{"id":30101,"date":"2017-03-28T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=30101"},"modified":"2017-03-28T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:51:25","slug":"midweek-links-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/28\/midweek-links-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A civil rights lawsuit is in the works <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/03\/27\/lawsuit-seeks-transparency-as-searches-of-cellphones-and-laptops-skyrocket-at-borders\/\" target=\"_blank\">against warrantless searches of laptops and cellphones<\/a>. According to the article there were as many such searches last month as there were in all of 2015.\n<li>You might think it would be a waste of money for the National Park Service to <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/feds-spent-50000-studying-bigfoot\/\" target=\"_blank\">spend $150,000 on Bigfoot research<\/a>. But rest assured the money isn&#8217;t entirely wasted. It&#8217;s also covering research on sea monsters and mysterious lights.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2017\/03\/dishwasher-has-20-year-old-security-bug.html\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> demonstrates exactly how dumb &#8220;smart&#8221; appliances are. A brand-new dishwasher with a security bug that was the hottest new thing &#8230; 20 years ago.\n<li>Is Australia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-03-27\/is-australia-on-the-brink-of-becoming-cashless-society\/8377288\" target=\"_blank\">on its way to becoming a cashless society?<\/a> Not as violently as Modi&#8217;s India. But it&#8217;s on a familiar trajectory. (H\/T JC)\n<li>Gorsuch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/03\/28\/neil-gorsuch-opposes-the-kelo-decision-a-terrible-supreme-court-property-rights-ruling-that-trump-supports\/\" target=\"_blank\">opposes <em>Kelo<\/em><\/a>. Good man. Better than the man who nominated him. Trump luuuuuuuvs <em>Kelo<\/em>.\n<li>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/good-samaritan-fined-for-shoveling-elderly-neighbors-sidewalk\/\" target=\"_blank\">that&#8217;ll teach you<\/a> about doing a good deed for a neighbor &#8212; when a cop is watching.\n<li>So. Which is more &#8220;objectionable&#8221; and &#8220;crude,&#8221; Apple? U.S. drone strikes or <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/03\/28\/after-12-rejections-apple-accepts-app-that-tracks-u-s-drone-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\">an app that tracks reports about them<\/a>?\n<li>Per jc2k in comments: Shazam. That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article141194343.html\" target=\"_blank\">three bad guys<\/a> who&#8217;ll never get a chance to do it again. And an accomplice who&#8217;s in deeper yogurt than she ever imagined being.\n<li>Five bad ways and five good ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/fulfillment-any-age\/201703\/5-bad-ways-and-5-good-ways-end-relationship\" target=\"_blank\">end a relationship<\/a>. (Shooting is not recommended unless the &#8220;relationship&#8221; begins as it did in the previous link.)\n<li>The creator of the now-omnipresent Labradoodle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/canine-corner\/201404\/designer-dog-maker-regrets-his-creation\" target=\"_blank\">now regrets<\/a> creating a Frankenstein monster. Not the dog, necessarily. But the cynical, pretentious, and false industry around &#8220;designer dogs.&#8221; (H\/T S)\n<li>The New Guinea Highland Dog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rare-new-guinea-highland-dogs-found-2017-3\" target=\"_blank\">has been re-discovered<\/a> and caught on camera. Beautiful, they are, too.\n<li>And in your awwwwwww moment for today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2017\/03\/28\/hospital-full-time-comfort-dog\/99727894\/\" target=\"_blank\">children&#8217;s hospital &#8220;hires&#8221; a full-time comfort dog<\/a> and names her after the deceased patient who inspired the idea.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>A civil rights lawsuit is in the works <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/03\/27\/lawsuit-seeks-transparency-as-searches-of-cellphones-and-laptops-skyrocket-at-borders\/\" target=\"_blank\">against warrantless searches of laptops and cellphones<\/a>. According to the article there were as many such searches last month as there were in all of 2015.\n<li>You might think it would be a waste of money for the National Park Service to <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/feds-spent-50000-studying-bigfoot\/\" target=\"_blank\">spend $150,000 on Bigfoot research<\/a>. But rest assured the money isn&#8217;t entirely wasted. It&#8217;s also covering research on sea monsters and mysterious lights.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2017\/03\/dishwasher-has-20-year-old-security-bug.html\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> demonstrates exactly how dumb &#8220;smart&#8221; appliances are. A brand-new dishwasher with a security bug that was the hottest new thing &#8230; 20 years ago.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/28\/midweek-links-43\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[7,8,12,13,18,19,20,23,28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101","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=30101"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30117,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101\/revisions\/30117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}