A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team

How to get a good rating from your Uber driver >>> Daily Dot

While most drivers noted that truly bad experiences are few and far between, almost everything about being a good, responsible passenger can be boiled down to “don’t be an asshole.”

“Don’t be an asshole” is a fairly good rule.

Anti-surveillance camouflage for your face >>> The Atlantic

CV dazzle is ostentatious and kind of rad-looking, in a joyful, dystopic way. The first time I saw it, three years ago, I found it charismatic and captivating. Here was a technology that confounded computers with light and color. Since then, more and more people have learned about the technology. Harvey has contributed op-art about dazzle to The New York Times and enthusiasts have held facial dazzle parties. After documents from the Snowden tranche revealed the NSA had harvested an enormous database of faces from images on the web, CV dazzle seemed all the more urgent.

If nothing else, the pictures are worth a click.

Co-op readies hi-tech trolleys to improve customer service >>> Marketing Magazine

Selected Co-op stores are trialling the new scheme, which prompts shoppers at various points in-store to answer questions about the layout, the ranges and products on offer. More general questions will quiz consumers on issues such as sustainable food, youth unemployment and localism.

Do you want a survey with your chicken drumsticks?

Nvidia quadruples display resolution by stacking two cheap LCD panels on top of each other >>> ExtremeTech

Nvidia researchers have used a fantastically straightforward approach to quadruple the effective resolution and double the refresh rate of cheap, off-the-shelf LCD panels: Stacking them on top of each other.

Why didn’t we think about that? Sounds stupidly simple, but highly complex all at the same time.

Achievement Unlocked: Mars rover sets off-world driving record >>> SlashGear

NASA’s Opportunity Rover has set the human record for off-world driving distance this week. This record was previously held by the Soviet Union’s Lunokhod 2 rover, whose record was smashed as Opportunity kicked out 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving. Any opportunity to one-up our space-race comrades, that’s what we like!

Only 10 years into a 90 day mission...

Piracy police hijack ads on copyright-infringing websites >>> CNET

To avoid that, a firm called Project Sunblock checks the content of websites, and has now been recruited by PIPCU to target dodgy sites.

Project Sunblock, only in Britain.

Is Big Pharma testing your meds on homeless people? >>> Medium

If you’re looking for poor people who have been paid to test experimental drugs, Philadelphia is a good place to start.

Rather puts “OKCupid experiments on its users” into perspective.

The history of information >>> Kottke.org

This timeline of the history of information has some outstanding rabbit-holes: multiple entries on the history of magnetic card readers, Plimpton 322 (a cuneiform tablet called “the most famous original document of Babylonian mathematics”), and a whole series on crimes, forgeries, and hoaxes.

Get lost in this for half an hour.

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