{"id":4383,"date":"2011-06-02T18:47:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T00:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2012-06-15T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T17:34:55","slug":"wednesday-linkorama-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4383","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Twitter siphoning off my political rants, you&#8217;re getting more &#8230; non-political links:<\/p>\n<li>Cracked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_19225_5-reasons-twitter-isnt-actually-overthrowing-governments.html\">debunks<\/a> the Twitter revolution.  I&#8217;m forced to mostly agree.  Social networking may have played a minor role in the upheavals in the Middle East, at best.  But real activism involves risking your life, not turning your Facebook profile green.<\/li>\n<li>I really really like this idea of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/financial\/2011\/05\/30\/110530ta_talk_surowiecki\">Billion Price Index<\/a> as a complement to traditional inflation metrics.<\/li>\n<li>Do you know &#8230; do either of you have any idea of how fucking glad I am I don&#8217;t have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2295603\/pagenum\/all\/\">big ass commute<\/a> anymore?  I can&#8217;t imagine how I did it for so long.<\/li>\n<li>I really hope the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/05\/31\/homework-debate_n_867142.html?fbwall\">anti-homework agenda<\/a> catches on.  What&#8217;s being done to kids these days is absurd busy work bullshit.<\/li>\n<li>So do you think studies like <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/low-carb-diets-hurt-arteries\/story?id=13728382\">this<\/a> will, in any way, slow down those who want to ban fatty foods?<\/li>\n<p>Political links:<\/p>\n<li>Experts are once again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2011\/05\/31\/experts-continue-to-express-amazement-at-declining-crime\/\">stunned<\/a> that poverty does not cause crime.  They seem to be stunned by this quite a lot.<\/li>\n<li>Want to stimulate the economy? Wonder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,2075226-2,00.html\">how<\/a> America can lead the world in innovation again? Repeal <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/27\/bye-bye-wall-street\">SOX<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Twitter siphoning off my political rants, you&#8217;re getting more &#8230; non-political links: Cracked debunks the Twitter revolution. I&#8217;m forced to mostly agree. Social networking may have played a minor role in the upheavals in the Middle East, at best. But real activism involves risking your life, not turning your Facebook profile green. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[15,5,7],"tags":[141,125,167,166,409,405,182,83],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order","category-politics","category-science","tag-crime","tag-economics","tag-education","tag-health","tag-law-and-order","tag-politics","tag-social-networking","tag-sociology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-18H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","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=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}