{"id":7187,"date":"2009-05-24T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T17:27:54","slug":"delicious-may-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/05\/24\/delicious-may-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for May 19th through May 24th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4105,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.agathachristie.com\\\/home-uk\\\/agatha-christie-breaks-a-third-world-record&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20101114105001\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.agathachristie.com:80\\\/home-uk\\\/agatha-christie-breaks-a-third-world-record\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 01:56:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 01:56:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4106,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\\\/cosmicvariance\\\/2009\\\/05\\\/14\\\/rules-for-time-travelers&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;:4107,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.sophos.com\\\/klingon-anti-virus&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;:4108,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/denofgeek.com\\\/movies\\\/253338\\\/star_trek_what_it_teaches_film_makers_about_special_effects.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/denofgeek.com\\\/movies\\\/253338\\\/star_trek_what_it_teaches_film_makers_about_special_effects.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4109,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/richardsmith.posterous.com&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;:4110,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/richardsmith.posterous.com\\\/dollar-redeign-michael-tyznik&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 May 19th and May 24th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agathachristie.com\/home-uk\/agatha-christie-breaks-a-third-world-record\/\" title=\"Agatha Christie:  Agatha Christie Breaks a Third World Record\">Agatha Christie:  Agatha Christie Breaks a Third World Record<\/a>: &quot;Agatha Christie has set a new world record &#8212; for the book with the thickest spine.  Measuring over a foot long, with 4,032 pages, the volume contains the complete Miss Marple stories &#8212; all 12 novels and 20 short stories. &quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/05\/14\/rules-for-time-travelers\/\" title=\"Rules for Time Travelers\">Rules for Time Travelers<\/a>: &quot;With the new Star Trek out, it&#39;s long past time (as it were) that we laid out the rules for would-be fictional time-travelers. Not that we expect these rules to be obeyed; the dramatic demands of a work of fiction will always trump the desire to get things scientifically accurate, and Star Trek all by itself has foisted half a dozen mutually-inconsistent theories of time travel on us. But time travel isn&#39;t magic; it may or may not be allowed by the laws of physics &#8212; we don&#39;t know them well enough to be sure &#8212; but we do know enough to say that if time travel were possible, certain rules would have to be obeyed. And sometimes it&#39;s more interesting to play by the rules. So if you wanted to create a fictional world involving travel through time, here are 10+1 rules by which you should try to play.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/klingon-anti-virus\/\" title=\"Klingon Anti-Virus\">Klingon Anti-Virus<\/a>: &quot;Use Sophos&#39;s Klingon Anti-Virus to quickly perform an on-demand scan and find viruses, spyware, adware, zero-day threats, Betazoid sub-ether porn diallers and Tribbles that your existing protection might have missed. The software can be run without deactivating your current anti-virus software. Phasers can be left set to stun. (This software has compatibility issues with the version of msxml4.dll used by cloaking devices on Romulan-modded D7-class battle cruisers. Installing this software on such vessels is punishable by ordeal of Ginst&#39;a&#39;Ed.)&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/denofgeek.com\/movies\/253338\/star_trek_what_it_teaches_film_makers_about_special_effects.html\" title=\"Star Trek: What It Teaches Film Makers About Special Effects\">Star Trek: What It Teaches Film Makers About Special Effects<\/a>: &quot;&#8230;of the many factors I found impressive, the one that particularly stuck out against the tide of blockbusters in recent years was that there was barely a special effect wasted. Granted, there were lots of special effects in the film, but each had a purpose in the greater scheme of things, and at no point did I get the impression that someone was playing a videogame before my eyes, or showing me what their computer could do. Coupled to the fact that there was no ridiculously over-the-top slow motion gimmickry, along with no unnecessarily confusing edits, and I left with the real impression that this was a film made by people who absolutely, top to bottom, knew what they were doing.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/richardsmith.posterous.com\/\" title=\"Dollar ReDe$Ign Project\">Dollar ReDe$Ign Project<\/a>: &quot;We need to rebuild our country, revive our economy, redesign the Dollar bill. Email us your ideas. Win a prize. In God We Trust, In Change We Believe.&quot; Some neat designs already posted if you scroll down a bit. I&#39;m particularly fond of <a href=\"http:\/\/richardsmith.posterous.com\/dollar-redeign-michael-tyznik\">this entry<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between May 19th and May 24th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0Agatha Christie:  Agatha Christie Breaks a Third World Record \u2022\u00a0Rules for Time Travelers \u2022\u00a0Klingon Anti-Virus \u2022\u00a0Star Trek: What It Teaches Film Makers About Special Effects \u2022\u00a0Dollar ReDe$Ign Project<\/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-7187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187","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=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}