{"id":4148,"date":"2009-10-09T06:34:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T06:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/09\/links-for-2009-10-09\/"},"modified":"2009-10-09T06:34:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T06:34:03","slug":"links-for-2009-10-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/09\/links-for-2009-10-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-10-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/2009\/10\/08\/from-gourmet-to-the-daily-gazette\/\">From Gourmet to the Daily Gazette \u00c2\u00ab Easily Distracted<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;This is the real issue for a lot of old media. They used to be a habit, a tradition, a part of life. As such, you ignored what you didn&#8217;t use or like the same way you ignore a tear or a stain in a piece of furniture that you otherwise find comfortable and can&#8217;t afford to replace anyway. But now I think a lot of audiences have a much more active imaginative engagement with what they read, and much less patience for a publication that isn&#8217;t nimble in its response to the needs and desires of its readership. You go to old media for a kind of quality you can&#8217;t get in new media, but now we expect much more for our (relatively small) payment. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/magazines\">magazines<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/easily-distracted\">easily-distracted<\/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\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journalism\">journalism<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fafblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/q-our-threatiest-threat.html\">Fafblog! the whole world&#8217;s only source for Fafblog.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Q: Oh no! How many nuclear weapons does Iran already have?<br \/>\nA: Counting warheads, ICBMs, mid- and long-range missiles, ABMs, tactical nukes, bunker-busters and submarine-based weaponry, the full nuclear arsenal of Iran at this moment is very rapidly just beginning to quite possibly approach a number just short of one!<br \/>\nQ: That makes them almost as deadly as the rogue nation of Whoville or the Islamic Republic of Candyland!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/fafblog\">fafblog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/war\">war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/2009\/10\/lava-and-lamp.html\">Physics Buzz: Lava And The Lamp<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;When Imre J\u00c3\u00a1nosi&#8217;s teenage daughter asked him how her new lava lamp worked, she probably expected a quick explanation. But her innocent question sent J\u00c3\u00a1nosi, a physicist at Lor\u00c3\u00a1nd E\u00c3\u00b6tv\u00c3\u00b6s University in Budapest, on an experimental quest to plumb the physics of the popular novelty toy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to find something, an easy explanation for what happens inside,&#8221; J\u00c3\u00a1nosi explained. &#8220;So I started to check the web and the professional literature, and that was a real surprise. There was practically no useful information, nothing about the physics.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p><\/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\/thermo\">thermo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/materials\">materials<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics-buzz\">physics-buzz<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/2009\/07\/the-hunter-darwyn-cooke-and-donald-westlake-pull-off-the-perfect-crime-.html\">&#8216;The Hunter&#8217;: Darwyn Cooke and Donald Westlake pull off the perfect crime | Hero Complex | Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;A Nova Scotia-based illustrator named Darwyn Cooke and an San Diego book editor named Scott Dunbier persuaded the aging author that the ideal visual medium for his terse, bare-knuckled tales of mayhem was the graphic novel. And, after Westlake saw Cooke&#8217;s spare and stylized artwork (think somewhere between the vintage-cool of &#8220;Mad Men&#8221; and the storytelling flair of Milton Caniff&#8217;s &#8220;Steve Canyon&#8221; comic strips), he enthusiastically agreed. The result hit shelves last week, the 144-page graphic novel &#8220;The Hunter&#8221; (IDW Publishing, $24.99 hardcover), a meticulously faithful adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name that introduced the scowling Parker.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/comics\">comics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/intellectual-elitism-you-get-what-you.html\">Backreaction: Intellectual Elitism? You get what you give.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;That is not to say &#8220;intellectual elitism&#8221; doesn&#8217;t exist. It surely does. But it&#8217;s caused by rather than being a reason for social detachment. The &#8220;elitism&#8221; you see, hear, and frequently criticize on this blog is not more than a forward defense that is amplified by exactly that criticism. It is a difficult job to work on basic research: non-profit, a very very long-term investment of your society, a job that brings a high risk that nothing of what you do will ever be good for anything.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/backreaction\">backreaction<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Gourmet to the Daily Gazette \u00c2\u00ab Easily Distracted &#8220;This is the real issue for a lot of old media. They used to be a habit, a tradition, a part of life. As such, you ignored what you didn&#8217;t use or like the same way you ignore a tear or a stain in a piece&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/09\/links-for-2009-10-09\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2009-10-09<\/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-4148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148","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=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}