{"id":186177,"date":"2014-04-17T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/17\/linkage-315\/"},"modified":"2014-04-17T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T22:29:00","slug":"linkage-315","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/17\/linkage-315\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/fbi-uncovers-alqaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enj,35788\/\">FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States<\/a> (<i>America&#8217;s Finest News Source<\/i>) Read Eric Frank Russell&#8217;s novel <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wasp_%28novel%29\">Wasp<\/a><\/i>, and you will understand.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2014\/04\/bubble-retail-investors-told-smart-money-bails.html\">\u201cIt\u2019s Not a Bubble,\u201d Retail Investors Are Told As The Smart Money Bails Out<\/a> (<i>Naked Capitalism<\/i>) My rule of thumb is that a bubble is due to burst whenever the rest of us start moving in.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freedom-to-tinker.com\/blog\/dreisman\/cookies-that-give-you-away-the-surveillance-implications-of-web-tracking\/\">Cookies that give you away: The surveillance implications of web tracking<\/a> (<i>Freedom to Tinker<\/i>) Kinda dry, but worth the read.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/defending%20kickbacks\/\">Defending Kickbacks<\/a> (<i>The Baseline Scenario<\/i>) A good description about how current rules, which do not require a broker to act in the best interest of the customer, is immoral and corrupt.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/A%20SILICON%20VALLEY%20DISASTER:%20A%2021-Year-Old%20Stanford%20Kid%20Got%20$30%20Million,%20Then%20Everything%20Blew%20Up%20%20Read%20more:%20http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/inside-story-of-clinkle-2014-4\">A SILICON VALLEY DISASTER: A 21-Year-Old Stanford Kid Got $30 Million, Then Everything Blew Up<\/a> (<i>Business Insider<\/i>) This reminds me of Razorfish, and when its CEO could not tell 60 Minutes II what the hell they actually did.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/citation\/2014-Public-Service\"><i>Guardian<\/i> and <i>Washington Post<\/i> awarded Pulitzer for Snowden revalations<\/a> (<i>The Pulitzer Prizes<\/i>) I kind of missed this over Passover.&nbsp; Well deserved by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poirtras, and Bart Gellman.&nbsp; I thought that the Pulitzer jury would wimp out, but they didn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-us-must-open-the-book-on-the-use-of-torture-to-move-forward\/2014\/04\/11\/67925756-c18e-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html\">Torture doesn&#8217;t just hurt guys in turbans<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) A linguist who aided in interrogations discusses the damage that our torture program did to him.&nbsp; Read this <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best April Fools joke ever:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R9rymEWJX38\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>H\/t Neo at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States (America&#8217;s Finest News Source) Read Eric Frank Russell&#8217;s novel Wasp, and you will understand. \u201cIt\u2019s Not a Bubble,\u201d Retail Investors Are Told As The Smart Money Bails Out (Naked Capitalism) My rule of thumb is that a bubble is due to &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-186177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186177"}],"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=186177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}