{"id":180142,"date":"2017-07-10T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/10\/linkage-199\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T04:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T09:49:00","slug":"linkage-199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/10\/linkage-199\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/jul\/04\/why-roman-concrete-still-stands-strong-while-modern-version-decays\">Why Roman concrete still stands strong while modern version decays<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) I love me some history of technology.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-4664568\/Owners-snap-cats-shunning-expensive-toys.html\">Cats shun expensive toys in photos on Boredom Therapy<\/a> (<i>Daily Mail Online<\/i>) You buy a cat toys, it plays with the box it came in instead.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/07\/04\/lots-of-craft-beer-is-brewed-by-anheuser-busch-heres-how-to-spot-the-real-stuff\/\">Lots of \u2018craft\u2019 beer is brewed by Anheuser-Busch. Here\u2019s how to spot the real stuff.<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) Basically, it&#8217;s a private label that purports that the beer is not made by a conglomerate.  Meh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/felix.kinja.com\/facebook-were-not-just-sexist-were-also-innumerate-1794888738\">Facebook: We&#8217;re not just sexist, we&#8217;re also innumerate!<\/a> (<i>Felix Salmon<\/i>) Notes that Facebook&#8217;s defense against accusations of sexism is to issue a correcting factor that that acknowledges existing sexism.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/welcome-to-our-startup-where-everyone-is-23-years-old-because-we-believe-old-people-are-visually-displeasing-and-out-of-ideas\">Welcome to Our Startup Where Everyone is 23 Years Old Because We Believe Old People Are Visually Displeasing and Out of Ideas<\/a> (<i>McSweeney\u2019s<\/i>) Parody, but remarkably close to the truth.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/06\/ringless-voicemail-spam-wont-be-exempt-from-anti-robocall-rules\/\">Ringless voicemail spam won\u2019t be exempt from anti-robocall rules<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) It turns out that there is a level of awfulness in business that even Republicans won&#8217;t support in public.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/a27123\/model-f-project-buckling-spring-keyboard\/\">The Best Keyboard Ever Is Back<\/a>&nbsp; (<i>Popular Mechanics<\/i>)&nbsp; Someone is releasing an updated version of IBM&#8217;s buckling spring keyboard.&nbsp; At $300, it&#8217;s kind of pricey though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>John Oliver on Sinclair Group and media consolidation in the local news sphere:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GvtNyOzGogc\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Roman concrete still stands strong while modern version decays (The Guardian) I love me some history of technology. Cats shun expensive toys in photos on Boredom Therapy (Daily Mail Online) You buy a cat toys, it plays with the box it came in instead. Lots of \u2018craft\u2019 beer is brewed by Anheuser-Busch. Here\u2019s how &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-180142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}