{"id":628,"date":"2009-06-29T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2009-06-29T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T10:53:06","slug":"biweekly-links-for-06292009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-06292009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 06\/29\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/28\/health\/research\/28cancer.html?_r=1\">Grant System Leads Cancer Researchers to Play It Safe &#8211; Series &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rjlipton.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/28\/kolata-on-funding-research\/\">Kolata on Funding Research \u00c2\u00ab G\u00c3\u00b6del\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lost Letter and P=NP<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pentadecathlon.com\/lifeNews\/index.php\">Game of Life News<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A blog containing news about the cellular automata Life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonkatz.wordpress.com\/\">Random bits<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Jon Katz&#8217;s crypto blog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/8120324.stm\">BBC NEWS | Technology | Web slows after Jackson&#8217;s death<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>One of their subheaders reads, in total: &#8220;Fail&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/I,_Pencil\">I, Pencil &#8211; Wikisource<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe, a claim I shall attempt to prove. [&#8230;] I have a profound lesson to teach. And I can teach this lesson better than can an automobile or an airplane or a mechanical dishwasher because\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwell, because I am seemingly so simple.\n<p>Simple? Yet, not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me. This sounds fantastic, doesn&#8217;t it? Especially when it is realized that there are about one and one-half billion of my kind produced in the U. S. A. each year.<\/p>\n<p>Pick me up and look me over. What do you see? Not much meets the eye\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some wood, lacquer, the printed labeling, graphite lead, a bit of metal, and an eraser.<\/p>\n<p>Just as you cannot trace your family tree back very far, so is it impossible for me to name and explain all my antecedents. But I would like to suggest enough of them to impress upon you the richness and complexity of my background.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kalman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/25\/time-wastes-too-fast\/\">Time Wastes Too Fast &#8211; And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/nielsen\/\">here<\/a> for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant System Leads Cancer Researchers to Play It Safe &#8211; Series &#8211; NYTimes.com Kolata on Funding Research \u00c2\u00ab G\u00c3\u00b6del\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lost Letter and P=NP Game of Life News A blog containing news about the cellular automata Life. Random bits Jon Katz&#8217;s crypto blog. BBC NEWS | Technology | Web slows after Jackson&#8217;s death One of their&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-06292009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 06\/29\/2009<\/span><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}