{"id":7466,"date":"2011-10-06T01:12:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T08:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7466"},"modified":"2011-10-06T01:12:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T08:12:58","slug":"thursday-morning-data-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/06\/thursday-morning-data-dump\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday morning data dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;ve probably heard by now: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/06\/apple-jobs-idUSN1E79420Z20111006\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Jobs is dead.<\/a> Farewell to an amazing innovator. He&#8217;s been part of our cultural wallpaper for such a long time it&#8217;s hard to believe he was only 56.\n<li>Don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;d want to beta test a bank, but if you&#8217;re fed up with the Big Boys, here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/banksimple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting new alternative<\/a>.\n<li>Speaking of banks, the always-interesting Barry Ritholtz has a good take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/bankings-self-inflicted-wounds\/\" target=\"_blank\">their self-inflicted mark-to-make-believe wounds<\/a> and other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/bailout-nation-strange-connections-unintended-consequences\/\" target=\"_blank\">unintended consequences<\/a> of Brilliant Government Ideas.\n<li>Believe it or not Tim Burton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/duchess-ofalba-marriage-2011-10\" target=\"_blank\">did not create this wedding photo<\/a>. (I was going to post the pic here but didn&#8217;t want to disturb the digestion of any readers who might be eating breakfast.) This is what happens when you&#8217;re rich enough to have all the plastic surgery you want and old enough to have had one hell of a lot of it.\n<li>Hey, here&#8217;s an idea! Have yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/oddstuff\/5722741\/Gun-lovers-ashes-turned-into-ammunition\" target=\"_blank\">turned into ammunition<\/a>. Okay, maybe it&#8217;s not a <i>good<\/i> idea. But it&#8217;s an idea.\n<li>Here&#8217;s a better idea. A makeshift <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthineer.com\/content.php?blogid=2610\" target=\"_blank\">trash-can root cellar<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/04\/opinion\/bennett-men-in-trouble\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why Men Are in Trouble.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Downloading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/10\/03\/supreme-court-rejects-internet-music-download-case\/\" target=\"_blank\">is not the same as playing<\/a>. A court decision makes sense. Whoddathunkit?\n<li>Ten best (legitimate) ways <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneycrashers.com\/ways-make-money-from-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">make money from home<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard by now: Steve Jobs is dead. Farewell to an amazing innovator. He&#8217;s been part of our cultural wallpaper for such a long time it&#8217;s hard to believe he was only 56. Don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;d want to beta test a bank, but if you&#8217;re fed up with the Big Boys, here&#8217;s an interesting new alternative. Speaking of banks, the always-interesting Barry Ritholtz has a good take on their self-inflicted mark-to-make-believe wounds and other unintended consequences of Brilliant Government Ideas. Believe it or not Tim Burton did not create this wedding photo. (I was going to post the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/06\/thursday-morning-data-dump\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday morning data dump<\/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":[10,11,12,19,20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening-heaven-forbid","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-practical-freedom","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466","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=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}