{"id":143,"date":"2010-10-13T08:56:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=143"},"modified":"2010-10-13T08:56:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:56:55","slug":"wednesday-wanderings-dadt-halted-bill-stickers-is-innocent-tiny-movie-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Wanderings (DADT Halted, Bill Stickers Is Innocent, Tiny Movie, etc.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a multitude of links to share with you today, but first I want to share happy news:\u00a0 A federal judge has ordered a halt to the military’s controversial “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy<\/a>.\u00a0 This is extra happy since I half-ranted about this bad policy yesterday.\u00a0 Now it has taken one more step towards being gone.\u00a0 I only hope the federal government chooses to not appeal this decision.<\/p>\n

Okay, now for the fun.\u00a0 Since we started with a legal thing, we’ll continue by saying we support the “Bill Stickers Is Innocent<\/a>” movement.\u00a0 Silly, but fun.\u00a0 I have seen a variation on this stating Bill Posters was innocent, too, but I am awaiting the outcome of the trial first.<\/p>\n

Going from big legal to small and fun, here is the world’s tiniest animated movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sticking with photography, here is an amusing collection of pictures of one dad’s kids<\/a>.\u00a0 Dad’s a tricky photographer, apparently.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, though, it’s the child who is an excellent photographer<\/a>.\u00a0 This link is a must-see; the girl is only three and already getting recognition for her artistic eye.<\/p>\n

Kids are amazing.\u00a0 Fox, whose news I usually find biased in the opposite direction from my own, has an article about eight and a half amazing kids<\/a>.\u00a0 Seriously, they ranked a popcorn testing up with nuclear and hazardous waste sniffing?\u00a0 Anyway, eight of the kids in the article have done amazing things.<\/p>\n

This week’s final entry in the youth category states quite simply that the floor is lava<\/a>.\u00a0 I love the artistry in this illustration of youthful imagination.<\/p>\n

Speaking of imagination, one of the more entertaining films in recent times was Wall-E<\/em>.\u00a0 And if this short bit<\/a> with the title character doesn’t make you literally laugh out loud, you should get your funny bone checked.<\/p>\n

The reason I don’t care for Fox’s usual bias is that it is very right-leaning.\u00a0 I admit, though, that I have never heard them state a point of view essentially claiming something as silly as “Yoga is ‘at odds with Christian understanding.’<\/a>”<\/p>\n

I have always favored PC’s over Macs, mostly over a simple pricing issue.\u00a0 Macs can do wonderful things, but a PC can do the same for far less.\u00a0 This illustration<\/a> is a wonderful demonstration of just how badly Apple overprices their gear.<\/p>\n

I posted this link on Monday, but I felt it was worth repeating.\u00a0 It has a naughty F word in it, but it makes an important grammatical point<\/a>.\u00a0 There should be a comma after the A in “F’in’ A”, for those who aren’t quite sure what the problem is.<\/p>\n

Finally, many of us remember Pong, which is apparently even older than previously thought<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a multitude of links to share with you today, but first I want to share happy news:\u00a0 A federal judge has ordered a halt to the military’s controversial “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy.\u00a0 This is extra happy since I half-ranted about this bad policy yesterday.\u00a0 Now it has taken one more step towards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}