{"id":40,"date":"2007-08-04T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/08\/04\/bits-and-bobs\/"},"modified":"2007-08-04T01:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T01:56:00","slug":"bits-and-bobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/08\/04\/bits-and-bobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and Bobs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">&#8230;a suitably lazy Friday post.<\/p>\n<p>1) <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/endogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/michael-behe-please-allow-me-to.html\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">ERV<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunclipse.org\/?p=218\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Colbert<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\"> take down Michael Behe.<\/p>\n<p>Our chief weapon is reason, reason and mockery.<br \/>Our two chief weapons are reason, mockery, and empirical evidence.<br \/>Amongst our weaponry are such things as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2) Another <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/6926703.stm\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">reason<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\"> why orangutans are the world&#8217;s coolest animal.<\/p>\n<p>I have very mixed feelings about zoos, especially the ones that keep great apes. But I just love to see these fantastic animals up close. I&#8217;ll have to make sure I get to their natural habitat before they&#8217;re all gone.<\/p>\n<p>3) A <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmarlatt.com\/canada\/symbols_facts&amp;lists\/august_holiday.html#british_columbia\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">long weekend<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">! The first one I haven&#8217;t worked since Thanksgiving! (That&#8217;s October in Canada).<\/p>\n<p>Time to go to the pub.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:verdana\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Update: here&#8217;s the original <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.current-biology.com\/content\/article\/abstract?uid=PIIS0960982207016405\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Orangutan paper <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">in <em>Current Biology.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a suitably lazy Friday post. 1) ERV and Colbert take down Michael Behe. Our chief weapon is reason, reason and mockery.Our two chief weapons are reason, mockery, and empirical evidence.Amongst our weaponry are such things as&#8230; 2) Another reason why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/08\/04\/bits-and-bobs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,15,10,32,19,34,25,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apes","category-creationism","category-evolution","category-nature","category-personal","category-primate-party","category-silliness","category-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}