{"id":638,"date":"2008-01-16T20:12:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T20:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2014-08-04T16:53:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:53:56","slug":"interesting-reading-the-bumper-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2008\/01\/16\/interesting-reading-the-bumper-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Reading &#8211; The Bumper Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big list of links today that I&#8217;ve been meaning to post for a while now. Lets start with the serious links before lightening the tone for some funny posts to end on. These first links are just scary.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/2008\/01\/the_7_habits_of_highly_effecti.html\" target=\"_blank\">The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Propagandists<\/a> &#8211; a not-so-nice look at what some of the candidates for the American presidency have been at and how you can see through the smoke and mirrors.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/09\/a-health-care-system-to-die-for\/\" target=\"_blank\">A health care system to die for<\/a> &#8211; look at how bad Ireland does &#8211; we&#8217;re third last, not far behind the US!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These next two stories are funny at first but get scary when you stop and think about them a bit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/securosis.com\/2008\/01\/09\/no-fly-list-protects-airplane-from-5-year-old-security-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\">No Fly List Protects Airplane From 5-Year Old Security Risk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/securosis.com\/2008\/01\/05\/are-you-a-hacker-want-to-crash-the-787-youre-flying-on\/\" target=\"_blank\">Are You A Hacker? Want To Crash The 787 You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Flying On?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking of funny yet a little scary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scalzi.com\/whatever\/?p=280\" target=\"_blank\">Why It Won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Work<\/a> &#8211; Commentary on Sony&#8217;s new DRM free music venture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure this counts are scary but it sure makes me angry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/commandline.org.uk\/more\/squat-for-the-win-2008-01-09-03-36\" target=\"_blank\">Network Solutions &#8211; Squat for the Win<\/a> &#8211; some pretty dodgy dealing by a large internet company<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, enough scary stuff, here are some interesting (nerdy) links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamcarving.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing<\/a> &#8211; this is really smart and really cool!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/001034.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Enduring Art of Computer Programming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vjarmy.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/howto_iphone_webclip_icons.php\" target=\"_blank\">HOWTO: iPhone Webclip Icons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/131094\/2007\/12\/screensharepower.html\" target=\"_blank\">Add more power to 10.5&#8217;s screen sharing<\/a> &#8211; get more out of Leopard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally, a funny note to end on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesmcinerney.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/if-you-have-ever-been-iscrewed.html\" target=\"_blank\">If you have ever been iScrewed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyofthebutton.com\/2008\/01\/14\/you-snooze-you-lose\/\" target=\"_blank\">You snooze, you lose<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big list of links today that I&#8217;ve been meaning to post for a while now. Lets start with the serious links before lightening the tone for some funny posts to end on. These first links are just scary. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Propagandists &#8211; a not-so-nice look at what some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7498,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/7498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}