{"id":3122,"date":"2010-07-05T20:44:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T02:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2010-07-05T20:45:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T02:45:58","slug":"weekend-linkorama-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Non-political links:<\/p>\n

  • Another great TED talk on the little things. This sort of logic is a key reason that I’m a libertarian — I think small policy change can be more effective than big massive expensive endeavors, but small changes don’t get slavering media coverage or the approval of historians<\/a>. But I put it here in non-political links because it applies to everything. Another example I can think of is companies that invest zillions in revamping their website when a few small fixes would be better (I’m looking at you, Facebook).<\/li>\n
  • Turns out those Russian agents were a lot prettier than smart<\/a>. It’s hilarious how much ink this story has gotten now that Anna Chapman’s face has been plastered all over the TV.<\/li>\n

    Political links:<\/p>\n

  • Just when you think Oliver Stone can’t get any dumber<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Are the Tea Parties just a bunch of angry white men? Not so fast<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Heh<\/a>. The lawyers are mad about the BP settlement because they won’t get their contingency fees.<\/li>\n
  • More good climate skepticism from Ron Bailey<\/a>. Be sure to read his postscript on page 2.<\/li>\n
  • The IRS can’t do its books<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • You know, if the Bush Administration were keeping the press away<\/a> from embarrassing video and photos of an oil spill made by a huge campaign donor, I have a feeling it would be a bigger story.<\/li>\n
  • Rant warning. Charles Bolden gave a speech this weekend claiming NASA’s new mission is international outreach<\/a> and claiming no single nation can reach beyond low earth orbit. This is categorical bullshit. We lack not the ability, but the will. It’s becoming clearer that NASA spending — both science and exploration — is one of the few items the Democrats may cut. I wonder if this will stop science bloggers from blushing and fainting over everything Obama does.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Non-political links: Another great TED talk on the little things. This sort of logic is a key reason that I’m a libertarian — I think small policy change can be more effective than big massive expensive endeavors, but small changes don’t get slavering media coverage or the approval of historians. But I put it here … Continue reading Weekend Linkorama<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Om","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3148,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}