December 7, 2021 | beSpacific

TSA Guide – How not to be “That Guy” at the airport checkpoint

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Dec 7, 2021

This is a short written guide accompanied by gifs – the one that got me was: 5. If you must travel with it, know how to safely pack your gun!

See also LifeHacker for additional information – How to Avoid Getting Flagged By the TSA – Having never traveled with coffee beans I found this advice…interesting…”Although there are no rules against packing coffee powder or beans in your luggage, you may want to avoid doing so, as this can get you flagged by security due to coffee being used to cover up the smell of other illicit substances…”

8 of the Worst YouTube Annoyances, and How to Fix Them

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Dec 7, 2021

LifeHacker: “Although you might not immediately think of it as such, YouTube is probably the smartest, most personal source of entertainment that we have. Plus, it’s free. And just like a streaming service, it’s easy to lose a couple of hours in the YouTube app or the website. When you spend so much time using… Continue Reading

This distraction-free editor is the best writing tool you aren’t using

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Dec 7, 2021

Fast Company – “When I started working on this story, my laptop screen consisted of nothing but empty white space—a blank canvas on which to tune out distractions and write. That’s what you get when you write in Typora, a distraction-free text editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux. With Typora, there are no ugly toolbars,… Continue Reading

US Climate Resilience Map: Pathways for City Solutions

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Dec 7, 2021

“The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center (Arsht-Rock) today launched the US Climate Resilience Map: A Pathway for City Solutions. This new, publicly available online tool is the first-of-its-kind to map both climate risk and social vulnerability across the United States, arming city leaders and community members with census tract-level understanding and visualization of local… Continue Reading

Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2021 – Chapters 1 and 2

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Dec 7, 2021

Menell, Peter S. and Lemley, Mark A. and Merges, Robert P. and Balganesh, Shyamkrishna, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2021 – Chapters 1 and 2 (July 11, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3884159 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3884159 “Rapid advances in digital and life sciences technology continue to spur the evolution of intellectual property law. As professors… Continue Reading

Bruce Mehlman’s Top 2022 Risks Deck

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Dec 7, 2021

Bruce Mehlman of Mehlman Castagnetti – his 29 slide deck is titled Living in Limbo – Anticipating the Top 2022 Risks in Politics & Policy “Uncertainty, volatility & disruption are the new normal. 2022 will neither be the best of times nor worst of times. COVID won’t magically go away nor kill us all. The… Continue Reading

The International ILL Toolkit a crowd-sourced tool for global resource sharing

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Dec 7, 2021

OCLC: “Join this webinar on 17 February 2022, Time 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America] to learn about the International ILL Toolkit, a freely available, crowd-sourced effort designed to promote and enable greater ease of global sharing among libraries. The International ILL Toolkit is a freely available, crowd-sourced effort, initiated by the OCLC SHARES resource sharing… Continue Reading

Top 25 News Photos of 2021

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Dec 7, 2021

The Atlantic – “As we approach the end of the year, here is a look back at some of the major news events and moments of 2021. The breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 set the stage for a contentious year in the United States, and COVID-19 variants and regional surges slowed worldwide… Continue Reading

4 RSS readers every Linux user should try

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Dec 7, 2021

TechRepublic: “Standards like RSS are maybe the most underrated and underutilized feature of the modern web. RSS feeds are plain text files that every website publishes at a fixed address, with an explicit link or the common RSS icon. Those feeds are continuously rewritten with headlines, excerpts and links to the full versions of all… Continue Reading

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