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Friday Ark # 515

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We are on the road again so updates will be sparse but wanted to sail rather than skipping entirely.  Have a great week!

We post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….?

Visit all the boarders, Link to the Ark and check back for updates through Sunday afternoon!

You can board the Friday Ark by submitting your link via the Linky Tool, leaving a comment to this post, or emailing fridayark AT themodulator.org.

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You can find previous editions at the not quite up to date Arkives page.

Cats

Birds

Invertebrates

Canines
Other Vertebrates

In Memoriam

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

Didn’t Make It (Extinct)

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to: carnivalofthecats(at)gmail.com which goes up every Sunday

This entry was posted in Google Privacy on by (updated on ) | Open »

“The number-one pop­u­lar gripe against Google is that they’re watch­ing ev­ery­thing we do on­line and us­ing it to mon­e­tize us. That one doesn’t both­er me in the slight­est. The ser­vices are free so someone’s got­ta pay the ren­t, and that’s the ad­ver­tis­er­s.”

Tim Bray, Ongoing, Google + 1yr 2015-03-29

Well, there are other ways to pay the rent. The fact that Google and its fellow data collectors are gathering so much personal information is beyond creepy. These apps are not free and the price that the users are paying may be far too high in both the short and long runs.

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,..

Via

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