{"id":332,"date":"2007-10-02T12:59:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T11:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2007-10-02T12:59:36","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T11:59:36","slug":"links-of-the-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Links of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2007\/oct\/02\/censorship\" target=\"_blank\">Online censorship hurts us all.<\/a> &#8220;Protecting&#8221; artists makes things worse, argues Cory Doctrow. <em>(Guardian<\/em>\/<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/10\/02\/my-column-on-censors.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomrafteryit.net\/monster-steals-email-addresses-and-spams-itcork-membership\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monster steals email addresses and spams it@cork membership.<\/a> (<strong>Tom Raftery<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idUSN0132635820071002?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=technologyNews\" target=\"_blank\">Walking for a good cause without ever leaving home.<\/a> Virtual walks allow raise money for charity. (<strong>Reuters<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/10\/02\/business\/skype.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ebay admits overpaying for the internet phone company Skype.<\/a> It paid $2.6bn in 2005 and is taking a $1.43bn charge relating to the deal. That&#8217;s gotta hurt! (<em>International Herald Tribune<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/B\/BRAZIL_SURROGATE_GRANDMOTHER?SITE=MATAU&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" target=\"_blank\">Woman gives birth to her own grandchildren.<\/a> Egads&#8230; (<strong>AP<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesfallows.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/news_on_the_aldura_front_israe.php\" target=\"_blank\">News on the al-Dura front: Israeli finding that it was staged.<\/a> Mohammed al-Dura was reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Doura\" target=\"_blank\">shot by the Israeli army<\/a> while his fathered tried to shield him. It seems this did not happen. (<strong>James Fallows<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/10\/02\/musharraf.protests\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Musharraf: Spy chief to lead army.<\/a> Looks like Pervy might actually step down this time. (<strong>CNN<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>And simply because I&#8217;m feeling nostalgic, here&#8217;s the theme to <em>The Secret of Monkey Island<\/em> played on electric guitar:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VM8_uyvL4sk[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I smell a look back at some classic games coming here soon. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online censorship hurts us all. &#8220;Protecting&#8221; artists makes things worse, argues Cory Doctrow. (Guardian\/Boing Boing) Monster steals email addresses and spams it@cork membership. (Tom Raftery) Walking for a good cause without ever leaving home. Virtual walks allow raise money for charity. (Reuters) Ebay admits overpaying for the internet phone company Skype. It paid $2.6bn in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,39,41,42,52,57,62,69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}