{"id":21047,"date":"2015-05-14T01:29:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T08:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21047"},"modified":"2015-05-14T01:29:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T08:29:47","slug":"thursday-links-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/14\/thursday-links-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Find a hidden treasure at auction. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2015\/05\/12\/texas-man-makes-historical-find-in-the-secret-drawer-of-a-dresser-he-bought-for-less-than-100\/\" target=\"_blank\">Give it back.<\/a> You&#8217;re a better man than I.\n<li>It&#8217;s a bad idea, but a provocative thought experiment. &#8220;What if, just for a change of pace, it was the opponents of free speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2015\/05\/13\/for_folks_who_just_love_suppressing_free_speech_126569.html\" target=\"_blank\">whose ideas were deemed hateful<\/a>?&#8221;\n<li>Though the lede is about investing in the new cannabis industry, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/business\/currency\/delusional-confidence-a-report-from-the-marijuana-investor-summit\" target=\"_blank\">most fascinatingly weird part<\/a> is about the work being done in laboratories to isolate (then market) product with specific properties.\n<li>So we know birds came from dinosaurs. Now scientists have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/earth\/story\/20150512-bird-grows-face-of-dinosaur\" target=\"_blank\">taken chicken embryos part of the way back<\/a>. Honest, I thought it was <i>The Onion<\/i> at first and not the BBC. And no, that &#8220;photo&#8221; of a sharp-toothed chicken at the top isn&#8217;t real; the scientists aren&#8217;t hatching any of their embryos at present.\n<li>It&#8217;s a $9 chip. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1598272670\/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer\/description\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s a computer, complete with browser and apps.<\/a> (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Worker fired for <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2015\/05\/worker-fired-for-disabling-gps-app-that-tracked-her-24-hours-a-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">disabling an app<\/a> that let her boss track employees 24 hours a day. The creepitude just gets creepier all the time. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/jerrythegeek.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry the Geek<\/a>.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find a hidden treasure at auction. Give it back. You&#8217;re a better man than I. It&#8217;s a bad idea, but a provocative thought experiment. &#8220;What if, just for a change of pace, it was the opponents of free speech whose ideas were deemed hateful?&#8221; Though the lede is about investing in the new cannabis industry, the most fascinatingly weird part is about the work being done in laboratories to isolate (then market) product with specific properties. So we know birds came from dinosaurs. Now scientists have taken chicken embryos part of the way back. Honest, I thought it was The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/14\/thursday-links-35\/\">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":[5,6,9,19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-computers-and-technology","category-free-speech","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\/21047","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=21047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}