{"id":181302,"date":"2016-08-08T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/08\/linkage-279\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T04:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T09:56:00","slug":"linkage-279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/08\/linkage-279\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/mcdonalds-let-people-name-their-own-burger-creations-and-of-course-it-backfired-hilariously\/\">McDonald\u2019s Let People Name Their Own Burger Creations and of Course It Backfired Hilariously<\/a> (<i>22 Words<\/i>) Why do they keep trying this?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2013\/09\/plantations-practiced-modern-management\">Plantations Practiced Modern Management<\/a> (<i>Harvard Business Review<\/i>) The point is not that plantations were like modern management, it is that modern management is like plantations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/earth-matters\/animals\/stories\/humpback-whales-around-globe-are-mysteriously-rescuing-animals-orcas\">Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuing animals from orcas<\/a>  (<i>Mother Nature Network<\/i>)  It&#8217;s a good thing that Kirk, Spock, and McCoy saved them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/37061-cities-need-more-public-transit-not-more-uber-and-self-driving-cars\">Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars<\/a> (<i>Truth Out<\/i>) File this under, &#8220;Well, Duh!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/08\/02\/landlord-installs-faraday-cage-to-block-phone-signals-because-so\/\">Landlord installs Faraday cage to block phone signals because social media is ruining British pubs<\/a> (<i>The Telegraph<\/i>) A few years back this was an April Fools joke, and now it is reality.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neweurope.eu\/article\/india-gradually-dumps\/\">India is abandoning Monsanto\u2019s GM cotton for indigenous varieties<\/a> (<i>New Europe<\/i>) The Monsanto crops are too expensive, and losing their effectiveness against pests.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/08\/03\/best-joint-roller-in-the-world.html\">Best joint-roller in the world earns $1000s for his creations<\/a> (<i>Boing Boing<\/i>) Smokable joint art, including &#8220;Smokemon Go&#8221;.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have some climate change inaction figures:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vTNllJWmhrg\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><br \/>H\/t DC at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s Let People Name Their Own Burger Creations and of Course It Backfired Hilariously (22 Words) Why do they keep trying this? Plantations Practiced Modern Management (Harvard Business Review) The point is not that plantations were like modern management, it is that modern management is like plantations. Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuing &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-181302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181302"}],"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=181302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}