{"id":2022,"date":"2010-10-25T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T11:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2010-12-02T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T11:04:22","slug":"bookmarks_for_october_15th_through_october_25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/bookmarks_for_october_15th_through_october_25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarks for October 15th through October 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/print\/2010\/11\/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science\/8269\">Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science<\/a> &#8211; Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors&mdash;to a striking extent&mdash;still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/806\/\">XKCD: Tech Support<\/a> &#8211; A dream shared by every reasonably tech-savvy person who&#039;s ever called tech support.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/article7027046.ece\">The genius of Dick Francis was to give readers a racing certainty<\/a> &#8211; &quot;I once wrote a review of a Dick Francis thriller without reading it. I wasn&rsquo;t going to waste a new Dick Francis on a bloody review when I had a transatlantic flight coming up, was I? So I wrote a piece saying that I knew the book was going to be good. I trusted it, and that&rsquo;s why I was saving it for later.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dyske.com\/paper\/936\">Difference Between &ldquo;Real&rdquo; Writers And &ldquo;Wannabe&rdquo; Writers<\/a> &#8211; The difference between doing something because your ego \/ self-image wants it, and doing it because it is your natural inclination, because you cannot NOT do it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science &#8211; Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors&mdash;to a striking extent&mdash;still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? XKCD: Tech Support &#8211; A dream shared by every reasonably tech-savvy person who&#039;s ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[663,75,770,662,76,666,472,338,196,343,122,471,661,339,181],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favourites_on_the_web","tag-bias","tag-bookmarks","tag-books","tag-comic","tag-delicious","tag-dick_francis","tag-funny","tag-medicine","tag-philosophy","tag-psychology","tag-science","tag-statistics","tag-support","tag-technology","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}