About: mdaniel

I copy and paste logos for a living and between that and rearing three cute children, I get to read about things on the interwebs. I enjoy science, design, coding, art, photography, music, and keeping up with world events. The topics I cover may seem random but they make up the things that consume my daily thoughts.

Somebody’s Watching You!

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Recently, I had someone I had been chatting with online share personal information about myself that was apparently easy to obtain online with a ten-second search. Creepy much? That’s when I was introduced to websites that work as aggregators for compiling public information available to everyone online about you....

PROTECT IP / SOPA Explained

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PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks the Internet Vimeo video from Fight for the Future, a non-profit working to defend online freedom. Watch this short video to learn about the motivations behind the Senate version of the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In the Sentate, the bill is called PIPA (Protect...

Toddler Identification Methods

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Lately I’ve been thinking about how I could leave identification on my toddlers when we go to busy public places. Would this be a dog tag or something that attaches to their clothing or they wear around their neck? There are different means by which I could attach information...

Web log in yo face!

Some people find the things I talk about and research interesting so I thought I would make a collection of them here to share with everyone interested.