{"id":4579,"date":"2008-09-24T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:12:31","slug":"delicious-september-23rd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/24\/delicious-september-23rd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for September 23rd through September 24th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between September 23rd and September 24th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/23\/toms-essay\/index.html\" title=\"Tom's Essay\">Tom&#8217;s Essay<\/a>: Suzanne Vega tells the curious legend of &ldquo;Tom&rsquo;s Diner&rdquo; &mdash; how an a capella ditty became a hit single and, eventually, a key component in the development of the MP3.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.about.com\/b\/2008\/09\/24\/ten-ways-to-celebrate-national-punctuation-day.htm\" title=\"Ten Ways to Celebrate National Punctuation Day\">Ten Ways to Celebrate National Punctuation Day<\/a>: I&#39;m sure I don&#39;t have to tell you that September 24 is National Punctuation Day. For weeks we&#39;ve been gathering dashes, calling up old commas, and hiding gaily wrapped colons where (we think) the kids can&#39;t find them. So now that we&#39;ve hung all those apostrophes with care, let&#39;s kick out the stops and celebrate! <em>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gothamistllc.com\/click.phdo?i=d5ec8d3cc8ae9c40806361d32eec4f05\">Seattlest<\/a>)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/entertainment\/2008199530_webvh1rap24.html?syndication=rss\" title=\"VH1 crowns Public Enemy's &quot;Fight the Power&quot; No. 1 of 100 greatest hip-hop songs\">VH1 crowns Public Enemy&#8217;s &#8220;Fight the Power&#8221; No. 1 of 100 greatest hip-hop songs<\/a>: At No. 2 is the Sugar Hill Gang&#39;s groundbreaking song, &quot;Rapper&#39;s Delight,&quot; followed by Dr. Dre&#39;s &quot;Nuthin but a &#39;G&#39; Thang&quot; at No. 3. Run-D.M.C.&#39;s &quot;Walk This Way&quot; with Aerosmith and Grandmaster Flash &amp; the Furious Five&#39;s &quot;The Message&quot; round out the top five.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/380325_rossisuit24.html?source=rss\" title=\"Democrats sue to keep Rossi a Republican\">Democrats sue to keep Rossi a Republican<\/a>: Rossi&#39;s listing his party as &quot;prefers GOP&quot; instead of &quot;Republican&quot;, leading to confusion among voters who don&#39;t know the GOP nickname &#8212; enough confusion for a six-point jump in polls for &quot;GOP Rossi&quot; over &quot;Republican Rossi&quot;. He&#39;s a shmuck <em>and<\/em> a Republican, this is a dirty, underhanded trick, and I hope he doesn&#39;t get away with it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080923-study-confirms-users-are-idiots.html\" title=\"Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots\">Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots<\/a>: &#8230;the students seemed to find any dialog box a distraction from their assigned task; nearly half said that all they cared about was getting rid of these dialogs. The results suggest that a familiarity with Windows dialogs have bred a degree of contempt and that users simply don&#39;t care what the boxes say anymore. <em>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.slashdot.org\/~r\/Slashdot\/slashdot\/~3\/ma9VVI86DwE\/article.pl\">Slashdot<\/a>)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between September 23rd and September 24th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579"}],"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=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}