{"id":15769,"date":"2013-11-26T01:40:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T09:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15769"},"modified":"2013-11-26T01:40:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T09:40:02","slug":"tuesday-links-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/26\/tuesday-links-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The warm, fuzzy (literally!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/tsa-k-9-handlers-handing-out-trading-cards-of-working-dogs\/2013\/11\/21\/16e9aa96-4d82-11e3-be6b-d3d28122e6d4_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">face of the police state<\/a>. (H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Bovard<\/a>)\n<li>China finally going to <a href=\"http:\/\/dcclothesline.com\/2013\/11\/22\/china-announces-going-stop-stockpiling-u-s-dollars\/\" target=\"_blank\">stop stockpiling US dollars<\/a>?\n<li>You already know this, don&#8217;t you? Nevertheless, it never hurts to be reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/drugs\/4-magic-phrases-use-if-cops-stop-you-pot\" target=\"_blank\">the four magic statements<\/a> to make to the police when you&#8217;re stopped and they want to poke around and see what they might be able to pin on you.\n<li>Mostly for the nerds hereabouts: <a href=\"https:\/\/davidhaywoodyoung.com\/2013\/11\/21\/backups-a-psa-and-a-question\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rethinking cloud storage<\/a> (and in particular, rethinking SpiderOak).\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/news\/Security+privacy+Experts+connect+dots+debate+rages\/9205253\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Security and privacy: Experts connect the dots as debate rages.&#8221;<\/a> (Tip o&#8217; hat to MJR)\n<li>Via the Infamous Oregon Law Hobbit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2013\/11\/47719.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Skunk Party Manifesto<\/a>.\n<li>Solid scientific evidence for intelligent design! Erm, that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromquarkstoquasars.com\/the-surprising-habits-of-a-deadly-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\">design by fish<\/a>.\n<li>Finally, Chaser &#8212; the famous border collie who can identify more than 1,000 objects by name and understands simple sentences <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogster.com\/lifestyle\/chaser-border-collie-john-pilley-dog-training-language-1000-words\" target=\"_blank\">is now the subject of her very own book<\/a>. (Link is to an interview with Chaser&#8217;s owner\/trainer, who&#8217;s pretty exceptional himself. Windsurfing and biking at 85!) You can of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0544102576\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0544102576&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">get the book here<\/a>. Video below and at the interview link.\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/muKP278UdsQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The warm, fuzzy (literally!) face of the police state. (H\/T Jim Bovard) China finally going to stop stockpiling US dollars? You already know this, don&#8217;t you? Nevertheless, it never hurts to be reminded of the four magic statements to make to the police when you&#8217;re stopped and they want to poke around and see what they might be able to pin on you. Mostly for the nerds hereabouts: Rethinking cloud storage (and in particular, rethinking SpiderOak). &#8220;Security and privacy: Experts connect the dots as debate rages.&#8221; (Tip o&#8217; hat to MJR) Via the Infamous Oregon Law Hobbit: The Skunk Party&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/26\/tuesday-links-24\/\">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":[6,8,20,23,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/15769","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=15769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}