{"id":346,"date":"2005-04-18T14:50:25","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T14:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=346"},"modified":"2005-04-18T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T14:50:25","slug":"links-for-18th-of-april-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2005\/04\/18\/links-for-18th-of-april-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 18th of April 2005"},"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:\/\/farmerversusfox.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/playing-cards-for-really-tiny-stakes.html\">Alex&#8217;s thoughts on the NEF Democs (deliberative meeting of citizens) game<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixingmemory.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-about-science.html\">Mixing Memory&#8217;s follow up post on blogging\/writing about science<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Columnists\/Column\/0,5673,1454932,00.html\">Polly Toynbee just <i>raging<\/i> about the  popular press eulogising the Pope<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/001816.html\">&#8216;Some people say we should destroy these intellectual terrorists &#8212; invade their churches, kill their discussion leaders and convert them all at gunpoint to our mainstream conservative values. But that would be futile. Force is useless against the rational mind. The only thing these terrorists understand is cold, hard reason. That&#8217;s why the only solution, I&#8217;m afraid, is to hunt them down, one by one, and persuade them &#8212; with massive, overwhelming logical firepower &#8212; that resistance is futile, and that the archaic Enlightment values they hold dear are now as obsolete as democracy itself.&#8217;<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/news\/archives\/internet\/2005\/04\/12\/wikipedia_first_with_the_news.html\">Guardian blog discusses the merits of wikipedia<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/loom\/archives\/2005\/04\/12\/blinding_new_evidence.php\">Carl Zimmer gives some well-deserved smackdown to the creationist site Answers in Genesis<\/a> Damn i&#8217;m glad this man is around\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.cmu.edu\/derprize\/\">David Rumelhart has Pick&#8217;s Dementia &#8211; a cruel irony<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/typography\/ctfonts\/WordRecognition.aspx\">The Science of Word Recognition: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bouma<\/a> typography meets psychology at microsoft.com\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com\">www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com<\/a> Web form compares your answers to the election positions of the UK political parties\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex&#8217;s thoughts on the NEF Democs (deliberative meeting of citizens) game Mixing Memory&#8217;s follow up post on blogging\/writing about science Polly Toynbee just raging about the popular press eulogising the Pope &#8216;Some people say we should destroy these intellectual terrorists &#8212; invade their churches, kill their discussion leaders and convert them all at gunpoint to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-5A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}