http://www.esztersblog.com social commentary, gadgets, art, travel and whatever else comes to mind Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:30:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en American inequality highlighted by 30-year gap in life expectancy (The Independent) (tags: ToRead article inequality usa healthcare) http://www.esztersblog.com/2008/07/26/links-for-2008-07-26/ Tour de France - Live Tracker 2008 very cool visualization using Google Maps Street View (tags: googlemaps maps sports) Housing Maps mashup of Craig's List information and Google Maps (tags: googlemaps mashup) Free Documentaries full-length documentaries available for free (tags: video free movies) BBC - Science & Nature - Sex ID (tags: gender quiz) The Internet Literacy Handbook (tags: skill digital-literacy) http://www.esztersblog.com/2008/07/25/links-for-2008-07-25/ How to create a web form to talk with Google Docs (tags: howto googledocs spreadsheet forms) Dance Off with the Star Wars Stars so geeky, so fun (tags: video starwars) http://www.esztersblog.com/2008/07/21/links-for-2008-07-21/ The folks who brought you Frozen Grand Central now bring you Human Mirror. These ideas are great and they do a good job with them. Fun stuff! http://www.esztersblog.com/2008/07/20/interesting-subway-scene/ What Mainstream Publishers Don't Want You to Know About Door-to-Door Magazine Sales (Houston Press) That kid at your door with a magazine order form will tell you a story -- part sad, part hopeful. The truth will be infinitely worse than you can imagine. (tags: article scam sales marketing business fraud) http://www.esztersblog.com/2008/07/20/links-for-2008-07-20/ At Google Finance, Google’s profit miss not news (IR Web Report) (tags: news google gatekeeping) Unrepentant on Facebook? Expect jail time (AP) how prosecutors are using pictures from SNS such as Facebook and MySpace in court cases (tags: article crime facebook myspace sns law photos) http://www.esztersblog.com/2008/07/19/links-for-2008-07-19/ Huh? It's a play about “a group of outsourced Japanese Ninjas hired by China to infiltrate the American Psyche by taking on roles in the Media, Pop Culture, and Politics”. Go see it at the Zipper Factory Theater in NYC on Saturday, July 26th at 10:30pm. ... http://www.esztersblog.com/2008/07/18/happy-sunshine-kungfu-flower/ Adeona just in case your laptop gets stolen (tags: software security privacy) http://www.esztersblog.com/2008/07/18/links-for-2008-07-18/ GMail works with eBay and PayPal to fight against phishing messages unless a message is really from ebay.com or paypal.com, it shouldn't show up in GMail inboxes (or even spam folders) at all (tags: email phishing security gmail ebay paypal) XKCD-style political fundraising cartoon excellent, if I was eligible to donate, I'd give him ... http://www.esztersblog.com/2008/07/17/links-for-2008-07-17/ Songza music search engine (e.g. plays songs from YouTube) (tags: music search-engines) http://www.esztersblog.com/2008/07/16/links-for-2008-07-16/