{"id":1194,"date":"2007-03-04T12:29:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T12:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/04\/for-the-hoops-haters\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T12:29:02","slug":"for-the-hoops-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/04\/for-the-hoops-haters\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Hoops Haters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s officially March, which means my basketball obsession kicks into high gear. As if you hadn&#8217;t noticed from the last  week or so of posts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s clear from the lack of comments that my basketball obsession is not that widely shared, so here are some links to amuse the rest of you while I go hoops-wacky:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/articles\/world\/20\/3\">March <cite>Physics World<\/cite><\/a> is out, featuring a <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/articles\/world\/20\/3\/4\/1\">very nice article on commerical quantum cryptography<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/articles\/review\/20\/3\/3\/1\">blog profile of Tommaso Dorigo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of quantum stuff, <a href=\"http:\/\/scottaaronson.com\/blog\/?p=208\">Scott Aaronson explains Shor&#8217;s algorithm<\/a>, with not a single state vector to be seen.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve been saying to yourself &#8220;You know, what the world needs is more weblogs featuring highly technical discussions of particle theory,&#8221; then <a href=\"http:\/\/resonaances.blogspot.com\/\">Resonaances<\/a> is a dream come true.<\/li>\n<li>In the &#8220;There&#8217;s a carnival for everything&#8221; file: the <a href=\"http:\/\/propterdoc.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/second-carnival-of-whats-up-postdoc.html\">carnival of post-docs<\/a>, Oscar style.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;d like some rabble-rousing politics, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/home-entertainment\/putting-our-money-where-our-mouths-are-boycott-the-riaa-in-march-239281.php\">Gizmodo is calling for a boycott of the RIAA<\/a>. If you think it will help, by all means, boycott the RIAA.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.methodsreporter.com\/2007\/02\/27\/826chi-boring-store-eggers\/1\/\">The Boring Store<\/a>, profiled in great detail. With pictures.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, Overheard in New York <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overheardinnewyork.com\/archives\/009281.html\">explains the whole Pluto thing<\/a>. I wish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There. That ought to hold you for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s officially March, which means my basketball obsession kicks into high gear. As if you hadn&#8217;t noticed from the last week or so of posts&#8230; Anyway, it&#8217;s clear from the lack of comments that my basketball obsession is not that widely shared, so here are some links to amuse the rest of you while I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/04\/for-the-hoops-haters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For the Hoops Haters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}