{"id":4397,"date":"2008-08-12T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2020-08-13T08:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:17:58","slug":"delicious-august-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/08\/12\/delicious-august-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for August 11th through August 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5362,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/nationworld\\\/2008107536_apolychinalipsynchedsong.html?syndication=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/nationworld\\\/2008107536_apolychinalipsynchedsong.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;:5363,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/karjack.livejournal.com\\\/656327.html?format=light&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;},{&quot;id&quot;:5364,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.msnbc.msn.com\\\/id\\\/26139005&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130126025826\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.msnbc.msn.com\\\/id\\\/26139005\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 07:45:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:400}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 07:45:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:400},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5365,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/gizmodo.com\\\/5035456\\\/blue-screen-of-death-strikes-birds-nest-during-opening-ceremonies-torch-lighting&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190119155355\\\/https:\\\/\\\/gizmodo.com\\\/5035456\\\/blue-screen-of-death-strikes-birds-nest-during-opening-ceremonies-torch-lighting&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 07:45:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 07:45:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5366,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tuaw.com\\\/2008\\\/08\\\/11\\\/turn-your-change-into-apps2&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.tuaw.com\\\/iphone\\\/tips-and-tricks\\\/&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 11th and August 12th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2008107536_apolychinalipsynchedsong.html?syndication=rss\" title=\"Olympic opening uses girl's voice, not face\">Olympic opening uses girl&#8217;s voice, not face<\/a>: A 7-year-old Chinese girl was not good-looking enough for the Olympics opening ceremony, so another little girl with a pixie smile lip-synched &quot;Ode to the Motherland,&quot; a ceremony official said &#8211; the latest example of the lengths Beijing took for a perfect start to the Summer Games.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/karjack.livejournal.com\/656327.html?format=light\" title=\"Deconstructing Dr. Horrible.\">Deconstructing Dr. Horrible<\/a>: This post contains mad spoilers. I also warn that I am going to take a funny, silly, amusing show and be boringly, depressingly serious about it. If your response to these sorts of nitpicks is &#39;durr it&#39;s just a show&#39; &#8212; you&#39;re right. So don&#39;t click.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26139005\/\" title=\"Part of Olympic display altered in broadcast - Gadgets- msnbc.com\">Part of Olympic display altered in broadcast<\/a>: Part of the elaborate Olympics fireworks show broadcast to the world in the opening ceremony was altered, done digitally in 3-D computer graphics, according to several news reports. While the dramatic display [of giant footsteps &#39;walking&#39; across the city] actually happened as portrayed on television, members of the Beijing Olympic Committee said it was necessary to replace live video with computer-generated imagery because the city&rsquo;s hazy, smoggy skies made it too difficult to see, according to The Beijing Times, which first reported the story.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5035456\/blue-screen-of-death-strikes-birds-nest-during-opening-ceremonies-torch-lighting\" title=\"Olympic Fail: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting\">Olympic Fail: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird&#8217;s Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting<\/a>: Okay, so this really isn&#39;t a major thing: the BSOD was on one obscure section of the Birds Nest for less than a second and was barely visible. Still, it&#39;s good for a little bit of nerdy amusement.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2008\/08\/11\/turn-your-change-into-apps2\/\" title=\"Turn your change into apps (or music)\">Turn your change into apps (or music)<\/a>: Coinstar&#39;s change-counting machines now offer Gift Certificate options that <em>don&#39;t charge the 9% counting fee<\/em> &#8212; and one of the options is for Apple&#39;s iTunes Music Store. Dig in your couch, find those pennies, and turn &#39;em into music or iPhone\/iPod Touch applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between August 11th and August 12th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0Olympic opening uses girl&#8217;s voice, not face \u2022\u00a0Deconstructing Dr. Horrible \u2022\u00a0Part of Olympic display altered in broadcast \u2022\u00a0Olympic Fail: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird&#8217;s Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting \u2022\u00a0Turn your change into apps (or music)<\/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-4397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397","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=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}