{"id":15040,"date":"2013-09-17T01:21:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T08:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15040"},"modified":"2013-09-17T01:21:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T08:21:12","slug":"tuesday-links-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/17\/tuesday-links-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Good news. There&#8217;s a typeface designed to be hard for NSA computers to read. Bad news. <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2013\/09\/14\/a-font-to-discourage-nsa-snooping\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s pretty hard for humans<\/a> to read, too. More of an art\/protest project at this point (though created by a former NSA contractor). But just a taste of how smart people will ultimately defeat the Stasi.\n<li>Kent McManigal on avoiding being sucked into people&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjonline.com\/2013\/09\/12\/rejecting-peoples-negative-vortex\/\" target=\"_blank\">negative vortexes<\/a>.\n<li>You know those strange names parents are giving their kids, these days? Names like Naiphthan, Elyivya, and Nevaeh, and J&#8217;oshau? Well, we can all be glad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_vault\/2013\/09\/13\/puritan_names_lists_of_bizarre_religious_nomenclature_used_by_puritans.html\" target=\"_blank\">nobody&#8217;s getting stuck with <i>these<\/i> names<\/a> any more.\n<li>And speaking of names &#8230; as we may have suspected just by observing, our names <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/249589\/how-our-names-shape-our-identity\" target=\"_blank\">really do influence our sense of self and our behavior<\/a>. (Which is one more reason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/columns\/wolfe0202.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is one of my personal favorites among all the things I&#8217;ve ever written.)\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now for one very clever dog &#8212; who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fAKS7mQTw0k\" target=\"_blank\">plays fetch by himself<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fAKS7mQTw0k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news. There&#8217;s a typeface designed to be hard for NSA computers to read. Bad news. It&#8217;s pretty hard for humans to read, too. More of an art\/protest project at this point (though created by a former NSA contractor). But just a taste of how smart people will ultimately defeat the Stasi. Kent McManigal on avoiding being sucked into people&#8217;s negative vortexes. You know those strange names parents are giving their kids, these days? Names like Naiphthan, Elyivya, and Nevaeh, and J&#8217;oshau? Well, we can all be glad nobody&#8217;s getting stuck with these names any more. And speaking of names&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/17\/tuesday-links-22\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[8,18,19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","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\/15040","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=15040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}