{"id":1145,"date":"2010-09-01T11:40:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2010-09-01T11:40:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:40:12","slug":"links-for-august-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2010\/09\/01\/links-for-august-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for August 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: solid #BBBBBB 1px; font-size: 11px; background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 0px 7px 0px 7px;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g\">RSA Animate Zizek<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/education\/can-the-founders-of-sun-microsystems-finally-break-our-textbook-habit\/4153\">Breaking the billions of dollars textbook market<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/15\/reclaiming-the-imagination\/\">&#8216;imagination is not only about fiction: it is integral to our painful progress in separating fiction from fact&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Adam Curtis: The Readl Mad Men <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/adamcurtis\/2010\/08\/madison_avenue.html\">&#8216;Experiments in the laboratory of consumerism 1959-67&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/aug\/15\/nudge-cameron-veneer-thaler-dogma\">&#8216;Nudge&#8230;came at a convenient moment for free-market capitalism. It argues that there\u2019s nothing wrong with markets, only with people, and the state\u2019s role is to make people fit for markets, not the other way about. Cameron<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Johann Hari: The management consultancy scam <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/johann-hari\/johann-hari-the-management-consultancy-scam-2057127.html\">&#8216;labour productivity growth was much higher in the countries where it is hardest to fire people&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2010\/20_3_social-science.html\">&#8216;What Social Science Does\u2014and Doesn\u2019t\u2014Know&#8217;<\/a> (and why)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RSA Animate Zizek Breaking the billions of dollars textbook market &#8216;imagination is not only about fiction: it is integral to our painful progress in separating fiction from fact&#8217; Adam Curtis: The Readl Mad Men &#8216;Experiments in the laboratory of consumerism 1959-67&#8217; &#8216;Nudge&#8230;came at a convenient moment for free-market capitalism. It argues that there\u2019s nothing wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-it","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}