{"id":3980,"date":"2009-08-14T07:53:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T07:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/14\/links-for-2009-08-14\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T07:53:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T07:53:06","slug":"links-for-2009-08-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/14\/links-for-2009-08-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-08-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matt-ruff.livejournal.com\/92590.html\">A Burning Dog Needs No Chimney &#8211; White House unveils death panel<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;After a week of unconvincing denials, the Obama administration reversed course today and released photos of the &#8220;death panel&#8221; that would, under a proposed new health-care system, make decisions about &#8220;when to pull the plug on grandma&#8221;:&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/health-care\">health-care<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/pictures\">pictures<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmynovel.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/genre-specific-sales-part-4-of-8.html\">Pimp My Novel: Genre-Specific Sales, Part 4 of 8: Science Fiction<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Hard science fiction (think Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven) has been on the decline since the end of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, i.e. for about half a century at this point, so if you&#8217;re writing in this area your sales will probably be modest at best. Cyberpunk, military, and fantasy are a different story, though; from what I can tell, those genres have been on the up and up in recent months.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/pimp-novel\">pimp-novel<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2009\/08\/new-voices-sense-and-sensorability.html\">Cocktail Party Physics: NEW VOICES: sense and sensor-ability<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">I, for one, welcome our coming robot overl&#8211; I mean, chauffeurs.<\/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\/robots\">robots<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/gadgets\">gadgets<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/cocktail-party\">cocktail-party<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/40067\">Tiny device is first complete &#8216;quantum computer&#8217; &#8211; physicsworld.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Although the individual stages or groups of stages in quantum computing have been demonstrated previously, this new device is said to perform a complete set of quantum logic operations without significant amounts of information being lost in transit. As a result, the device represents an important step in the quest for a practical quantum computer, say the researchers based at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Burning Dog Needs No Chimney &#8211; White House unveils death panel &#8220;After a week of unconvincing denials, the Obama administration reversed course today and released photos of the &#8220;death panel&#8221; that would, under a proposed new health-care system, make decisions about &#8220;when to pull the plug on grandma&#8221;:&#8221; (tags: politics health-care medicine silly pictures&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/14\/links-for-2009-08-14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2009-08-14<\/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-3980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980","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=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}