{"id":4832,"date":"2012-01-20T09:14:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T14:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2012-01-20T09:14:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T14:14:36","slug":"things-heard-e204v5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4832","title":{"rendered":"Things Heard: e204v5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It&#8217;s all\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2012\/01\/20\/taking-pictures-of-pictures-through-drops-of-water\/\" target=\"_blank\">about focus<\/a> &#8230; whaddya think\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2012\/01\/19\/sculpture-looks-like-a-massive-line-drawing-of-a-piece-of-paper-on-the-sky\/\" target=\"_blank\">of this art piece<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t read them all yet, but I agree, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/branemrys.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/2012-edge-question.html\" target=\"_blank\">disappointing set of answers<\/a>. &#8220;Action as a principle&#8221; is the best one I saw in a quick scan of replies.<\/li>\n<li>Build a better battery and the world will beat that path to your door. How about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/01\/20\/037236\/faster-than-fast-fourier-transform\" target=\"_blank\">a better FFT<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Stimulus\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/timpanogos.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/20\/stimulus-spending-texans-remember-how-the-ccc-helped-save-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\">then<\/a> &#8230; and now on account of decades of environmental activism and barriers to construction &#8230; that wouldn&#8217;t be possible so stimulus today amounted mostly to repaving roads that didn&#8217;t need it yet. Now there&#8217;s a legacy for which Mr Obama must be very proud.<\/li>\n<li>In praise of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/2012\/01\/in-praise-of-evelyn-hooker\" target=\"_blank\">really bad science<\/a>, and perhaps praise is deserved.<\/li>\n<li>A partial defense\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gregmankiw.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/on-sopa.html\" target=\"_blank\">of SOPA\/PIPA<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>On those who think Mr Tebow\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/religion-faith18011812\/religion-faith18011812\/#.TxcyFN9ZuJk.facebook\" target=\"_blank\">prays for victory<\/a> (haven&#8217;t apparently noticed he thanks God when he loses).<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s unclear\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0112\/71674.html\" target=\"_blank\">what they fear<\/a>, that these two\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/noel-sheppard\/2012\/01\/19\/will-media-report-bain-capital-contributes-more-democrats-republicans\" target=\"_blank\">Democrat majority<\/a> companies might be compared?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2012\/01\/19\/article-in-high-school-newspaper-criticizing-homosexuality-bullying\/\" target=\"_blank\">Not that&#8217;s educational<\/a>, let&#8217;s have a debate &#8230; and then in the aftermath one side is termed &#8220;a bully&#8221; for merely participating.<\/li>\n<li>Losing our edge,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/01\/19\/1955241\/us-losing-rd-dominance-to-asia\" target=\"_blank\">evidence here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Drones\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/richardfernandez\/2012\/01\/19\/i-saw-the-sign\/\" target=\"_blank\">in combat<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2012\/01\/19\/watch-as-a-motorcycle-rides-on-top-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zoom<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Apparently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/its-official-republicans-are-one.html\" target=\"_blank\">every statement made by the DNC<\/a> is &#8220;officially doctrine&#8221; for every Democrat.<\/li>\n<li>History\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/archives\/27446.html\" target=\"_blank\">and 4 bits<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. It&#8217;s all\u00a0about focus &#8230; whaddya think\u00a0of this art piece? I haven&#8217;t read them all yet, but I agree, a\u00a0disappointing set of answers. &#8220;Action as a principle&#8221; is the best one I saw in a quick scan of replies. Build a better battery and the world will beat that path to your door. How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}