Links on 9/04/2013

All New Jobs Will Celebrate Labor Day By Laboring On Labor Day.

80% of All Adults in U.S. Face Near-Poverty or Unemployment.

Happy Labor Day, in eight charts!.

Two charts to ruin Labor Day: US labor is worth less than ever – Quartz.

'Groups of Women, Three or Four at a Time, Grabbed Each Other by Their Hands, and Plunged off the Building' | Motherboard.

After Assata Shakur, We Don't Know What a Terrorist Is Anymore | Motherboard.

Federal Reserve Bank San Francisco | What’s Behind the Increase in Part-Time Work?.

Links on 9/03/2013

Where Labor Day Comes from, and Where It's Headed | Alternet.

How Labor Day was hijacked: 5 reminders of the day’s real purpose – Salon.com.

The Internet’s next victim: Advertising – Salon.com.

No password is safe from new breed of cracking software – Salon.com.

Fast- food workers protests: Union images of the labor force don’t match reality. – Slate Magazine.

Labor Economics 101: Few Jobs Means Bad Jobs | Beat the Press.

Analysis: Caterpillar plan illustrates risk of variable pay plans | Reuters.

Morsels for the mind – 30/8/2013 › Six Incredible Things Before Breakfast.

Links on 9/02/2013

Fong Qi Wei: “Time Is a Dimension” are photographic collages that mark the passage of time (PHOTOS)..

Nearly 20 Percent Of Scientists Contemplate Moving Overseas Due In Part To Sequestration.

Paper Versus Pixel – Issue 4: The Unlikely – Nautilus.

The Amazing and Ridiculous Tech From a 30-Year-Old Sears Catalog | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.

The 8 Types of Americans Who Suffer the Most Economic Pain | Alternet.

Mather posters: Workplace incentive art from the 1920s.

Allegations In Merrill Lynch Racial Bias Suit – Business Insider.

The Long Battle For A Living Wage Goes On | New Economic Perspectives.

90 Percent Of Employers Tie Workers' Pay To Company Performance.

Links on 9/01/2013

Beware of Legal Threats Social Networks Pose | Russ Warner.

Russ Warner: Employment-Related Identity Theft Gets Harder.

Low-wage Workers Are Older Than You Think: 88 Percent of Workers Who Would Benefit From a Higher Minimum Wage Are Older Than 20, One Third Are Over 40 | Economic Policy Institute.

To some truckers, DOT rules to combat fatigue are tiresome | McClatchy.

Grand Canyon Development – Everyone Wants A Piece Of The Grand Canyon, But At What Cost – Esquire.

The Red Banker: MERITOCRACY REDUX: THIS IS NOT WHAT IT MEANS.

Links on 8/31/2013

When to go on the record with email at work | mathbabe.

On being ‘right’ in science | The Student Blog.

Human Resource Executive Online | A Mass Exodus of Millennials?.

Why Have There Been So Few Sexual Assault Prosecutions In the Agriculture Industry? | Rape in the Fields | FRONTLINE | PBS.

The first arrest filmed on Google Glass? | Technically Incorrect – CNET News.

….A Google Glass explorer happens to be on a New Jersey boardwalk when a fight breaks out. His footage shows how easy it is to film, well, anything surreptitiously with Google’s glasses….

Links on 8/30/2013

New evidence on anchoring effects.

New Study Finds That State Crime Labs Are Paid Per Conviction.

You Could Be Held Legally Liable For Texting A Driver Who Crashes.

What Whistle Blower and Former High Level Executive Michael Winston Knows About Bankers Crimes Will Horrify You | Alternet.

6 Ways That Workers Are Being Treated Like Machines | Alternet.

Human Resource Executive Online | A Different Kind of Discrimination.

Testosterone Pit – Home – LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA.

How Much Is Your Personal Data Worth? – Truthdig.

Links on 8/21/2013

Christie's appraisal will reveal value of Detroit Institute of Arts' collection | Detroit Free Press | freep.com.

Changing IP address to access public website ruled violation of US law | Ars Technica.

ObamaCare’s Relentless Creation of Second-Class Citizens (6) « naked capitalism.

(1) The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Runni… – The Altucher Confidential – Quora.

Giant Fatberg Found Under London Has Surprising Use.

Feds Slash Colorado River Release to Historic Lows.

Sugar.

BOLD – Internet Privacy – Module 4.

Groklaw – Forced Exposure ~pj.

Russia vs. U.S. Gas "Cold War" Underlying Edward Snowden Asylum Standoff | MyFDL.

IP Cloaking Violates Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Judge Rules | Threat Level | Wired.com.

Links on 8/20/2013

Among the NSA's Own Tips for Securing Computers: Remove the Webcam – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic.

How One Plus One Became Everything: A Puzzle of Life : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR.

Here’s what you find when you scan the entire Internet in an hour.

Teach People to Beat a Polygraph? Go to Jail..

Obama’s FBI Channels the Tea Party: Partner with the Banks and Blame the Poor for the Crisis | New Economic Perspectives.

Craigslist can use anti-hacking law to stop firm from scraping its data, court rules — Tech News and Analysis.

When big data goes bad in a totally predictable way | mathbabe.

Links on 8/19/2013

A Powerful Legal Tool, and Its Potential for Abuse – ProPublica.

Infographic: An Amazing Atlas of the World Wide Web | Wired Design | Wired.com.

Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don’t Understand : The New Yorker.

Sarah Stillman: The Use and Abuse of Civil Forfeiture : The New Yorker.

US Potential GDP Growth Lowest Since WW2 – Business Insider.

Adam Savage: How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries | The Big Picture.

So what about the rest of your workforce? | MyFDL.

Snowden leaks: the real take-home – Charlie’s Diary.

New approach assembles big structures from small interlocking pieces.

This “Hyperlapse Postcard” Makes You Want to Go to Georgia | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce.