{"id":181254,"date":"2016-08-19T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/19\/linkage-276\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T04:34:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T09:34:00","slug":"linkage-276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/19\/linkage-276\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/news\/business\/article95394472.html\">Taocma union local first in nation to represent workers in the recreational cannabis industry<\/a> (<i>News Tribune<\/i>) Look for the union label, when you are toking that reefer or bong\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcmansionhell.tumblr.com\/post\/148605513816\/mcmansions-101-what-makes-a-mcmansion-bad\">McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad&#8230;<\/a> (<i>McMansion Hell Tumblr<\/i>)  It&#8217;s a nice look at balance and design in architecture.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/news\/a44949\/ancient-roman-shipwreck-coins-bronze-statues-discovered\/\">Ancient Roman Shipwreck Full of Coins and Bronze Statues Discovered Off Israel<\/a> (<i>Esquire<\/i>) Get your history geek on.  The ship was full of statues that were to be melted down.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jesterscourt.cc\/2016\/08\/15\/twitter-can-fix-twitter-just-lines-code\/\">Twitter Can Fix Twitter With Just a Few Lines of Code<\/a> (<i>JestersCourt<\/i>) He proposes twitter allowing users to ban the mention of them by banned users.  Interesting concept, but too open to abuse and avoidance.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/zeitgeist\/scientists-find-earthlike-planet-orbiting-proxima-centauri-a-1107983.html\">Scientists Find Earthlike Planet Orbiting Proxima Centauri<\/a> (<i>Speigel<\/i>) Relatively close by, but I am not sure how &#8220;earth like&#8221; it would be orbiting a red dwarf.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2016\/08\/americas-addiction-mercenaries\/130731\/\">The Hidden Costs of America&#8217;s Addiction to Mercenaries<\/a> (<i>Defense One<\/i>) &#8220;Since 2009, the ratio of contractors to troops in war zones has increased from 1 to 1 to about 3 to 1.&#8221;&nbsp; Our hollowed out military.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They got the voice wrong, but it is still brilliant:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OJvzgLWTrcs\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>H\/t JR at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taocma union local first in nation to represent workers in the recreational cannabis industry (News Tribune) Look for the union label, when you are toking that reefer or bong\u2026\u2026\u2026 McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad&#8230; (McMansion Hell Tumblr) It&#8217;s a nice look at balance and design in architecture. Ancient Roman Shipwreck Full of Coins &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181254"}],"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=181254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}