Secure Your Wireless Router: 8 Things You Can Do Right Now ☞ HowToGeek
“Protect yourself from router security issues by configuring your router securely. This includes disabling remote access, updating firmware regularly, changing default login credentials, and locking down Wi-Fi access.”
A New Online Archive Lets You Read the Whole Earth Catalog and Other Whole Earth Publications, Taking You from 1970 to 2002 ☞ Open Culture
“Behind the information, the advice, the hints, and the facts, this book is about coming to see things as they are, through your own eyes, instead of the hired eyes of some expert or other. It’s about training yourself to trust yourself, and trusting yourself to train yourself, until you‘re able to claim your right as a human to be competent with your hands.”
What to Do if You Choke on Food and Are Alone, According to First-Aider ☞ Newsweek
“You can achieve that by dropping the weight of your belly on the back of a chair, or desk edge. The only problem is: the hard edge hurts! So, you may have a reflex to not do it as hard as you should. Regardless, it is effective and is your best bet if you’re choking and alone.”
Child marriage in Mozambique ☞ UNICEF
“Mozambique has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, affecting almost one in every two girls, and has the second highest rate in the eastern and southern African sub-region. Some 48 per cent of women in Mozambique aged 20–24 were first married or in a union before the age of 18, and 14 per cent before the age of 15”
Canada – When librarians smelled vinegar, they knew the clock was ticking to save historic archives ☞ CBC News – Canada
“The destructive and contagious chemical decay is aptly called “vinegar syndrome” — and it means the clock is ticking for those trying to preserve history from this era in Toronto, across the country and around the world.”
Don’t Talk to the Police (2012) – Video
“Regent Law Professor James Duane gives viewers startling reasons why they should always exercise their 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials.”
Duration: 46:38
The Strange World of “Citational Justice” ☞ The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
“The latest fresh hell is citational justice. Which is quotas for footnotes. Now we’re supposed to track the group identity of the authors we cite and make sure there are lots of blacks, women, and People from the Global South among them.”
“I study insects – here’s how to check for bed bugs in your hotel room” ☞ New York Post
“But then, you take the bottom sheet, and lift it up as well. Make sure that you don’t see any spots. You’re not just looking for bed bugs, you also don’t want to see any brown spots. Those brown spots are what we called fecal spots, because when bed bugs take a blood meal, they digest blood and leave behind brown fecal spots resembling that of blood.”
May 26 – National Paper Airplane Day – ☞ Fold N Fly
We hope that you take advantage of National Paper Airplane day and get outdoors to enjoy some fresh air with a friend. Take your favorite paper airplane and have some fun!
Paper Airplane Designs – Database ☞ Fold N Fly
I’m a pest control expert and here’s my eight-point guide to eliminating ANTS from your home ☞ Daily Mail Online
“Pest control expert, Jonathan Nicholls at HomeHow.co.uk spoke to MailOnline…”