{"id":181104,"date":"2016-09-29T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/29\/linkage-268\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T10:06:00","slug":"linkage-268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/29\/linkage-268\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/meet-the-winners-of-this-years-ig-nobel-prizes-1786983299\">Meet the Winners of This Year&#8217;s Ig Nobel Prizes<\/a> (<i>Gizmodo<\/i>) Money quote, &#8220;Chemistry Prize: Volkswagen, for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/sep\/23\/ukraine-corruption-bigotry-western-support-russia\">The west looks on as corruption and bigotry rule in the &#8216;new Ukraine&#8217;<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) This is a feature, not a bug.  Corruption and bigotry facilitate looting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/sep\/23\/quiz-who-said-it-a-techie-or-a-communist\">Who said it: tech CEO or communist leader? Take our quiz | Technology<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) I got 11 out of 14.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20160915\/18183535533\/traffic-is-fake-audience-numbers-are-garbage-nobody-knows-how-many-people-see-anything.shtml\">Traffic Is Fake, Audience Numbers Are Garbage, And Nobody Knows How Many People See Anything<\/a> (<i>Techdirt<\/i>) I think that this can be more generally applied to advertising, not just internet ads.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2016\/09\/26\/national\/history\/ancient-roman-coins-unearthed-castle-ruins-okinawa\/#.V-s908lyXdS\">Ancient Roman coins unearthed from castle ruins in Okinawa<\/a> (<i>The Japan Times<\/i>) Get your crypto-archeology geek on.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/2016\/09\/nick-clegg-reveals-there-special-security-door-cats-downing-street\">Nick Clegg reveals that there is a special security door for cats in Downing Street<\/a> (<i>New Statesman<\/i>) Cats rule the world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/todenhofer-interview-with-al-nusra-commander-the-americans-stand-on-our-side\/\">Todenh\u00f6fer: Interview With Al-Nusra Commander &#8220;The Americans stand on our side&#8221;<\/a> (<i>South Front<\/i>) Not a surprise.  There are no Syrian moderates fighting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blackadder&#8217;s Nationality Based Insults:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qnFeJzOfvxQ?rel=0\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The origins of the Brexit may be here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Winners of This Year&#8217;s Ig Nobel Prizes (Gizmodo) Money quote, &#8220;Chemistry Prize: Volkswagen, for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested.&#8221; The west looks on as corruption and bigotry rule in the &#8216;new Ukraine&#8217; (The Guardian) This is a feature, &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":[806],"class_list":["post-181104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181104"}],"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=181104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}