{"id":9181,"date":"2012-02-29T02:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T09:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9181"},"modified":"2012-02-29T02:40:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T09:40:27","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/29\/wednesday-miscellany-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>We may need eight hours of sleep, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-16964783\" target=\"_blank\">but maybe not in the way we&#8217;ve been told<\/a>.\n<li>Two related from NPR: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2012\/02\/23\/147289169\/is-the-right-to-be-forgotten-the-biggest-threat-to-free-speech-on-the-internet\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8220;right to be forgotten&#8221;<\/a> threatens free speech and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2012\/02\/27\/147497042\/how-much-do-they-know-about-me-in-the-cloud\" target=\"_blank\">how much does the cloud know?<\/a> (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4155\" target=\"_blank\">An open letter to the MPAA&#8217;s Chris Dodd<\/a> from Eric S. Raymond.\n<li>You might save this one for when you&#8217;ve got plenty of time, but here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowstats.com\/article\/no-414-hyperinflation-special-report-2012#_Toc315271597\" target=\"_blank\">special report<\/a> from ShadowStats on our prospects for hyperinflation.\n<li>Yoga. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/28\/health\/nutrition\/yoga-fans-sexual-flames-and-predictably-plenty-of-scandal.html\" target=\"_blank\">And sex<\/a>.\n<li>About those <a href=\"http:\/\/realityfail.com\/2012\/02\/fema-puts-out-contract-for-emergency-camps-to-house-displaced-citizens\/\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA camps<\/a> &#8230; (Can anybody tell me why we&#8217;re going to need camps for &#8220;displaced citizens&#8221; now when we&#8217;ve never actually <i>needed<\/i> them in the entire history of the country?)\n<li>Oh, maybe this helps explain the need: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economicpolicyjournal.com\/2012\/02\/houses-passes-new-bill-that-would-make.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Interpol <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alarabiya.net\/articles\/2012\/02\/28\/197604.html\" target=\"_blank\">arrests 25 supposed members of Anonymous<\/a>. I expect (and hope) that&#8217;s about as effective as cutting 25 heads off a Hydra.\n<li>And even when life goes completely to heck, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbelt-software.com\/stu\/funny_dogs.htm\" target=\"_blank\">our dogs still love us<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may need eight hours of sleep, but maybe not in the way we&#8217;ve been told. Two related from NPR: The &#8220;right to be forgotten&#8221; threatens free speech and how much does the cloud know? (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.) An open letter to the MPAA&#8217;s Chris Dodd from Eric S. Raymond. You might save this one for when you&#8217;ve got plenty of time, but here&#8217;s a special report from ShadowStats on our prospects for hyperinflation. Yoga. And sex. About those FEMA camps &#8230; (Can anybody tell me why we&#8217;re going to need camps for &#8220;displaced citizens&#8221; now when we&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/29\/wednesday-miscellany-20\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[8,11,13,19,20,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/9181","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=9181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}