{"id":12239,"date":"2012-11-26T04:52:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T11:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=12239"},"modified":"2012-11-26T04:52:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T11:52:48","slug":"monday-links-a-weird-psa-and-a-small-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/monday-links-a-weird-psa-and-a-small-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links, a weird PSA, and a small favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Wow. Promising news for dogs and humans alike. Experimental treatment helps paralyzed dogs walk again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-20365355\" target=\"_blank\">by injecting them with cells grown from their own noses<\/a>.\n<li>&#8216;Bout time judges <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2012\/10\/22\/judge-questions-tools-that-grab-cellphone-data-on-innocent-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">started questioning<\/a> some of this wholesale data scooping.\n<li>Another example of how government &#8220;help&#8221; stinks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/25\/us\/california-cove-blessed-with-natures-beauty-reels-from-its-stench.html\" target=\"_blank\">Literally, in this case<\/a>\n<li>Sigh. Despite Katrina. Despite Sandy. Despite everything. The preparedness message <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emergencymgmt.com\/disaster\/Preparedness-Message-Isnt-Reaching-Public.html\" target=\"_blank\">still isn&#8217;t reaching Joe Average<\/a>. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepriceofliberty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Price of Liberty<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Small favor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to you using those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon links<\/a>, I&#8217;m on the way to my best-ever Amazon month! And boy, is it welcome! Now, if you&#8217;re willing, you can help accomplish one small but gratifying goal. <\/p>\n<p>If Amazon fulfills orders for 320 items from my links before the end of the month, that&#8217;ll push me into the next tier of commissions. I&#8217;ve never been remotely close before. This month, <i>you<\/i> have put us within spittin&#8217; distance. Another 53 items and &#8212; <i>voila!<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Tiny items: $.99 Kindle books. $1.99 instant videos &#8212; anything. Baubles, bangles, doo-dads, mathoms. It&#8217;s not about the cost; just <i>the number of things that get instantly delivered or shipped<\/i> before month&#8217;s end. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006IE7L\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00006IE7L&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">Ten boxes of cheap pens<\/a> for your office. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0037YOSCW\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0037YOSCW&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">Three Stooges (or Elvis) Million Dollar novelty bills with free shipping<\/a> to delight (or offend) everybody on your Christmas card list. Or you can do what I did one year and give <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;field-keywords=zimbabwe%20100%20trillion%20dollar&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Azimbabwe%20100%20trillion%20dollar&#038;sprefix=zimbabwe%20%2Caps%2C596&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;url=search-alias%3Daps\">genuine Zimbabwe $100 trillion bills<\/a> to people who &#8220;get it&#8221; (but look out for the shipping charges on some of those!). Possibilities are endless &#8212; as long as the items get reported as shipped this week and as long as they are for somebody other than me; my wish list items don&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>Making it to 320 isn&#8217;t a big money deal. Maybe an extra $30. But you&#8217;ll give me a big wow. So buy whatever you were going to buy, anyhow, using any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon links<\/a> on the blog. But if you can see your way to adding a few trinkets or instant-delivery items &#8230; kewl.<\/p>\n<p><b>Finally, here&#8217;s a bizarrely entertaining PSA for your Monday morning work avoidance:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IJNR2EpS0jw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Promising news for dogs and humans alike. Experimental treatment helps paralyzed dogs walk again by injecting them with cells grown from their own noses. &#8216;Bout time judges started questioning some of this wholesale data scooping. Another example of how government &#8220;help&#8221; stinks. Literally, in this case Sigh. Despite Katrina. Despite Sandy. Despite everything. The preparedness message still isn&#8217;t reaching Joe Average. (Via The Price of Liberty) Small favor Thanks to you using those Amazon links, I&#8217;m on the way to my best-ever Amazon month! And boy, is it welcome! Now, if you&#8217;re willing, you can help accomplish one small&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/monday-links-a-weird-psa-and-a-small-favor\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday links, a weird PSA, and a small favor<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,19,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}