{"id":13480,"date":"2013-03-14T15:06:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T22:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13480"},"modified":"2013-03-14T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T22:06:50","slug":"nooz-and-a-good-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/14\/nooz-and-a-good-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Nooz and a good laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, it takes a lot more brainpower to write long, thoughtful, personal posts than it does to toss out a little news (maybe accompanied by a bit of snark or righteous indignation). So while I continue working on the &#8220;Perspective&#8221; Blog Tome, news (and one really good laugh) it is for today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asherwolf.net\/anonymous-has-left-the-building\/239\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Anonymous has left the building.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianwelsh.net\/the-logic-of-surveillance\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The logic of surveillance.&#8221;<\/a> (H\/T JG)\n<li>This isn&#8217;t exactly nooz. It&#8217;s from last month. But it makes me proud that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/anarchists-strike-back-against-seattle-s-expanded-surveillance-camera-network\" target=\"_blank\">the Northwest is a national center of anti-surveillance activism<\/a>. You go, monkeywrenchers!\n<li>This pertains to yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;Perspective&#8221; blog. Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project defines four types of personal energy and notes that contemplation (which includes decision-making and other inner-directed things) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/4-types-of-energy-levels-2013-3\" target=\"_blank\">requires the highest form<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-21754915\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;&#8216;Pirate Bay&#8217; for 3D printing launched.&#8221;<\/a> Not sure how this will affect Greylock&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2013\/01\/28\/good-people-on-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\">UDT-1A Project<\/a>. (Care to comment, Mark?) Sure seems like good news for the world, though. Now the big question is: How long before the fedgov finds a way to do a Bradley Manning or an Aaron Swartz on bold innovator Cody Wilson?\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now for the hilarity. This isn&#8217;t new, either. But if it doesn&#8217;t give you a belly laugh even after repeated viewings, check your pulse because you must be dead.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/I3E9U3GDrmI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I3E9U3GDrmI\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a> for those who can&#8217;t see the embed. Tip o&#8217; hat to L.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, it takes a lot more brainpower to write long, thoughtful, personal posts than it does to toss out a little news (maybe accompanied by a bit of snark or righteous indignation). So while I continue working on the &#8220;Perspective&#8221; Blog Tome, news (and one really good laugh) it is for today. &#8220;Anonymous has left the building.&#8221; &#8220;The logic of surveillance.&#8221; (H\/T JG) This isn&#8217;t exactly nooz. It&#8217;s from last month. But it makes me proud that the Northwest is a national center of anti-surveillance activism. You go, monkeywrenchers! This pertains to yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;Perspective&#8221; blog. Gretchen Rubin of The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/14\/nooz-and-a-good-laugh\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nooz and a good laugh<\/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":[4,12,13,16,18,21,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-monkeywrenching","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480","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=13480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}