{"id":7640,"date":"2009-08-11T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T02:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=7640"},"modified":"2020-08-13T08:19:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:19:13","slug":"delicious-august-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/08\/11\/delicious-august-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for August 9th through August 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between August 9th and August 11th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.secularhumanism.org\/index.php?section=library&amp;page=haught_29_5\" title=\"A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush\">A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush<\/a>: &quot;Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible&rsquo;s satanic agents of the Apocalypse. Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their &#39;common faith&#39; (Christianity) and told him: &#39;Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East&#8230;. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled&#8230;. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people&#39;s enemies before a New Age begins.&#39;&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mossblog.allthingsd.com\/20090804\/deciphering-windows-7-upgrades-the-official-chart\/\" title=\"Deciphering Windows 7 Upgrades: The Official Chart\">Deciphering Windows 7 Upgrades: The Official Chart<\/a>: Wow &#8212; this is horrendous. It&#39;s a total mess, and this chart only covers three of the six possible versions of Windows 7. I&#39;m not even going to bother trying to upgrade our laptop: Vista&#39;s functional, and I don&#39;t want to deal with the upgrade hassle. Compare this to the Mac OS X upgrade path to the upcoming 10.6\/Snow Leopard: there is <em>one<\/em> version of 10.6, which sells for $29. It will install on any Intel-based Mac. The install\/upgrade process will automatically transfer over all your applications and settings. And that&#39;s all you need to know.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/coca-cola_vs_pepsi_revised_edition.php\" title=\"Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi, Revised Edition\">Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi, Revised Edition<\/a>: &quot;Technically, the Coca-Cola logo as it exists today can not be replicated with the tools of 1887 which, by the way, is the year the script logo was introduced. Not 1885. Coca-Cola was first served in 1886 and even then, the first official logo of Coca-Cola was not the script logo. It first appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution in 1886 as both a slab serif and chunky sans serif &#8212; it wasn&#39;t until mid-1887 that Frank Robinson, Coca-Cola&#39;s bookkeeper, drew the first traces of the Spencerian script logo that we all know.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereiwrite.org\/index.php\" title=\"Where I Write: Fantasy and Science Fiction Authors in Their Creative Spaces\">Where I Write: Fantasy and Science Fiction Authors in Their Creative Spaces<\/a>: &quot;I spend a lot of time thinking about people&#39;s environments &#8212; the places they build around themselves, the things they choose to live with. Is there a connection, I started to wonder if there was a connection between the places that writers work and their work itself. Why not find out?&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wellknowwhenwegetthere.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/sincerely-john-hughes.html\" title=\"We'll Know When We Get There: Sincerely, John Hughes\">We&#8217;ll Know When We Get There: Sincerely, John Hughes<\/a>: &quot;You&#39;ve already received more letters from me than any living relative of mine has received to date. Truly, hope all is well with you and high school isn&#39;t as painful as I portray it. Believe in yourself. Think about the future once a day and keep doing what you&#39;re doing. Because I&#39;m impressed. My regards to the family. Don&#39;t let a day pass without a kind thought about them.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between August 9th and August 11th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush \u2022\u00a0Deciphering Windows 7 Upgrades: The Official Chart \u2022\u00a0Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi, Revised Edition \u2022\u00a0Where I Write: Fantasy and Science Fiction Authors in Their Creative Spaces \u2022\u00a0We&#8217;ll Know When We Get There: Sincerely, John Hughes<\/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\/7640"}],"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=7640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}