{"id":24427,"date":"2016-01-16T07:22:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24427"},"modified":"2016-01-16T07:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T15:22:58","slug":"weekend-links-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/16\/weekend-links-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Hugh Farnham gives another look at <a href=\"http:\/\/westernhero.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/total-gun-confiscation-impossible.html\" target=\"_blank\">why firearms confiscation is impossible<\/a>.\n<li>Yep. One more bit of evidence about exactly why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nbc-exec-says-watching-tv-linearly-is-the-way-god-intended-and-takes-shots-at-netflix-and-youtube-2016-1\" target=\"_blank\">conventional TV is doomed<\/a> even as we enjoy a golden age of &#8220;television-like&#8221; entertainment.\n<li>OTOH, it&#8217;s sad that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/14\/business\/media\/al-jazeera-america-to-shut-down-in-april.html\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera America is shutting down<\/a>. It really did some of the best news coverage around. Real coverage, not newstainment.\n<li>A kippah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/anti-semitism\/anti-semitism-kippah-europe-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">and Europe&#8217;s future<\/a>.\n<li>Okay, that&#8217;s it. The whole business of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2016\/01\/160115-yosemite-names-ahwahnee-hotel-wawona-curry-badger-pass\/\" target=\"_blank\">selling &#8220;naming rights&#8221;<\/a> and trademarking &#8220;public&#8221; property has gone way too far.\n<li>Here&#8217;s the latest thing for privacy mavens <a href=\"http:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/wih-internet-of-things-you-got-no.html\" target=\"_blank\">to be aware of<\/a>. You&#8217;re okay if you can avoid the Internet-of-things. Which, for now, you can.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Farnham gives another look at why firearms confiscation is impossible. Yep. One more bit of evidence about exactly why conventional TV is doomed even as we enjoy a golden age of &#8220;television-like&#8221; entertainment. OTOH, it&#8217;s sad that Al Jazeera America is shutting down. It really did some of the best news coverage around. Real coverage, not newstainment. A kippah and Europe&#8217;s future. Okay, that&#8217;s it. The whole business of selling &#8220;naming rights&#8221; and trademarking &#8220;public&#8221; property has gone way too far. Here&#8217;s the latest thing for privacy mavens to be aware of. You&#8217;re okay if you can avoid the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/16\/weekend-links-34\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[6,12,19,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24427","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=24427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}