{"id":32764,"date":"2017-09-11T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=32764"},"modified":"2017-09-11T08:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T15:06:24","slug":"monday-links-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/11\/monday-links-107\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little hurricane and Equifax post-op today, but with so much of the Gulf Coast and now Florida a gigantic mess, and with this being The Dreaded Anniversary once again &#8212; not to mention it being a Monday &#8212; let&#8217;s otherwise keep things on the lite side.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/09\/08\/hurricane-irma-florida-215586\" target=\"_blank\">A requiem for Florida<\/a>, the paradise that never should have been. (Interesting history despite the overwrought title.)\n<li>Tesla&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/teslas-hurricane-irma-update-taps-into-our-deepest-fear-1803081731\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;kind&#8221; but oh-so-creepy<\/a> gesture to its car owners in Irma&#8217;s path.\n<li>And in all this, <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/hurricane-harveys-impact-and-how-it-compares-to-other-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\">let us not forget Harvey<\/a>. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-storm-harvey-water\/houston-residents-confront-officials-over-decision-to-flood-neighborhoods-idUSKCN1BK0RJ\" target=\"_blank\">still terrible<\/a> in many parts of coastal east Texas.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/11\/entertainment\/kristen-bell-hurricane-irma\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kristen Bell<\/a> gains more hurricane cred.\n<li>Krebs on Security on some of the lesser-known aspects of <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2017\/09\/equifax-breach-response-turns-dumpster-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Equifax dumpster fire<\/a>. And via the great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy McElroy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2017\/09\/credit-agency-equifax-threatened-pay-bitcoin-else.html\" target=\"_blank\">alleged hackers demand ransom<\/a>. Alleged remains the operative word here; we can only hope the real hackers, whoever they may be, would ask so little to keep our data safer than Equifax kept it.\n<li>Soldier in Afghanistan commemorates 9\/11 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2017\/09\/soldier-avenges-911-giving-100-dollar-bills-corrupt-afghan-contractor\/\" target=\"_blank\">giving $100 bills to corrupt contractor<\/a>.\n<li>Sarah Hoyt&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2017\/09\/09\/farewell-friend-jerry-pournelle-1933-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">loving tribute<\/a> to her friend and colleague Jerry Pournelle. (Via DistOne in comments.) Glenn Harlan Reynolds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/09\/11\/science-fiction-writer-jerry-pournelle-offered-fact-based-hope-future-glenn-reynolds-column\/651515001\/\" target=\"_blank\">extolls the hope (and the facts)<\/a> Pournelle gave a 1970s kid.\n<li>Plenty of other things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.on-this-day.com\/onthisday\/thedays\/alldays\/sep11.htm\" target=\"_blank\">also happened on this day<\/a>, including William Wallace defeating a &#8220;mighty British army&#8221; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/scotland\/history\/articles\/battle_of_stirling_bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Battle of Stirling Bridge<\/a>.\n<li>Man and his dog: <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/3342597\/man-and-his-look-alike-dog-dress-in-matching-clothes\" target=\"_blank\">twins<\/a>. Yeah, this dog dress-up stuff can be grating. But damn, these two really do look alike. And <a href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeahdementia.com\/post\/164757227294\" target=\"_blank\">for you cat people<\/a> &#8230;\n<li>Six &#8220;paranormal&#8221; events whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_24995_6-magical-things-with-even-weirder-scientific-explanations.html\" target=\"_blank\">real causes<\/a> were even weirder.\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/explosm.net\/comics\/4720\/\" target=\"_blank\">and just for sheer sillies<\/a>  (and for you pun fans) &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s a delightful short video about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WjqiU5FgsYc\" target=\"_blank\">a boy and the dog he rejects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WjqiU5FgsYc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/09\/08\/hurricane-irma-florida-215586\" target=\"_blank\">A requiem for Florida<\/a>, the paradise that never should have been. (Interesting history despite the overwrought title.)\n<li>Tesla&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/teslas-hurricane-irma-update-taps-into-our-deepest-fear-1803081731\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;kind&#8221; but oh-so-creepy<\/a> gesture to its car owners in Irma&#8217;s path.\n<li>And in all this, <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/hurricane-harveys-impact-and-how-it-compares-to-other-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\">let us not forget Harvey<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/11\/monday-links-107\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[4,6,8,16,19,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32764","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=32764"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32785,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32764\/revisions\/32785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}