{"id":3764,"date":"2009-06-15T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/15\/links-for-2009-06-15\/"},"modified":"2009-06-15T05:00:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T05:00:57","slug":"links-for-2009-06-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/15\/links-for-2009-06-15\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-06-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flyingflux.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/dullness-of-details.html\">Flying Flux: The Dullness of Details<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Short sentences; active voice; keep the audience in mind; draw clear diagrams; minimize jargon; use paragraphs; spell correctly; conjugate verbs; employ diacritics properly; use metric; resist idiomatic speech; avoid overusing semicolons; write in English. All very helpful tips that I&#8217;ve gathered over the years, if you want to totally ensure that no one will ever want to read what you write. I think it behooves writers to make technical documentation fun by embedding a few surprises here and there for the unsuspecting reader. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=865\">The Usefulness of Scholarship \u00c2\u00ab Easily Distracted<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;[T]ake the question, \u00e2\u0080\u009chow did Africans think about or understand colonialism? How important was it to them? What social and political developments in African societies were primarily a response to or critique of colonial authority?\u00e2\u0080\u009d It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s a question that runs across the whole of modern Africanist historiography, but good luck just searching for compressed, focused treatments of it using either web-wide or authoritative catalogs. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/humanities\">humanities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/information\">information<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/easily-distracted\">easily-distracted<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/how-china-blocks-the-letter-f\/\">\u00e2\u0080\u00a6My heart\u00e2\u0080\u0099s in Accra \u00c2\u00bb How China blocks the letter \u00e2\u0080\u009cF\u00e2\u0080\u009d<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;My friend and colleague Hal Roberts is one of the internet\u00e2\u0080\u0099s top censorship and filtering researchers. When Chinese authorities announced that a client-based piece of filtering software called GreenDam would be required for installation on new PCs, Hal downloaded the software and spent a good chunk of this week trying to understand how it works. He and colleagues released a report earlier today that demonstrates that GreenDam is incredibly ambitious and invasive to user privacy, but also badly broken and virtually unusable.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the best demonstration of this fact is the video Hal put together earlier today and posted on his blog. It shows GreenDam slowly realizing that it wants to block a Falun Gong site\u00e2\u0080\u00a6 then blocking any other sites that begin with the letter \u00e2\u0080\u009cf\u00e2\u0080\u009d, due to the way Internet Explorer handles autocompletion and GreenDam blocks content.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/zuckerman\">zuckerman<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_06\/018608.php\">The Washington Monthly<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;In contrast [to the tv news networks], note that print reporters (newspapers, wire services, magazines, and center-left blogs) had fantastic coverage of Iranian developments throughout the day and night. I&#8217;ve found the New York Times&#8217; coverage to be especially strong.<\/p>\n<p>The wrong part of the media industry is in trouble.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/media\">media<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journalism\">journalism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dotphys.net\/2009\/06\/more-examples-of-weightlessness\/\">Why do you get pushed up in a free fall room? | Dot Physics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;It is indeed true that you would be \u00e2\u0080\u009clifted\u00e2\u0080\u009d out of your seats [on the Tower of Terror ride], but I am not sure this is what you would expect. If the elevator is free falling, wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t you just float in your seat but not be lifted up?&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/games\">games<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dot-physics\">dot-physics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.figarospeech.com\/teach-a-kid-to-argue\/\">Figures of Speech &#8211; Teach a Kid to Argue<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Those of you who don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t have perfect children will find this familiar: Just as I was withdrawing money in a bank lobby, my 5-year-old daughter chose to throw a temper tantrum, screaming and writhing on the floor while a couple of elderly ladies looked on in disgust. (Their children, apparently, had been perfect.) I gave Dorothy a disappointed look and said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThat argument won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t work, sweetheart. It isn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t pathetic enough.\u00e2\u0080\u009d&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/psychology\">psychology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/language\">language<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/philosophy\">philosophy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/humanities\">humanities<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Flux: The Dullness of Details &quot;Short sentences; active voice; keep the audience in mind; draw clear diagrams; minimize jargon; use paragraphs; spell correctly; conjugate verbs; employ diacritics properly; use metric; resist idiomatic speech; avoid overusing semicolons; write in English. 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