{"id":15407,"date":"2013-10-22T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15407"},"modified":"2013-10-22T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:22:35","slug":"midweek-links-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/midweek-links-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;ve heard of Bridezilla. And the Wedding Guest from Hell. Now meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/man-jailed-for-calling-in-a-bomb-threat-after-he-forgot-to-book-his-wedding-venue-2013-10\" target=\"_blank\">The Mad Bomber Groom<\/a>. Guess you gotta give him points for creativity. Not brains. Definitely not brains. But creativity.\n<li>Experian, the worst and most pervasive of the big three credit bureaus <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2013\/10\/experian-sold-consumer-data-to-id-theft-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">sold data to an identity-theft &#8220;service&#8221;<\/a>.\n<li>Nooooo, really? And you say <i>both<\/i> parties are doing it?? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/10\/21\/Schweizer-Congressmen-Extorting-Donors-to-Fund-Golf-Outings-Personal-Limo-Services\" target=\"_blank\">Impossible! Quite impossible!<\/a>\n<li>Well, that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-24607870\" target=\"_blank\">one way to ensure that politicians actually get your message<\/a>.\n<li>Good idea. But I&#8217;d trust it a lot more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/10\/21\/4862724\/google-launches-new-anti-ddos-service-called-project-shield\" target=\"_blank\">if it didn&#8217;t come from Google<\/a>.\n<li>Death panels. Not a good thing. But yes, they&#8217;re real (Hellllooo, Canada!). And in the eyes of those who think we&#8217;re too stupid to make our own decisions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2013\/10\/canada_has_death_panels_and_that_s_a_good_thing.html\" target=\"_blank\">they <i>are<\/i> a good thing<\/a>. (Terms like slippery slope and camel&#8217;s nose come to mind here.)\n<li>Three <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2013\/10\/21\/three_illusions_that_will_destroy_your_brain.html\" target=\"_blank\">mind-boggling optical illusions<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Volkswagen: Woofwagen<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/I958KJ6kqBg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I958KJ6kqBg\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard of Bridezilla. And the Wedding Guest from Hell. Now meet The Mad Bomber Groom. Guess you gotta give him points for creativity. Not brains. Definitely not brains. But creativity. Experian, the worst and most pervasive of the big three credit bureaus sold data to an identity-theft &#8220;service&#8221;. Nooooo, really? And you say both parties are doing it?? Impossible! Quite impossible! Well, that&#8217;s one way to ensure that politicians actually get your message. Good idea. But I&#8217;d trust it a lot more if it didn&#8217;t come from Google. Death panels. Not a good thing. But yes, they&#8217;re real (Hellllooo,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/midweek-links-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[6,8,9,16,19,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","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\/15407","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=15407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}