{"id":34804,"date":"2018-01-25T01:24:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T09:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34804"},"modified":"2018-01-25T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T01:14:39","slug":"thursday-links-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/25\/thursday-links-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The NSA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171214073007\/https:\/\/www.nsa.gov\/about\/mission-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\">mission statement<\/a> as of last year. The NSA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsa.gov\/about\/mission-values\/\" target=\"_blank\">mission statement<\/a> today. Seems they&#8217;ve given up on &#8220;honesty&#8221; and turned &#8220;transparency&#8221; into pure authoritarianism. But then, did anybody believe them in the first place? (Via <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/01\/24\/nsa-core-values-honesty-deleted\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Intercept<\/a>)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/when-corruption-job-perk-0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;When Corruption is a Job Perk&#8221;<\/a> (cops and &#8220;get out of jail free&#8221; cards for their friends and relatives). But no worries! The cop union plans to cut corruption <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/2018\/01\/nyc-police-union-may-cut-back-courtesy-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\">by as much as 1\/3<\/a>. Maybe even 1\/2 for retired cops.\n<li>Commander Zero has interesting observations on a little-known <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=4740\" target=\"_blank\">experiment in starvation<\/a> &#8212; and also offers his readers a chance to get in on a heavily discounted bulk buy of those excellent Mountain House foods.\n<li>Wow. Nissan creates the &#8220;pawfect&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vHPqLWb6PLs\" target=\"_blank\">vehicle for dog owners<\/a> &#8212; with everything from a built-in dogwash (and dry) to boarding ramps, harness clips, and two-way video.\n<li>The science behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-science-of-why-swearing-physically-reduces-pain\/\" target=\"_blank\">how swearing reduces pain<\/a>.\n<li>Is the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-y-chromosome-is-disappearing-so-what-will-happen-to-men-90125\" target=\"_blank\">Y chromosome doomed<\/a>?\n<li>But Andrew Sullivan says <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/01\/sullivan-metoo-must-choose-between-reality-and-ideology.html\" target\"_blank\">testosterone&#8217;s not going away<\/a> (even if modern life is diminishing it), and dogmatic feminists had better just accept that it&#8217;s what makes men men, complete with aggression and lust.\n<li>Ireland&#8217;s terrible Spike Island Prison (one of many shameful creations of the &#8220;civilized&#8221; British rulers, which housed and killed many people who were just trying to feed their families) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozy.com\/good-sht\/irelands-alcatraz-gives-tourists-a-chilling-thrill\/82338\" target=\"_blank\">a tourist attraction&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; and one of the top in Europe.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/526587\/amazing-rube-goldberg-machine-syncs-perfectly-tchaikovsky\" target=\"_blank\">Marbles, Magnets, and Music<\/a> &#8212; a Rube Goldberg machine.\n<li>Step-by-step facial reconstruction, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/61509-photos-avgi-reconstruction.html\" target=\"_blank\">beginning with a 9,000-year-old skull<\/a> of a teenage boy.\n<li>Speaking of faces &#8230; people are having fun  <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/4608005\/people-are-sharing-hilarious-results-from-googles-arts-and-culture-app\" target=\"_blank\">matching photos to paintings and sculptures<\/a> with Google&#8217;s Arts &#038; Culture app. (Damn shame it has to be Google because it&#8217;s so cool.) One guess as to which is my favorite match of the linked bunch.\n<li>Two fine true dog tales: Two dogs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/jackson\/index.ssf\/2018\/01\/dogs_save_elderly_woman_from_f.html\" target=\"_blank\">save an elderly woman from freezing<\/a> and one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/01\/23\/persistent-pit-bull-dog-saves-owners-from-carbon-monoxide-poisoning.html\" target=\"_blank\">persistant pit bull saves her family<\/a> from potential disaster. (H\/T ML)\n<li>Classic art <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2018\/01\/classic-meets-modern\/\" target=\"_blank\">meets the modern world<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>The NSA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171214073007\/https:\/\/www.nsa.gov\/about\/mission-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\">mission statement<\/a> as of last year. The NSA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsa.gov\/about\/mission-values\/\" target=\"_blank\">mission statement<\/a> today. Seems they&#8217;ve given up on &#8220;honesty&#8221; and turned &#8220;transparency&#8221; into pure authoritarianism. But then, did anybody believe them in the first place? (Via <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/01\/24\/nsa-core-values-honesty-deleted\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Intercept<\/a>)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/when-corruption-job-perk-0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;When Corruption is a Job Perk&#8221;<\/a> (cops and &#8220;get out of jail free&#8221; cards for their friends and relatives). But no worries! The cop union plans to cut corruption <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/2018\/01\/nyc-police-union-may-cut-back-courtesy-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\">by as much as 1\/3<\/a>. Maybe even 1\/2 for retired cops.\n<li>Commander Zero has interesting observations on a little-known <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=4740\" target=\"_blank\">experiment in starvation<\/a> &#8212; and also offers his readers a chance to get in on a heavily discounted bulk buy of those excellent Mountain House foods.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/25\/thursday-links-80\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[2,11,13,16,19,23,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-government","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\/34804","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=34804"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34838,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34804\/revisions\/34838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}