I break my own rules here. I say only use as many as you need and not a single one more. Inactive plugins should be deleted as the have an impact on your site even though they are inactive. Have any good ones that I missed?
Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Good question and good answer!
The current level of general surveillance in society is incompatible with human rights. To recover our freedom and restore democracy, we must reduce surveillance to the point where it is possible for whistleblowers of all kinds to talk with journalists without being spotted. To do this reliably, we must reduce the surveillance capacity of the systems we use.
Using free/libre software, as I’ve advocated for 30 years, is the first step in taking control of our digital lives. We can’t trust non-free software; the NSA uses and even creates security weaknesses in non-free software so as to invade our own computers and routers. Free software gives us control of our own computers, but that won’t protect our privacy once we set foot on the internet.
via Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? | Wired Opinion | Wired.com.
Poor Monday
The folks at Escape Adulthood write:
Monday wishes he was Wednesday. He has giant posters of Saturday on his bedroom wall. Everybody turns the other way when they see Monday walking down the hall.
Poor Monday.
I used to suffer from a condition known as Sunday Night Dread, that sinking feeling you get when the freedom of the weekend is gasping its last breath. I used to think Monday was the worst.
And then I realized that Monday is just a patsy.
It’s convenient to throw Monday under the bus when we’re unhappy about how our story is going. I propose that we quit picking on Monday and try a different tack. Here are a few options: Click here!.
I Deserve Better Than This
#true
Sunday Morning: Jack
Kind of a modern day Thoreau, eh?
“Meet Jack English, a 93-year-old legend who lives in a cabin isolated deep in the Ventana Wilderness, located in the Santa Lucia Mountains along the Central Coast of California. While on a hunting trip he learned that an old homestead in the Ventana Wilderness was being put up for auction by the estate of a childless heiress. He put a bid on the property and won. On the land he built a small cabin using materials from the land and milling trees by hand. When his wife passed away, Jack effectively left “society” and moved to the cabin full time.”
More on Jack English @ The Santa Barbara Independent: Jack
Good Sunday Morning
The view from my window…
… right now!
The air gold and so clean it quivers
What Leif Enger is trying to communicate resonates with me, but to me, it’s the October Blue that really makes fall pop; http://toddlohenry.com/2013/10/13/october-blue-is-my-favorite-color/
“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.”
~ Leif Enger, Peace Like a River
“In 2002, Peace Like a River was a National Bestseller and hailed as one of the year’s top five novels by Time, and selected as one of the best books of the year by nearly all major newspapers.” If you haven’t read this wonderful book, it is worth your time. Find it here.
Credits: Thank you Dan @ Your Eyes Blaze Out for the quote. Photograph: micspics444 @ flicker.
‘October Blue’ is my favorite color…
Is it only me or does the sky just seem bluer in the fall in the northern hemisphere? None of my googling has rendered an explanation although I have found a few clues like this one “If I recall my Astronomy classes correctly, Earth’s angle from the Sun (approaching the autumnal equinox) causes light waves to travel through more atmosphere, causing more scattering of the light spectrum toward the bluer end.” Excuse my ignorance, but then wouldn’t that make Spring’s blue skies look the same as Fall’s?
Whatever the reason, October Blue is my favorite color…
The brain as a ‘reducing valve’…
I try to listen to one mediation from @tarabrach every day; in this mediation below, she talks about the concept of the brain as a ‘reducing valve’:
That is an interesting concept to me and I was able to read more about it here if you are interested in knowing more about to what she was referring:
Reflecting on my experience, I find myself agreeing with the eminent Cambridge philosopher, Dr. C. D. Broad, \”that we should do well to consider much more seriously than we have hitherto been inclined to do the type of theory which Bergson put forward in connection with memory and sense perception. The suggestion is that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive. Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.\” Continue reading “The brain as a ‘reducing valve’…”
Looking back on this past week…
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Morning meditation via @notsalmon
I love Sunday mornings! If it’s true that the first hour is the rudder of the day, then Sunday morning is the rudder of the week. I cherish this time right now for the opportunity to find the good in the week that has passed and leave the rest behind while looking forward to more good things to come in the days ahead…
If you only use one tool to manage your social media…
…I’d make it HootSuite. Here’s part of the reason why; the HootSuite Hootlet…
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via Living Business http://business.toddlohenry.com/2013/10/08/use-one-tool-manage-social-media/
If you only use one tool to manage your social media…
…I’d make it HootSuite. Here’s part of the reason why; the HootSuite Hootlet…
Only in Green Bay?
…or do you have these kind of commercials on television where you live?
Bright, shiny objects! 
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