{"id":5146,"date":"2010-10-28T06:53:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T06:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/28\/links-for-2010-10-28\/"},"modified":"2010-10-28T06:53:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T06:53:59","slug":"links-for-2010-10-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/28\/links-for-2010-10-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-10-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2272478\/pagenum\/all\/\">Take better photos of friends and family: Turn off your flash. &#8211; By Steven I. Weiss &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The flash didn&#8217;t go off&#8221; has been shorthand for photographic failure for more than 100 years, but the conventional wisdom on lighting is now being challenged by advances in camera technology. The quickest, simplest, cheapest way to take more professional-looking pictures of your friends and family is to stop using your digital camera&#8217;s built-in flash.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/pictures\">pictures<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/gadgets\">gadgets<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/slate\">slate<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/optics\">optics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2010\/10\/the-hard-edge-of-empire.html\">The hard edge of empire &#8211; Charlie&#8217;s Diary<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;We know about the real world of the era steampunk is riffing off. And the picture is not good. If the past is another country, you really wouldn&#8217;t want to emigrate there. Life was mostly unpleasant, brutish, and short; the legal status of women in the UK or US was lower than it is in Iran today: politics was by any modern standard horribly corrupt and dominated by authoritarian psychopaths and inbred hereditary aristocrats: it was a priest-ridden era that had barely climbed out of the age of witch-burning, and bigotry and discrimination were ever popular sports: for most of the population starvation was an ever-present threat. I could continue at length. It&#8217;s the world that bequeathed us the adjective &#8220;Dickensian&#8221;, that gave us a fully worked example of the evils of a libertarian minarchist state, and that provoked Marx to write his great consolatory fantasy epic, The Communist Manifesto.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/race\">race<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/gender\">gender<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/blogs\/citydesk\/2010\/10\/26\/washington-city-paper-staff-memo-on-stewartcolbert-rallies\/\">City Paper Staff Memo on Jon Stewart\/Stephen Colbert Rallies &#8211; City Desk &#8211; Washington City Paper<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;After significant consultation with Washington City Paper&#8217;s expensive outside team of professional ethicists, we&#8217;ve settled on the following guidelines. Please read and follow them closely:<\/p>\n<p>   1. You may attend the rallies in a non-participatory fashion.<br \/>\n   2. However, because the rallies are comic events, you may not laugh.<br \/>\n   3. The act of not laughing, though, can be just as politically loaded as the act of laughing. Therefore, staffers are advised to politely chuckle, in a non-genuine manner, after each joke.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/ethics\">ethics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/journalism\">journalism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/comedy\">comedy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/media\">media<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take better photos of friends and family: Turn off your flash. &#8211; By Steven I. Weiss &#8211; Slate Magazine &#8220;The flash didn&#8217;t go off&#8221; has been shorthand for photographic failure for more than 100 years, but the conventional wisdom on lighting is now being challenged by advances in camera technology. 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