{"id":4643,"date":"2011-09-24T09:34:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2011-09-24T09:34:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T15:34:30","slug":"saturday-linkorama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4643","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Holy crap.  Freakonomics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2011\/09\/22\/picking-the-nfl-playoffs-how-the-experts-fumble-the-snap\/\">backs me up<\/a> on how spineless and useless NFL pre-season picks are.  I really should be an economist.<\/li>\n<li>Cracked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/how-dr.-who-became-my-religion\/\">takes on<\/a> Doctor Who.  It&#8217;s so weird to see this show become so popular.  When I was a kid, Whovians were looked down on by Trekkies.<\/li>\n<li>What 40 years of war has done to <a href=\"http:\/\/kuvaton.com\/kuvei\/kabul_1970_then_now_2010.jpg\">Kabul<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-drugs-epidemic-20110918,0,5517691.story\">this story<\/a>.  The Drug Warriors have a noted tendency to overstate their case, as does the CDC.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t tell is this <a href=\"http:\/\/inspire76.com\/2011\/03\/01\/1980-vampire-hunting-kit\/\">vampire kit<\/a> is a real thing from the 19th century or somebody&#8217;s art project.<\/li>\n<li>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/11261\/1175298-115.stm\">missing link<\/a> has been found.  But remember, finding a transitional fossil just means you need to find two more.<\/li>\n<li>If it weren&#8217;t for his Fair Tax position, I&#8217;d really like <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/gary-johnson-and-his-neighbors\">Gary Johnson<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap. Freakonomics backs me up on how spineless and useless NFL pre-season picks are. I really should be an economist. Cracked takes on Doctor Who. It&#8217;s so weird to see this show become so popular. When I was a kid, Whovians were looked down on by Trekkies. What 40 years of war has done &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4643\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday 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":[24,20,5,7,4],"tags":[48,49,46,45,50,33,47],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-movies","category-politics","category-science","category-sports","tag-afghanistan","tag-doctor-who","tag-drug-war","tag-evolution","tag-football","tag-science-2","tag-war-on-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1cT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","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=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}