{"id":4621,"date":"2011-03-15T09:06:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T16:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2011-03-15T09:06:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T16:06:05","slug":"tuesday-miscellany-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/tuesday-miscellany-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In better earthquake news: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703363904576200571710073008.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">a pair of dogs survive the tsunami<\/a>. Not only survive, but show some smarts in doing so.\n<li>Pretty good article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/business\/article\/0,8599,2058114,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">datamining.<\/a> What it can and can&#8217;t do. The author mentions <a href=\"http:\/\/ghostery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghostery<\/a>, which I already have on Firefox. He calls it tracker-monitoring software, but it&#8217;s really much more than that. Depending on your settings, it also turns off most tracking. It slowed my browser down noticeably, but it&#8217;s worth it.\n<li>Man with Fourth Amendment written on his chest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/03\/4th-amendment-on-chest\/\" target=\"_blank\">sues the TSA.<\/a> You go, Aaron Tobey.\n<li>Is the NRA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/15\/us\/politics\/15guns.html?_r=1&#038;hp\" target=\"_blank\">finally developing some spine<\/a>? That&#8217;s an <i>NY Times<\/i> free subscription link. Seems the <i>Times<\/i> fails to recognize Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/azstarnet.com\/news\/opinion\/mailbag\/article_011e7118-8951-5206-a878-39bfbc9dc89d.html\" target=\"_blank\">slimy editorial<\/a> for the standard anti-gun trickery it is. &#8220;Common sense&#8221; gun control. Getting all &#8220;responsible&#8221; people to agree on the same agenda &#8212; as long as it&#8217;s the gun-grabber agenda. Needing laws to prevent the wrong people from getting guns (while totally ignoring the fact that such laws already exist.) Yep. Heard it all before.\n<li>Sigh. Does it seem to you that somebody <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/03\/13\/atlantis-found-lost-city-discovered_n_835088.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;discovers Atlantis&#8221;<\/a> every couple of weeks? If it&#8217;s not Atlantis, it&#8217;s Noah&#8217;s Ark, perched up on some mountain somewhere. And the next time somebody makes the same claim, all the newsies pretend not to notice it&#8217;s all been said before. Probably a good way to get media attention and funding, though.\n<li>Decent, thorough <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2011\/03\/11\/atlas-shrugged-is-a-the-movie\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> of <i>Atlas Shrugged, Part I<\/i>. Doherty&#8217;s description is pretty much what I&#8217;d imagine for the movie. But oh my, I&#8217;m beginning to feel increasingly left out. Nobody&#8217;s invited <i>me<\/i> to any special previews. <i>Sniff, snivel.<\/i>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In better earthquake news: a pair of dogs survive the tsunami. Not only survive, but show some smarts in doing so. Pretty good article on datamining. What it can and can&#8217;t do. The author mentions Ghostery, which I already have on Firefox. He calls it tracker-monitoring software, but it&#8217;s really much more than that. Depending on your settings, it also turns off most tracking. It slowed my browser down noticeably, but it&#8217;s worth it. Man with Fourth Amendment written on his chest sues the TSA. You go, Aaron Tobey. Is the NRA finally developing some spine? That&#8217;s an NY Times&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/tuesday-miscellany-10\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","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\/4621","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=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}