{"id":1159,"date":"2007-10-24T11:40:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T15:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2007-10-24T11:40:56","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T15:40:56","slug":"small-random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"Small random thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Should we treat stupidity like spam? I quite like the idea, especially as some people are working on <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidfilter.org\/wiki\/index.php?n=Main.About\">a stupidfilter<\/a> based on spam-fighting principles. With this in place, most comments on newspaper sites would just vanish. Also, if you poke around their site, you will discover the &#8220;More&#8221; button is spelled &#8220;moar&#8221;, which is a nice touch.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/people\/obituaries\/article3075649.ece\">Fantastic obituary<\/a> in the <em>Independent<\/em> that starts: <span class=\"sane\">Sammy Duddy was a colourful Belfast character who combined membership of one of the city&#8217;s most lethal paramilitary groups with a career as &#8220;Samantha&#8221;, a highly suggestive drag act.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I know I worry too much, but the more I read about the Storm worm, the more I think I should own shares in Apple. Not that a mac will protect you from whatever it is the botnet is going to do, but a lot of people will be buying them after it is over.<\/li>\n<li>A drunken elk has been reported to the police near Borgholm, on the island of &amp;Ouml;land.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should we treat stupidity like spam? I quite like the idea, especially as some people are working on a stupidfilter based on spam-fighting principles. With this in place, most comments on newspaper sites would just vanish. Also, if you poke &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1159\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1159\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}