{"id":4405,"date":"2008-08-18T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2019-12-23T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T18:01:48","slug":"delicious-august-14th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/08\/18\/delicious-august-14th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for August 14th through August 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5350,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.king5.com\\\/video\\\/featured-index.html?nvid=273541&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.king5.com\\\/video\\\/featured-index.html?nvid=273541&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5351,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article\\\/SB121856740339434067.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130511082910\\\/http:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com:80\\\/article\\\/SB121856740339434067.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article\\\/SB121856740339434067.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5352,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/olympics.blogs.nytimes.com\\\/2008\\\/08\\\/16\\\/the-phelps-cavic-photo-finish&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/archive.nytimes.com\\\/london2012.blogs.nytimes.com&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5353,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.wired.com\\\/underwire\\\/2008\\\/08\\\/bigfoot-hunters.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/underwire\\\/2008\\\/08\\\/bigfoot-hunters.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5354,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/ronjudd\\\/2008112548_olyjudd14.html?syndication=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/ronjudd\\\/2008112548_olyjudd14.html?syndication=rss&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 14th and August 18th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/video\/featured-index.html?nvid=273541\" title=\"Sunday Morning's Lightning Storm\">Sunday Morning&#8217;s Lightning Storm<\/a>: Video from King 5 of the lightning over Auburn and Kent that woke Prairie and me up on Saturday night\/Sunday morning.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121856740339434067.html\" title=\"Now Diving: Sir Isaac Newton\">Now Diving: Sir Isaac Newton<\/a>: High-tech televisual bells and whistles have carried couch-based Olympic watching way beyond the mere reality of being here. Thousands of cameras are catching the action in China &#8212; every one of them high-definition. Yet for a feat of engineering magic that dazzles as it baffles, nothing beats the DiveCam.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/olympics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/16\/the-phelps-cavic-photo-finish\/\" title=\"The Phelps-Cavic Photo Finish [UPDATED]\">The Phelps-Cavic Photo Finish [UPDATED]<\/a>: On the one hand, we&#39;re getting tired of Phelps and the hype. On the other hand, this really was an incredible moment to watch.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/underwire\/2008\/08\/bigfoot-hunters.html\" title=\"Bigfoot Hunters Fail to Produce Creature's Corpse\">Bigfoot Hunters Fail to Produce Creature&#8217;s Corpse<\/a>: The trio now say the body is in Biscardi&#39;s possession in an &quot;undisclosed location,&quot; pending scientific tests. Biscardi named two scientists he&#39;s contacted regarding his find: Curt Nelson of the University of Minnesota, and Richard Klein, a paleontologist at Stanford University. &quot;There&#39;s also an Igor and a Dmitri coming from Russia,&quot; Biscardi said. &quot;They&#39;re very prominent in the Bigfoot world.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/ronjudd\/2008112548_olyjudd14.html?syndication=rss\" title=\"Trying to figure out the scoring of gymnastics could make you crazy\">Trying to figure out the scoring of gymnastics could make you crazy<\/a>: Here&#39;s all you need to know: A perfect &quot;10&quot; (remember Nadia?) is now a perfect 16.9 &mdash; or somewhere thereabouts; The old &quot;10&quot; standard is gone, retired, locked up and hidden away&#8230;in its place is a two-pronged scoring system which is, at least theoretically, open-ended, meaning there is no limit to what you can earn &mdash; a score that might be truly ginormous; A gymnast&#39;s &quot;A&quot; score begins at zero, you get different fractions of a point for various maneuvers, ranging from the common hair-flip\/giggle (.1) to the flaming-sword-swallowing-full-frontal-fakie-double-half-caff-three-hitch dismount (.7), and you get more fractions of points awarded for the maneuvers performed in various combinations. It&#39;s believed that the most &quot;A&quot; score points a gymnast could possibly cram into a program, given current time limits &mdash; and current points at which a gymnast&#39;s body would actually explode, or perhaps break in two &mdash; is about 7.0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between August 14th and August 18th, I thought this stuff was interesting. 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