{"id":4805,"date":"2008-10-16T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:17:07","slug":"delicious-october-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/16\/delicious-october-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for October 16th from 06:40 to 16:05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between 06:40 and 16:05, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/cartoonlounge\/2008\/10\/cartoonoff-xkcd.html\" title=\"Cartoon-off: The New Yorker vs. XKCD\">Cartoon-off: The New Yorker vs. XKCD<\/a>: The Rules&mdash;each contender is to draw: The Internet, as envisioned by the elderly; String Theory; 1999; Your favorite animal eating your favorite food.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/hendrikhertzberg\/2008\/10\/voter-fraud-fra.html\" title=\"Voter Fraud Fraud\">Voter Fraud Fraud<\/a>: The idea that Democrats try to win elections by arranging for hordes of nonexistent people with improbable names to vote for them has long been a favorite theme of Rove-era Republicans. Now it&rsquo;s become a desperate obsession.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mkweb.bcgsc.ca\/debates\/\" title=\"Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates - Who's the Windbag?\">Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates &#8211; Who&#8217;s the Windbag?<\/a>: 1 minute summary Speech structural parameters of candidates fall within very narrow tolerances, suggesting high degree of wordsmithing and rehearsal. For example, noun\/verb\/adjective\/adverb ratio is nearly identical, as is unique word count and noun phrase profile. Speech of Presidential candidates is more complex and less repetitive than that of their Vice-Presidential counterparts. Biden is the most repetitive speaker. The Obama\/McCain debates began with balanced performance from both candidates but end with Obama verbally overpowering McCain with overwhelming superiority in concepts delivered.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/27207215\" title=\"'Joe the Plumber' says he has no plumbing license\">&#8216;Joe the Plumber&#8217; says he has no plumbing license<\/a>: Wurzelbacher said he was surprised that his name was mentioned so many other times. &quot;That bothered me. I wished that they had talked more about issues that are important to Americans,&quot; he told reporters gathered outside his home.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Content?oid=698013\" title=\"The Stranger Election Control Board Endorsements\">The Stranger Election Control Board Endorsements<\/a>: Poorly formatted (a number of missing headers, so there&#39;s no indication of when they stop talking about one issue and start with another), vulgar, occasionally offensive, and with mildly NSFW ads&#8230;but that&#39;s The Stranger for you. Here&#39;s their recommendations for this year&#39;s election. Also available: a quick and simple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/extras\/pdf\/StrangerCheatSheetNov42008.pdf\">cheat sheet .pdf<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between 06:40 and 16:05, 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\/4805"}],"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=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}