{"id":34630,"date":"2018-01-12T01:32:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T09:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34630"},"modified":"2018-01-11T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T04:10:09","slug":"friday-links-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/friday-links-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;ve heard of the Great Wall of China and Trump&#8217;s border wall. But how &#8217;bout the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/colonial-india-british-hedge-salt-tax\" target=\"_blank\">Great Hedge of India<\/a>? The Brits created it in a futile (but persistent) attempt to halt salt smuggling.\n<li>Another city&#8217;s red-light camera program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/455317\/red-light-cameras-unfair-unsafe-unnecessary\" target=\"_blank\">bites the dust<\/a>.\n<li>There&#8217;s a new <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/01\/11\/3-reasons-truckings-new-driver-surveillance-rule-will-hurt-truckers\/\" target=\"_blank\">surveillance policy for truckers<\/a> that&#8217;s likely to hurt us all.\n<li>Yuch. Does this mean we have to <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/01\/11\/leave-ginuwine-alone-no-one-intimidated-dating-trans-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">allow ourselves to be kissed<\/a> by anyone at all who happens to want to kiss us? Harvey Weinstein might be glad to have such license, but I don&#8217;t think most of us want to be randomly slobbered on, thank you.\n<li>A conference on Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/miami-bitcoin-conference-stops-accepting-bitcoin-due-to-fees-and-congestion\/\" target=\"_blank\">stops accepting Bitcoin<\/a>. (Fees and network congestion are currently a problem.)\n<li>But Bitcoin&#8217;s value is <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/bitcoin-is-worth-far-more-than-its-price\/\" target=\"_blank\">more than its price<\/a>.\n<li>Armed federal agents (why are they always <em>armed<\/em>) <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/01\/10\/puerto-rico-electricity-prepa-hurricane-maria\/\" target=\"_blank\">raid a Puerto Rico warehouse<\/a> where The locaal power authority is hoarding electrical equipment.\n<li>What happens when you <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v47yq5-throwing-water-into-the-air-at-minus-34.html\" target=\"_blank\">throw hot water into the air<\/a> when it&#8217;s 30-below outside.\n<li>Get out your hankie, but also be prepared to heed her. Young woman dying of cancer <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/4498181\/young-woman-dying-of-cancer-writes-heartbreaking-open-letter-that-will-shake-you-to-your-core\" target=\"_blank\">pens some advice<\/a> for we the living.\n<li>Creative outlawry: Making <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2018\/01\/10\/funny-drivers-license-photo-prank-jono-zalay\/\" target=\"_blank\">that trip to the DMV<\/a> fun. (Wonder how successfully those changes of expression mess with facial recognition?)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>You&#8217;ve heard of the Great Wall of China and Trump&#8217;s border wall. But how &#8217;bout the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/colonial-india-british-hedge-salt-tax\" target=\"_blank\">Great Hedge of India<\/a>? The Brits created it in a futile (but persistent) attempt to halt salt smuggling.\n<li>Another city&#8217;s red-light camera program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/455317\/red-light-cameras-unfair-unsafe-unnecessary\" target=\"_blank\">bites the dust<\/a>.\n<li>There&#8217;s a new <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/01\/11\/3-reasons-truckings-new-driver-surveillance-rule-will-hurt-truckers\/\" target=\"_blank\">surveillance policy for truckers<\/a> that&#8217;s likely to hurt us all.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/friday-links-99\/\">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":[7,11,16,18,19,20,23,30,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-resistance","category-stupid-security","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34630","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=34630"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34644,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34630\/revisions\/34644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}