{"id":186746,"date":"2013-10-25T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/10\/25\/linkage-337\/"},"modified":"2013-10-25T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T10:50:00","slug":"linkage-337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/10\/25\/linkage-337\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/oct\/24\/nsa-surveillance-world-leaders-calls\">NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>)  So now, our allies&#8217; oxen are gored.  Pass the popcorn.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/20\/fox-news-reportedly-used-fake-commenter-account\/196509\">Fox News PR Flacks Aggressively Sock-puppeted blog comments<\/a> (<i>Media Matters<\/i>)  Sock puppets are inherently untrustworthy.  Full disclosure:  I have sock-puppeted.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/cassini\/main\/\">Cassini images of Saturn<\/a> (<i>NASA<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_20186_6-ridiculous-myths-about-middle-ages-everyone-believes.html\">6 Ridiculous Myths About the Middle Ages Everyone Believes<\/a> (<i>Cracked.com<\/i>) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/research\/studies\/gamers-solve-decade-old-hiv-puzzle-in-ten-days\/\">Gamers solve decade old HIV puzzle in ten days<\/a> (<i>ZME Science<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com\/about.php\">Thomas Friedman Op\/Ed Generator<\/a>&nbsp; Computer generated gibberish, which is indistinguishable from his actual writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/editorialcartoonists.com\/cartoons\/VarveG\/2013\/VarveG20131017_low.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>H\/t PP at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a> for passing along this cartoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts (The Guardian) So now, our allies&#8217; oxen are gored. Pass the popcorn. Fox News PR Flacks Aggressively Sock-puppeted blog comments (Media Matters) Sock puppets are inherently untrustworthy. Full disclosure: I have sock-puppeted. Cassini images of Saturn (NASA) 6 Ridiculous Myths About the &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-186746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186746"}],"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=186746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}