{"id":9045,"date":"2012-02-16T13:47:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9045"},"modified":"2012-02-16T13:47:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:47:55","slug":"thursday-miscellany-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/thursday-miscellany-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/pigeon-impossible\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Pigeon: Impossible.&#8221;<\/a> \ud83d\ude42\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/19\/magazine\/shopping-habits.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">How companies learn your secrets<\/a>. The bit about the pregnant women (pages 6 &#038; 7) is the creepiest. Hint: aside from not giving &#8217;em any personal data (e.g. pay cash, never participate in a survey, etc.), don&#8217;t be a creature of habit.\n<li>Oh, those tidy Swiss. Now they&#8217;re set to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/technology\/articles\/2012\/02\/15\/swiss_craft_janitor_satellites_to_grab_space_junk\/\" target=\"_blank\">clean up outer space<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/earthquakes-trauma-affect-brain\/story?id=15606723\" target=\"_blank\">How the brain responds<\/a> to disaster. This specifically pertains to earthquakes, but I know from experience that it applies more broadly. (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.)\n<li>Long feared, now here: <a href=\"http:\/\/cen.acs.org\/articles\/90\/i7\/Odd-Couplings.html\" target=\"_blank\">microchips you swallow with your meds<\/a> to report your body&#8217;s doings.\n<li>This is creepy, too. But as long as it&#8217;s only by consent (yeah, riiiight), I can see how <a href=\"http:\/\/techpp.com\/2009\/06\/21\/free-cell-phone-tracking\/\" target=\"_blank\">free cell-phone tracking<\/a> services could be useful.\n<li>And for those who didn&#8217;t get it via my (gods forbid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/101ForLiberty\" target=\"_blank\">shiny new Twitter feed<\/a>, I ponder <a href=\"http:\/\/paladinplanet.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/ineptocracy.html\" target=\"_blank\">ineptocracy<\/a> over at Paladin Planet.\n<li>ADDED (from D): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/guest-post-long-arm-uncle-sam-just-got-longer\" target=\"_blank\">the long arm of Uncle Sam<\/a> just got longer &#8212; as yet another secretive, unconstitutional federal agency decides it has authority to regulate businesses, <i>even if those businesses aren&#8217;t in the U.S.<\/i>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you once again to MJR, link detective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pigeon: Impossible.&#8221; \ud83d\ude42 How companies learn your secrets. The bit about the pregnant women (pages 6 &#038; 7) is the creepiest. Hint: aside from not giving &#8217;em any personal data (e.g. pay cash, never participate in a survey, etc.), don&#8217;t be a creature of habit. Oh, those tidy Swiss. Now they&#8217;re set to clean up outer space. How the brain responds to disaster. This specifically pertains to earthquakes, but I know from experience that it applies more broadly. (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.) Long feared, now here: microchips you swallow with your meds to report your body&#8217;s doings. This is&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/thursday-miscellany-19\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[4,11,13,16,18,19,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","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\/9045","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=9045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}