{"id":4375,"date":"2008-08-07T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2020-08-13T08:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:20:27","slug":"delicious-august-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/08\/07\/delicious-august-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for August 6th through August 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5372,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/olympics\\\/2008096235_olyjuddtv07.html?syndication=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/olympics\\\/2008096235_olyjuddtv07.html?syndication=rss&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5373,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.yahoo.com\\\/s\\\/ap\\\/20080807\\\/ap_on_fe_st\\\/odd_postal_kilt;_ylt=Aoa2mWDJaVPxxHwj8nz2NOJsaMYA&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/news.yahoo.com\\\/s\\\/ap\\\/20080807\\\/ap_on_fe_st\\\/odd_postal_kilt;_ylt=Aoa2mWDJaVPxxHwj8nz2NOJsaMYA&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5374,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.canada.com\\\/windsorstar\\\/news\\\/story.html?id=0ae00464-9d02-416a-9ae4-08ccc246c322&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160303190020\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.canada.com\\\/windsorstar\\\/news\\\/story.html?id=0ae00464-9d02-416a-9ae4-08ccc246c322&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 07:46:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 07:46:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5375,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/codesorcery.net\\\/2008\\\/08\\\/04\\\/beta-beat-pukka-17&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20191015222814\\\/https:\\\/\\\/codesorcery.net\\\/2008\\\/08\\\/04\\\/beta-beat-pukka-17&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 07:46:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 07:46:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5376,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/bestseatinthehouse\\\/2008\\\/08\\\/olympics_planning_packing_and.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Sometime between August 6th and August 7th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/olympics\/2008096235_olyjuddtv07.html?syndication=rss\" title=\"Olympics | You can get Games fix on TV, Web\">Olympics | You can get Games fix on TV, Web<\/a>: The hype for NBC &mdash; which paid a tidy $900 million for the right to station 106 commentators in Beijing this month &mdash; is all about total hours: 3,600 in all. That&#39;s more coverage, the network likes to point out, than the combined total of all previous Olympic Games up to this point. It&#39;s three times the amount of Athens coverage in 2004. We&#39;ll take their word for it. But the vast majority of those hours are events broadcast either on NBC&#39;s broad palette of cable stations, or on the Internet, where a whopping 2,400 of those 3,600 hours translate to streaming on nbcolympics.com.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080807\/ap_on_fe_st\/odd_postal_kilt;_ylt=Aoa2mWDJaVPxxHwj8nz2NOJsaMYA\" title=\"Wash. letter carrier going full kilt ahead\">Wash. letter carrier going full kilt ahead<\/a>: A 6-foot-tall, 250-pound letter carrier is campaigning for the right to take off his pants. Dean Peterson wants the U.S. Postal Service to add kilts as a uniform option for men. (He&#39;s certainly got my support! Wouldn&#39;t mind mounting a campaign like this myself, but at <em>almost<\/em> one full week into my new job, I think it&#39;s a bit early to rock that particular boat.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/windsorstar\/news\/story.html?id=0ae00464-9d02-416a-9ae4-08ccc246c322\" title=\"Greyhound pulls 'bus rage' ads\">Greyhound pulls &#8216;bus rage&#8217; ads<\/a>: Greyhound Canada said Tuesday that it is in the process of pulling a series of ads in an extensive, cross-country campaign featuring the slogan, &quot;There&#39;s a reason you&#39;ve never heard of bus rage.&quot; The company made the move in response to last week&#39;s gruesome beheading murder on an eastbound Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie, Man., which claimed the life of Tim McLean, 22. (I&#39;m sure I <em>shouldn&#39;t<\/em> think this is funny, but &#8212; at least in my mind &#8212; there&#39;s a certain amount of dark humor in it.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/codesorcery.net\/2008\/08\/04\/beta-beat-pukka-17\" title=\"Beta beat: Pukka 1.7\">Beta beat: Pukka 1.7<\/a>: An update to Pukka (which I use for posting most of my daily &quot;neat stuff&quot; links when I&#39;m on my home &#39;puter) to add some new features and deal with the update to Delicious (including descriptions up to 1000 characters!).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com\/bestseatinthehouse\/2008\/08\/olympics_planning_packing_and.html\" title=\"Best Seat in the House | Olympics: Planning, Packing, And Panicking.\">Best Seat in the House | Olympics: Planning, Packing, And Panicking.<\/a>: Neat rundown by the Seattle Times&#39; photographer for the Olympics of the gear he&#39;s bringing. Man, would it be fun to have some of those toys&#8230;esp. the three Nikon D3 bodies!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between August 6th and August 7th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0Olympics | You can get Games fix on TV, Web \u2022\u00a0Wash. letter carrier going full kilt ahead \u2022\u00a0Greyhound pulls &#8216;bus rage&#8217; ads \u2022\u00a0Beta beat: Pukka 1.7 \u2022\u00a0Best Seat in the House | Olympics: Planning, Packing, And Panicking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}