{"id":3989,"date":"2011-01-31T03:08:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T10:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2011-01-31T03:08:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T10:08:59","slug":"monday-miscellany-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/31\/monday-miscellany-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>How Egypt <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2011\/01\/28\/how-egypt-switched-off-the-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\">switched off the &#8216;Net.<\/a> And how Egyptians &#8212; and hacktivists the world over &#8212; are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9207078\/Without_Internet_Egyptians_find_new_ways_to_get_online?taxonomyId=167&#038;pageNumber=1\" target=\"_blank\">routing around the damage<\/a>. (ADDED: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-egyptians-can-tweet-without-the-internet-2011-1\" target=\"_blank\">And here&#8217;s yet another way<\/a> &#8212; thanks to engineers at Google and Twitter.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2011\/jan\/27\/anonymous-internet\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Anonymous: A net gain for liberty.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Dmitry Orlov is interesting and the wording of the headline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/01\/exclusive-people-stop-expecting-washington-author-tells-raw\/\" target=\"_blank\">may be misleading<\/a>. But why should anyone have to have <i>faith<\/i> in any human institution? How about confidence, suspicion, contempt, etc. based on performance?\n<p><lI><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2011\/01\/26\/gold-dollar-bretton-woods-opinions-contributors-nathan-lewis.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What is a gold standard?&#8221;<\/a> Interesting to see the mainstream financial media finally beginning to address the question without immediately tossing out words like &#8220;fringe,&#8221; &#8220;impractical,&#8221; &#8220;right-wing,&#8221; etc.<\/p>\n<li>Hey, could this be your chance to get an <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2011\/01\/man-cuts-price-on-snake-infested-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">inexpensssssive home<\/a>?\n<li>Okay, the whole &#8220;private screeners&#8221; thing was only window-dressing, anyhow. But who knew that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/TRAVEL\/01\/29\/tsa.private\/?hpt=T2\" target=\"_blank\">TSA has the authority to decide whether anyone&#8217;s allowed to compete with it<\/a>? Or thinks it does. Only in government. No wonder more smart people are asking <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/artcarden\/2011\/01\/21\/do-we-need-a-department-of-homeland-security-or-a-tsa\/\" target=\"_blank\">this question<\/a>.\n<li>I don&#8217;t make a habit of linking to articles from Alex Jonesland, but if you were <a href=\"http:\/\/macedoniaonline.eu\/content\/view\/17479\/48\/\" target=\"_blank\">the guy in the truck<\/a>, would you be pleased to know that the the Glorious Fatherland was striving to protect the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/bill-would-protect-big-sis-citizen-spies-from-lawsuits.html\" target=\"_blank\">see-something, say-something hysterics<\/a> from <i>you<\/i>? The whole nation is going mad. But then, you knew that, didn&#8217;t you?\n<li>Ironclad? T&#8217;aint nothin&#8217; ironclad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/finally-a-privacy-breakthrough-for-facebook-2011-1\" target=\"_blank\">when it comes to privacy protection<;\/a> on Facebook.\n<li>Side note <b>and ANYBODY LOOKING FOR A GOOD DOG?<\/b>: This weekend, for the first time, I actually ran across something useful to do on Facebook &#8212; in this case, get in touch with a specialist in deaf dog rescue. First sign I&#8217;ve seen of Facebook having a purpose other than exchanging drivel and selling info on users. BTW, if anybody in the NW is interested in adopting a nice, young male pointer\/English setter mix who&#8217;ll soon be graduating well-trained from a prison-pet partnership program, let me know in the comment section. Deaf dogs can be marvelous pals and are easier than most people imagine. I&#8217;ve fostered several and found them a joy.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/27\/sports\/baseball\/27meche.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">Integrity.<\/a> (NY Times free subscription link.)\n<li>For women only: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturallyconcealed.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Naturally Concealed<\/a>. Cool idea. Biggest problem I can see is that, since it&#8217;s made like a bra, it will only last as long as a bra. Not long enough. Still &#8230; when so many holsters strive merely to overcome the disadvantages of the armed female body, it&#8217;s neat to see one that actually uses our &#8230; um, assets. (Tip o&#8217; hat to LD!)\n<li>You go, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20110126\/lf_afp\/boliviaunhealthlifestyledrugscoca_20110126200323\" target=\"_blank\">Bolivians<\/a>! Another sign that the American empire is slowly losing its influence.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Egypt switched off the &#8216;Net. And how Egyptians &#8212; and hacktivists the world over &#8212; are routing around the damage. (ADDED: And here&#8217;s yet another way &#8212; thanks to engineers at Google and Twitter.) &#8220;Anonymous: A net gain for liberty.&#8221; Dmitry Orlov is interesting and the wording of the headline may be misleading. But why should anyone have to have faith in any human institution? How about confidence, suspicion, contempt, etc. based on performance? &#8220;What is a gold standard?&#8221; Interesting to see the mainstream financial media finally beginning to address the question without immediately tossing out words like &#8220;fringe,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/31\/monday-miscellany-26\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday miscellany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,19,28,30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","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=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}