{"id":6089,"date":"2011-02-23T18:30:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T23:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6089"},"modified":"2011-02-23T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T21:15:56","slug":"wednesday-various-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6089","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/02\/what-its-like-to-work-for-donald-rumsfeld\/71521\/\">What It&#8217;s Like to Work for Donald Rumsfeld<\/a>. You really do expect him to close with, &#8220;And has everybody signed Debbie&#8217;s birthday card? Invade Iraq and then ice cream cake in the break room at three!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/splitsider.com\/2011\/01\/why-nielsen-ratings-are-inaccurate-and-why-theyll-stay-that-way\/\">Why Nielsen Ratings Are Inaccurate, and Why They&#8217;ll Stay That Way<\/a>. Frankly, it&#8217;s amazing <i>any<\/i> television of quality gets made, ever. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2279935\/pagenum\/all\">Tyranny of the Alphabet<\/a>. All these years, my last name beginning with C, and I was apparently the unknowing beneficiary of reverse-alphabetism. This is sort of similar to something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiolab.org\/2010\/oct\/15\/singled-out\/\">Malcolm Gladwell has suggested<\/a>, namely that being born <i>after<\/i> the first three months of the year significantly limits your success in life. Gosh, three letters into the alphabet, only three months into the year &#8212; I should be President by now!\n<p>Though seriously, those of you with last names further along down the chain of letters than me: did it affect you in school, or your current psychological outlook? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Malcolm Gladwell, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com\/\">the Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator<\/a>. (Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/863\/\">this xkcd comic<\/a>. The rollover text is particularly amusing.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iamdanw.com\/made\/whenshouldivisit\/\">When Should I Visit?<\/a> It&#8217;s the reverse-Foursquare, finding the least busy times to visit museums, galleries, theaters, etc. By the site&#8217;s own admission, it&#8217;s only somewhat accurate, pulling data <i>only<\/i> from Foursquare users, and exclusive to London. But I am amused by the idea of &#8220;use[ing] Foursquare to learn how to avoid Foursquare users.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What It&#8217;s Like to Work for Donald Rumsfeld. You really do expect him to close with, &#8220;And has everybody signed Debbie&#8217;s birthday card? Invade Iraq and then ice cream cake in the break room at three!&#8221; Why Nielsen Ratings Are Inaccurate, and Why They&#8217;ll Stay That Way. Frankly, it&#8217;s amazing any television of quality gets &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6089\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,27,28,6,38,17,10,52,12],"class_list":["post-6089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-internet","tag-personal","tag-politics","tag-science","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-work","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}