{"id":7783,"date":"2011-11-07T02:03:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T09:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2011-11-07T02:03:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T09:03:43","slug":"monday-miscellany-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/monday-miscellany-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesaltucher.com\/2011\/11\/how-to-change-the-world-or-how-to-occupy-yourself\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hm. Great minds.<\/a> (You may recall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/10\/09\/occupy-your-ownself\/\">this<\/a>.)\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2011\/1104\/Stop-waiting-for-Washington\" target=\"_blank\"><i>almost<\/i> great ones<\/a>. (Funny how so many people come so close but miss the real point.) (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.)\n<li>Oooh, da <a href=\"http:\/\/article.wn.com\/view\/2011\/11\/04\/Mandel_Police_duty_to_protect_their_sources\/\" target=\"_blank\">poo widdle <del datetime=\"2011-11-07T00:23:56+00:00\">snitch<\/del> powice infowment<\/a>. Him get his widdle feewings hurt. (Tip o&#8217; hat to C^2.)*\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifish.net\/board\/showthread.php?t=148441\" target=\"_blank\">Weird stuff found in the woods<\/a>. (Don&#8217;t click unless you have a <i>lot<\/i> of time to waste today.)\n<li>A tad dated. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovationamerica.us\/index.php\/innovation-daily\/2024-what-sony-played-at-its-annual-shareholder-meeting-this-year\" target=\"_blank\">But amazing<\/a>\n<li>Also amazing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogwork.com\/owfo8\/\" target=\"_blank\">Owl flying in for a kill<\/a> at 1000 frames per second.\n<li>Oh my. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imfdb.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Movie Firearms Database<\/a>. Search on a movie or TV show and learn all about the guns they used (or misused). Isn&#8217;t the Internet wonderful? (Tip o&#8217; hat to D.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisebread.com\/21-frugal-ways-to-reward-yourself-right-now\" target=\"_blank\">Twenty-one frugal ways to reward yourself<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesimpledollar.com\/2011\/11\/01\/the-real-meaning-of-spending-less-than-you-earn\/\" target=\"_blank\">the real meaning<\/a> of spending less than you earn.\n<li>Did you get your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/04\/world\/europe\/guy-fawkes-mask\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Fawkes fix<\/a> this weekend? I watched <i>V for Vendetta<\/i> again. As usual. It never fails to inspire.\n<\/ul>\n<p>* The original article seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. Cliff&#8217;s Notes version: Lifetime criminal, who has continued to be a lifetime criminal &#8212; going in and out of jail while also taking money from the police for the last 15 years to rat out his friends &#8212; has been outed. In court. By a cop. Now he&#8217;s all indignant because &#8230; the police, it seems, aren&#8217;t loyal. Now he&#8217;s getting phone calls telling him to get out of Toronto and he&#8217;s peeing his little-boy pants over it. Sheesh. If the people he&#8217;s been ratting on for 15 years are kind enough to <i>give him warnings<\/i> he ought to consider himself blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hm. Great minds. (You may recall this.) And almost great ones. (Funny how so many people come so close but miss the real point.) (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.) Oooh, da poo widdle snitch powice infowment. Him get his widdle feewings hurt. (Tip o&#8217; hat to C^2.)* Weird stuff found in the woods. (Don&#8217;t click unless you have a lot of time to waste today.) A tad dated. But amazing Also amazing. Owl flying in for a kill at 1000 frames per second. Oh my. The Internet Movie Firearms Database. Search on a movie or TV show and learn all&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/monday-miscellany-49\/\">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":[4,12,18,19,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","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=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}