{"id":577,"date":"2006-06-08T00:15:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T04:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/08\/quickies\/"},"modified":"2006-06-08T08:26:57","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T12:26:57","slug":"quickies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/quickies\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Darwin strikes again: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2006-06\/03\/content_607755.htm\">Kung fu fan tries to stop train.<\/a> I swear I am totally going to learn how to pronounce &#8220;Xianglongshibazhang!&#8221;, and I am totally going to yell it out whenever I see someone being <strong>unutterably<\/strong> stupid.<\/li>\n<li>Ha-ha: <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/06\/06\/primaries.roundup.ap\/index.html\">Roy Moore Loses<\/a>. Not a judge anymore, not a governor either. Apparently even in Alabama there&#8217;s some people who can&#8217;t get behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ten_Commandments\">Ten Commandments<\/a>. Me, I can get behind &#8220;no killing&#8221;, &#8220;no stealing&#8221;, &#8220;no adultery&#8221;, and &#8220;no false witness&#8221;, and I can understand why it might be a good thing to get behind &#8220;honouring your parents&#8221; although I have a lot of trouble with it. The rest give me varying amounts of trouble.<\/li>\n<li>Wasn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0,,1791828,00.html\">this story<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102482\/\">bad movie<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000112\/\">Pierce Brosnan<\/a> back in the early 90s? Except back then, forensic science was taught at college, not a high school, of course.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca\/hac\/index.html\">Excellent reference for cypherpunks-in-training<\/a>. Free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Darwin strikes again: Kung fu fan tries to stop train. I swear I am totally going to learn how to pronounce &#8220;Xianglongshibazhang!&#8221;, and I am totally going to yell it out whenever I see someone being unutterably stupid. Ha-ha: Roy Moore Loses. Not a judge anymore, not a governor either. Apparently even in Alabama there&#8217;s some people who can&#8217;t get&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/quickies\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-explodes","category-linkapalooza","category-political","category-technology","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5UQvw-quickies","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}