{"id":362,"date":"2009-08-17T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T11:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-08-17T12:01:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T11:01:49","slug":"daily-links-17th-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Daily links: 17th August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usual weekday links.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Elements\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elementsthegame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elements<\/a> &#8211; warning: do not open this if you have a history of spending too much time playing Magic.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BBC\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/8203091.stm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;James my mate  fancies u x&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; one hell of an anti-texting\/driving advert.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ControlPad\" href=\"http:\/\/sector-seven.net\/software\/controlpad\" target=\"_blank\">ControlPad<\/a> &#8211; windows application that allows you to launch stuff from the numberpad. Quite useful, especially as you can send a number of commands at once.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Scientific American\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=defining-evil\" target=\"_blank\">Creating a being of pure evil<\/a> &#8211; sometimes, I wish scientists had to watch a number of films relating to their area and were asked <strong>not<\/strong> to follow the plots in everyday life.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Burning Man\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.burningman.com\/?p=4599\" target=\"_blank\">Burning Man and rights<\/a> &#8211; Burning Man have a license for photographers that restricts their rights to their photographs, but it&#8217;s well reasoned out as to why. Read the link to see how.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Root Bridges\" href=\"http:\/\/rootbridges.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Root Bridges in India<\/a> &#8211; how some areas on India have 500 living bridges. Amazing photos.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"World Shipping\" href=\"http:\/\/download.hellenicshippingnews.com\/img\/all_google_map.html\" target=\"_blank\">World Shipping Map<\/a> &#8211; reminded of this by the piracy episode with the Russian ship. Strangely fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usual weekday links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[141],"tags":[207,208,209,160,210,864,211,212,213],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-automation","tag-burning-man","tag-driving","tag-games","tag-india","tag-links","tag-magic","tag-photos","tag-texting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAkBY-5Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":288,"url":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=288","url_meta":{"origin":362,"position":0},"title":"Daily links: 10th August 2009","author":"MattWPBS","date":"August 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Round up of a few links. 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