{"id":13553,"date":"2010-06-30T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/06\/30\/2010-mid-year-link-clearance\/"},"modified":"2010-06-30T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T07:00:01","slug":"2010-mid-year-link-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100630-01\/?p=13553","title":{"rendered":"2010 mid-year link clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Another round of the semi-annual link clearance. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/james-iry.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html\">     A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qa4Xn0mOdJ4\">     If real life operated like MMORPGs<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notfoolinganybody.com\/\">     Not fooling anybody<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/09\/01\/9889625.aspx\">     Walt Mosspuppet<\/a>     <a href=\"http:\/\/mosspuppet.com\/\">     has a blog<\/a>! <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.ebaumsworld.com\/showpost.php?p=3203257&amp;postcount=6\">     No, there is an elephant in the way<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maephim.com\/services.asp\">     A hidden hole-in-the-wall restaurant in downtown Seattle<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     Teller (of Penn and Teller)     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nrn\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nrn2473.html\">     co-authors a paper on the neuroscience of magic<\/a>.     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/magazine\/17-05\/ff_neuroscienceofmagic\">     Video<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pecha-kucha.org\/presentations\/200\">Please, this is science. I&#8217;m trying to do science here.     It&#8217;s very hard<\/a>.&#8221;     Zoologist Mike Dickison     draws upon his PhD in large flightless birds     to research and present     <i>Paedomorphic flightlessness and taxonomic affinities of     an enormous Recent bird<\/i>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explodingrabbit.com\/\">     Jay Pavlina<\/a>,     the developer of the video game Super Mario Bros. Crossover,     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explodingrabbit.com\/videos\/super-mario-bros-crossover-playing-my-own-game-1\">     plays his own game<\/a>     (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.explodingrabbit.com\/videos\/super-mario-bros-crossover-playing-my-own-game-2\">Part 2<\/a>).     The language is NSFW, but that&#8217;s what makes it funny. <\/li>\n<li>     More photos of cities at night,     this time     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/03\/nyc_and_las_vegas_from_above_a.html\">     New York City and Las Vegas<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cliburn.tv\/client.aspx\">     Watch the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition<\/a>.     They even recorded the rehearsals.     Spoiler:     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=105028043\">     It ended in a tie<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2008696955_thanks02.html\">     When was the last time you said, &#8220;You&#8217;re welcome&#8221;<\/a>? <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/sarcasticgamer.com\/\">     Sarcastic Gamer<\/a>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0USn7eufXps\">     parodies the Microsoft Future Vision video<\/a>.     &#8220;Kind of like an iPhone,     but with an extra piece that you can lose sometimes.&#8221;     Bonus video:     Drunk Gamers presents     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tlc1hAlLXcA\">     The Mac Gamer<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/10\/15\/9000185.aspx\">     My fascination with the phenomenon of hoarding<\/a>     continues with     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=126386317\">     this interview with the authors<\/a>     of     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/015101423X?tag=tholneth-20\">     <i>Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things<\/i><\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     Foreign-language Microsoft marketing video:     I don&#8217;t understand French, but it appears to me that the gist     of the campaign is     &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/video.fr.msn.com\/watch\/video\/nouvelle-campagne-windows-live-messenger\/1433xksfp\">use Windows Live Messenger and girls will pillow-fight     in their underwear<\/a>.&#8221;     (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/02\/01\/9956103.aspx\">Previous featured foreign-language Microsoft marketing video<\/a>,     for which I was completely unable to come up with a marketing message.) <\/li>\n<li>     The     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/ntdebugging\/\">     NT Debugging blog<\/a>     would like me to direct your attention to     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/ntdebugging\/archive\/2010\/06\/28\/we-are-hiring-windows-server-escalation-engineer-positions.aspx\">     two open positions for people who aren&#8217;t afraid of     thinking on their feet and     debugging complex problems<\/a>.     And not just any old complex problems,     but often complex problems with high visibility.     I would link to them more, but then I&#8217;d just link     to pretty much everything they wrote&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>     The     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoftincentives.com\/\">     Microsoft Incentives<\/a> site aggregates the various     discounts and purchase incentives being offered by Microsoft.     It primarily targets organizational purchases, but there&#8217;s     some consumer stuff buried in there. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> And, as always, the obligatory plug for my column in <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/\"> TechNet Magazine<\/a>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/ee914604.aspx\">     What Happened to the File Types Dialog?<\/a>     I found it interesting that     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/10\/25\/5658731.aspx#5681686\">     Nick<\/a> laments the loss of a dialog box that didn&#8217;t even work,     not even at the time it was introduced in Windows&nbsp;95! <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/ff394358.aspx\">     Evolution of the File Property Timestamp<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/ff458339.aspx\">     A Look at the Evolution of Shut Down on the Start Menu<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/ff625273.aspx\">     A Trip Down Memory Lane with EmulateHeap<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/ff677561.aspx\">     The Third Rail of Keyboard Shortcuts<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/ff758667.aspx\">     What happened to the Fast Items on my Start menu?<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Starting in June 2010, TechNet Magazine publishes each issue in two stages, and my column appears in the second half of the month, so don&#8217;t freak out when you don&#8217;t see it  when a new issue first comes out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another round of the semi-annual link clearance. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages If real life operated like MMORPGs. Not fooling anybody. Walt Mosspuppet has a blog! No, there is an elephant in the way. A hidden hole-in-the-wall restaurant in downtown Seattle. Teller (of Penn and Teller) co-authors a paper on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-13553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Another round of the semi-annual link clearance. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages If real life operated like MMORPGs. Not fooling anybody. Walt Mosspuppet has a blog! No, there is an elephant in the way. 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