{"id":964,"date":"2010-04-01T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T21:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=964"},"modified":"2010-04-01T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T21:55:12","slug":"late-thursday-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/late-thursday-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Thursday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>One year ago today, a man named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_of_Ian_Tomlinson\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Tomlinson was attacked by police<\/a>. He died minutes later. They tried to cover it up, of course. Most Americans have probably never heard of Tomlinson. Let&#8217;s just say our country has no monopoly on armed thugs roaming the street in uniform.\n<li>Tip o&#8217; the hat to Jim Bovard for <a href=\"http:\/\/2010.census.gov\/2010census\/take10map\/\" target=\"_blank\">this lovely interactive map<\/a> that shows current rates of return for census forms. Good going, Texas! Some of your counties have rates as low as 19%. Interesting that basically the whole southern tier of states is balking at the snoopery. (To see your area, enter the name of your state; once the state comes up, you can mouse over individual counties.) The map does not address how many of those returned forms contained an answer to only the One Constitutional Question.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johannes-eva.net\/index.php?page=2009_10_useful_ubuntu_guide_karmic\" target=\"_blank\">Eva&#8217;s Useful Guide to Ubuntu 9.10<\/a>. Johannes Eva left this link in the comments section of my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/03\/26\/linux-this-time-it-really-is-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linux for Newbies<\/a> thread. Could be helpful. (Hint: Using Mint instead of Ubuntu will save you having to download those media codecs, but you can still benefit from the guide since Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2010\/03\/emails-navy-dogs-deplorable-conditions-contractor\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> shouldn&#8217;t happen to a dog. Not even a government-contracted dog.\n<li>Word for the day: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sousveillance\" target=\"_blank\">Sousveillance.<\/a>\n<li>Great, great comment from the gutsy Larken Rose. He says he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyforall.net\/?p=4047\" target=\"_blank\">likes ObamaCare<\/a>. And resistance.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fairfieldweekly.com\/news\/featured-news\/waiting-for-sananda\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Waiting for Sananda.&#8221;<\/a> Dr. Phil Maymin explains how government and its true believers are like a tiny band of devotees who sat and waited for the end of the world 50-some years ago.\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2010\/04\/rep-hank-johnson-thinks-guam-could-capsize\" target=\"_blank\">just in time for April Fools Day<\/a> &#8230; (BTW, the clip tells <i>so<\/i> much more than the words do. We are being governed by even worse morons than we imagined.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago today, a man named Ian Tomlinson was attacked by police. He died minutes later. They tried to cover it up, of course. Most Americans have probably never heard of Tomlinson. Let&#8217;s just say our country has no monopoly on armed thugs roaming the street in uniform. Tip o&#8217; the hat to Jim Bovard for this lovely interactive map that shows current rates of return for census forms. Good going, Texas! Some of your counties have rates as low as 19%. Interesting that basically the whole southern tier of states is balking at the snoopery. (To see your&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/late-thursday-miscellany\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Late 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":[6,8,11,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-miscellaneous","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\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}