tips will certainly not make you rich, while other have some great potential. The goal of this list is to inspire you to act and do something right now. Sell used stuff on ebay. Image courtesy
Emergency Documentation To Keep In 72 Hour Kit
March 15, 2014, by Ken Jorgustin In addition to the items you keep in your 72-hour kit, bug-out-bag, or any survival kit, do not discount the value of keeping a hard copy written list of information including important contacts, and even account numbers and passwords with simple encryption… (updated) Although your smart-phone or other electronic device may be a convenient place to store contact information and other data, it will become quite useless when the battery drains, or if it is dropped and broken, or if damaged by an EMP. Having a hard copy of written documentation of important and useful contact information and data could be crucial in a emergency evacuation or bug-out situation. For this purpose, it is not necessary to duplicate your entire contact list, but just those which might be particularly useful following an emergency or disaster. The thing is, since the age of cell phones, we no longer need to memorize everyone’s phone numbers.
