{"id":28678,"date":"2016-12-16T07:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28678"},"modified":"2016-12-16T07:39:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:39:32","slug":"friday-links-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/16\/friday-links-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/latestnews\/hell-no-barbie-a-campaign-spreading-awareness-about-hello-barbie-a-new-doll-with-big-brother-ish-capabilities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taking toys to a new level of creepy<\/a>. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoveringstatist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RecoveringStatist.com<\/a>)\n<li>Dear scientists: please <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/blog\/gene-editing-must-reckon-with-the-unforeseen\" target=\"_blank\">be careful when you edit those genes<\/a>. A &#8220;bad&#8221; gene may also be a great and necessary gene.\n<li>Kevin D. Williamson on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/443033\/progressive-ayn-rand-obsession-misguided\" target=\"_blank\">left&#8217;s silly obsession<\/a> with people they wrongly believe to be obsessed with Ayn Rand. (Note: Contains one of the most hilarious and true remarks ever made about &#8220;professional libertarians.&#8221;)\n<li>The fedgov finally <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-government-finally-has-a-realistic-estimate-of-killings-by-police\/\" target=\"_blank\">has an estimate<\/a> on how often police kill the rest of us. No surprise, it aligns with the (high) amateur estimates more than with earlier gov-guesses and evasions.\n<li>Quick guide on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/2016\/12\/15\/how-to-treat-hypothermia\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to treat hypothermia<\/a>.\n<li>Per California Joe in comments, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/editorials\/max-hernandez-introducing-thieves-emporium-part-1-a-new-wilderness\/\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s a novel<\/a> that might be worth checking out. Been around a couple years, but new to me. And here&#8217;s its <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hWd1rQ\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s its Amazon link<\/a>. Don&#8217;t miss the note from the author listing all the reasons you should NOT read his book.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engrish.com\/2016\/12\/can-it-cut-over-function-yes\/\" target=\"_blank\">The usage explain<\/a>. In prain Engrish.\n<li>The ugly Christmas sweater <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/1253381\/christmas-list-of-worlds-most-expensive-ugly-sweater-atinsane-30-thousand-dollars\" target=\"_blank\">has gone upscale<\/a>. Which brings no notable improvement.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/latestnews\/hell-no-barbie-a-campaign-spreading-awareness-about-hello-barbie-a-new-doll-with-big-brother-ish-capabilities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taking toys to a new level of creepy<\/a>. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoveringstatist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RecoveringStatist.com<\/a>)\n<li>Dear scientists: please <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/blog\/gene-editing-must-reckon-with-the-unforeseen\" target=\"_blank\">be careful when you edit those genes<\/a>. A &#8220;bad&#8221; gene may also be a great and necessary gene.\n<li>Kevin D. Williamson on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/443033\/progressive-ayn-rand-obsession-misguided\" target=\"_blank\">left&#8217;s silly obsession<\/a> with people they wrongly believe to be obsessed with Ayn Rand. (Note: Contains one of the most hilarious and true remarks ever made about &#8220;professional libertarians.&#8221;)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/16\/friday-links-73\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[4,13,16,19,23,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","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\/28678","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=28678"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28688,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28678\/revisions\/28688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}