{"id":12399,"date":"2012-12-06T02:40:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=12399"},"modified":"2012-12-06T02:40:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T09:40:09","slug":"thursday-links-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/thursday-links-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t know how long this will last, but the Kindle edition of Jackie Clay-Atkinson&#8217;s <i>Ask Jackie: Canning Basics<\/i> book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00ADG8RRY\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">is free right now on Amazon<\/a>. Can be downloaded to any Kindle device, including free Kindle readers for the PC. (Thanks to B for the tip!) (Ooops. Sorry. Apparently the free offer ended just hours after I set up these links.)\n<li>Speaking of books, anybody read <i>Two Cheers for Anarchism<\/i>? If so, what did you think of it? Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/12\/04\/practical-anarchy\" target=\"_blank\">a review<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0691155291\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0691155291&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">an Amazon link<\/a>. It&#8217;s by the James C. Scott, same guy who wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0300169175\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0300169175&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Art of Not Being Governed<\/i><\/a> (which documents how near-anarchism actually works in some parts of Asia) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0300078153\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0300078153&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Seeing Like a State<\/i><\/a> (which documents why so much authoritarian do-gooding <i>doesn&#8217;t<\/i> work).\n<li>I knew the FCPA &#8220;Africa sting&#8221; case had blown up in the FBI&#8217;s face earlier this year. But I didn&#8217;t know that piece of human pond scum, Richard Bistrong, the snitch-provocateur who masterminded the arrests of 22 innocent people in the firearms (and related) business, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/03\/show-show-sting-charges-dismissed-guilty-pleas-vacated-fbi-informant-sentenced-to-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\">had gotten a mere 18 months<\/a> in prison.\n<li>This is good. Lifehacker presents <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5965462\/the-best-replacements-for-privacy+invading-services\" target=\"_blank\">the best replacements for privacy-invading online services<\/a>.\n<li>Also good. M.D. Creekmore presents some <a href=\"http:\/\/lewrockwell.com\/creekmore\/creekmore17.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">privacy-enhancing hacks<\/a> for Firefox. Several require going into the scary looking config section. But they&#8217;re actually really easy to do.\n<li>Which leads to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/12\/feudal_sec.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Schneier&#8217;s observations on &#8220;feudal security.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>I know this isn&#8217;t a happy homemaker blog or anything. But damn, these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohbiteit.com\/2012\/11\/apple-pie-cookies.html\" target=\"_blank\">apple pie cookies<\/a> look delicious, cute, and absurdly elaborate to make. (H\/T to K for finding another apple tree project.)\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Several of today&#8217;s links arrived courtesy of the prolific J. Thanks, J.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t know how long this will last, but the Kindle edition of Jackie Clay-Atkinson&#8217;s Ask Jackie: Canning Basics book is free right now on Amazon. Can be downloaded to any Kindle device, including free Kindle readers for the PC. (Thanks to B for the tip!) (Ooops. Sorry. Apparently the free offer ended just hours after I set up these links.) Speaking of books, anybody read Two Cheers for Anarchism? If so, what did you think of it? Here&#8217;s a review. And an Amazon link. It&#8217;s by the James C. Scott, same guy who wrote The Art of Not Being Governed&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/thursday-links-11\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday links<\/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":[4,6,10,12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-gardening-heaven-forbid","category-guns-and-gun-rights","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\/12399","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=12399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}