{"id":28451,"date":"2016-12-03T12:27:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T19:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28451"},"modified":"2016-12-03T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T19:29:41","slug":"weekend-links-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/03\/weekend-links-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Uber is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3996690\/Uber-track-passengers-locations-dropped-app-closed.html\" target=\"_blank\">tracking customers<\/a> after they&#8217;ve closed its app. But not to worry; it&#8217;s for your own good. (Close app, turn off phone, remove battery &#8212; if your battery is still a removable one.) (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Can&#8217;t afford to rent your very own malicious botnet (per last links)? Well, there&#8217;s always this <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2016\/12\/usb-killer-fries-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\">$50 USB killer<\/a>. It&#8217;s not perfect; but for mere couch-cushion change, what do you expect?\n<li>It&#8217;s truly a human tragedy that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/01\/health\/hallucinogenic-mushrooms-psilocybin-cancer-anxiety-depression.html\" target=\"_blank\">this type of humane research<\/a> on psychoactive drugs has been curtailed for so many decades. Thanks, War on Drugs.\n<li>Hillary&#8217;s &#8220;corrupt establishment&#8221; is now <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/12\/02\/hillary-clintons-corrupt-establishment-is-now-advising-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald&#8217;s board of economic advisors<\/a>.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuvie.com\/frontier-plus-portable-woodburning-stove-can-be-installed-in-tents-teepees-or-small-cabins\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontier Plus stove<\/a> for tents and small cabins (H\/T MJ). And various <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gSMoHf\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon variations<\/a> on that theme, some of them much more budget-minded.\n<li>Joel-the-Hermit&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\/ever-since-the-first-time-i-found-myself-broke-and-hungry\/\" target=\"_blank\">lifesaving coin jar<\/a>. Even if you don&#8217;t need spare coins to save your life, they still accumulate amazingly quickly and come in amazingly handy.\n<li>Per Shel in comments, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/thesmokinggun.com\/buster\/jailbird\/oregon-jailbirds-903821\" target=\"_blank\">jailbird with a jail bird<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/1211397\/twitter-cant-get-enough-of-this-angry-dog-that-was-found-wearing-pants-and-a-sweater\" target=\"_blank\">Mad dog alert!<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Uber is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3996690\/Uber-track-passengers-locations-dropped-app-closed.html\" target=\"_blank\">tracking customers<\/a> after they&#8217;ve closed its app. But not to worry; it&#8217;s for your own good. (Close app, turn off phone, remove battery &#8212; if your battery is still a removable one.) (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Can&#8217;t afford to rent your very own malicious botnet (per last links)? Well, there&#8217;s always this <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2016\/12\/usb-killer-fries-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\">$50 USB killer<\/a>. It&#8217;s not perfect; but for mere couch-cushion change, what do you expect?\n<li>It&#8217;s truly a human tragedy that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/01\/health\/hallucinogenic-mushrooms-psilocybin-cancer-anxiety-depression.html\" target=\"_blank\">this type of humane research<\/a> on psychoactive drugs has been curtailed for so many decades. Thanks, War on Drugs.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/03\/weekend-links-53\/\">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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,13,16,18,19,20,22,25,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-off-grid","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28451","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=28451"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28462,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28451\/revisions\/28462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}