{"id":747,"date":"2008-08-29T08:33:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T07:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=747"},"modified":"2008-08-29T08:34:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T07:34:12","slug":"links-for-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2008\/08\/29\/links-for-august-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"links for august 2008"},"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.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/jul\/25\/pressandpublishing.thetimes\">Irate emails from Giles Coren to subeditors<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Crookedtimber.org <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2008\/07\/25\/what-obligation-maximise-what\">&#8216;the phrase \u201cmaximise profits\u201d can\u2019t be unpacked into a coherent decision rule&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/06\/23\/080623fa_fact_thurman\">new yorker article about ancient european cave art<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2008\/08\/01\/anthrax\/index.html\">unanswered questions about the 2001 anthrax scares<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I have solved the making DVDs out of AVIs problem and the solution is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdflick.net\/\">DVD flick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwellpublishing.com\/bauthor\/seo.asp\">Optimise your journal article abstract for search engines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Monbiot: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/aug\/19\/usforeignpolicy.russia\">&#8216;The US does not really have a foreign policy. It has a series of domestic policies which it projects beyond its borders&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New Yorker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/03\/17\/080317fa_fact_gopnik\">&#8216;Magic is the dramatization of explanation more than it is the engineering of effects.&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/due-diligence.typepad.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/burkes-law-of-metadynamics.html\">Burke&#8217;s Law of Metadynamics<\/a> (via interconnected)<\/li>\n<li>You Tube <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5iHgbvmSeuI&#038;feature=related\">BBC interview with Philip Pullman about His Dark Materials and storytelling in general<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New Yorker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2007\/04\/16\/070416fa_fact_colapinto\">&#8216;Pirah\u00e3 undermines Noam Chomsky\u2019s idea of a universal grammar&#8217;<\/a> (and is a good moral in the deep cultural biases that are worked into most of Western science&#8217;s behavioural tests)<\/li>\n<li>New Yorker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/atlarge\/2007\/11\/26\/071126crat_atlarge_wood\">How &#8216;War and Peace&#8217; works<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2678446?seq=1\">The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungry-hackers.com\/2008\/08\/gmail-account-hacking-tool.html\">Turn on security in Gmail<\/a> (via Ben Goldacre)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theobserver\/2003\/jan\/19\/features.magazine57\">Philippe Petit (&#8220;Man on Wire&#8221;) after the famous Twin Towers wirewalk<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irate emails from Giles Coren to subeditors Crookedtimber.org &#8216;the phrase \u201cmaximise profits\u201d can\u2019t be unpacked into a coherent decision rule&#8217; new yorker article about ancient european cave art unanswered questions about the 2001 anthrax scares I have solved the making DVDs out of AVIs problem and the solution is called DVD flick Optimise your journal [&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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","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-c3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747"}],"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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}