{"id":96505,"date":"2017-06-30T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=96505"},"modified":"2019-03-13T01:13:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T08:13:35","slug":"20170630-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20170630-01\/?p=96505","title":{"rendered":"2017 mid-year link clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>    The U.S. Department of Defense     Office of General Counsel     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/ogc.osd.mil\/defense_ethics\/resource_library\/guidance.htm\">    publishes and revises<\/a>     a quite readable training document titled     &#8220;Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure&#8221;.     here&#8217;s     <a>    the September 2016 edition<\/a>.     In it, you learn things such as     <i>General Discovers that Military Aides Are Not Supposed     to Feed Cats<\/i>. <\/li>\n<li>    John Bois has a short sports-themed video documentary     series called     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/pretty-good\">Pretty Good<\/a>.     Every episode is worth watching, but today I draw your attention to     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=doZzrsDJo-4\">    222-0<\/a>,     the story behind the most lopsided American football game     in history.     Really, it&#8217;s pretty good. <\/li>\n<li>    The LA Galaxy Ridiculous Soccer Challenge     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lagalaxy.com\/post\/2016\/07\/18\/van-damme-delagarza-vs-25-10-year-olds-la-galaxy-ridiculous-soccer-challenge-driven\">    pits two professional soccer players against a team of 25 10-year-olds<\/a>,     or     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lagalaxy.com\/post\/2016\/09\/14\/gerrard-and-keane-take-bunch-eight-year-olds-ridiculous-soccer-challenge-driven\">    two professional soccer players against a team of 30 8-year-olds<\/a>.     I think this is the soccer version of &#8220;100 duck-sized horses.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>    In     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shake_It_Off\">    the Wikipedia page for the song <i>Shake It Off<\/i><\/a>     lies the sentence &#8220;The song&#8217;s arrangement features a saxophone.&#8221;     Big Saxophone has its hands in everything. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/wearethemutants.com\/2017\/03\/06\/pork-chops-and-apple-sauce-appraising-the-brady-bunchs-art-collection\/\">    Appraising the Brady Bunch&#8217;s Art Collection<\/a>:     &#8220;What follows is an examination of that which is meant to be ignored.     &hellip;     My work is sure to be a treat for anyone who loves art,     or <i>The Brady Bunch<\/i>, or tedious overanalysis.&#8221;     I think our house growing up had a starburst clock. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.skd.se\/2016\/09\/02\/frias-for-trafikbrott-pa-grund-av-fobi-for-fonsterkuvert\/\">    <i>Frias f&ouml;r trafikbrott p&aring; grund av     fobi f&ouml;r f&ouml;nsterkuvert<\/i><\/a>:     The successful defense was &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that my drivers     license was expired because I have a crippling     phobia of government letters.     I therefore never opened the letters informing me that     my license had expired.&#8221;     (The Swedish word     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/tyda.se\/search\/f%C3%B6nsterkuvert?lang%5B0%5D=en&amp;lang%5B1%5D=sv\">    <i>f&ouml;nsterkuvert<\/i><\/a>     literally means &#8220;window envelope&#8221;,     but it has come to mean &#8220;letters from the government&#8221;     because those notices come in window envelopes.)     The charges of aggravated DUI     and driving an unregistered vehicle, however, were not dismissed. <\/li>\n<li>    &#8220;<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/166066\/Any-lower-and-its-just-throwing-pieces\">Any lower and it&#8217;s just throwing pieces<\/a>.&#8221;     For people who think speed chess is too slow:     Introducing Ultrabullet chess.     Fifteen seconds per player. No time increment. Go.     Link also leads to a video of International Master Andrew Tang     playing an Ultrabullet tournament.     I tried watching it but everything was so fast I had no way     of understanding what it was I was seeing. <\/li>\n<li>    The     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.otamatone.com\/\">    Otamatone<\/a>     is one of the more annoying musical instruments.     That doesn&#8217;t mean it still cannot produce moments of beauty.     Like, say,     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VCZvcP4_X7E\">    The <i>Star Wars<\/i> theme<\/a>,     one of the many Otamatone performances by     Singaporean artist     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/nelsontyc.com\/\">Nelson Tan Yan Cong<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the customary plug for my series of short videos on <i>One Dev Minute<\/i>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/One-Dev-Minute\/One-Dev-Question-with-Raymond-Chen-Have-there-really-been-14000-builds-of-Windows\">    Have there really been over 14,000 builds of Windows?<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/One-Dev-Minute\/One-Dev-Question-with-Raymond-Chen-What-is-the-Kremlinology-of-Windows\">    The Kremlinology of Windows<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/One-Dev-Minute\/One-Dev-Question-with-Raymond-Chen-What-are-the-Common-Causes-of-Blue-Screen-Messages\">    What are the common causes of blue screen messages<\/a>? <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/One-Dev-Minute\/One-Dev-Question-with-Raymond-Chen-Why-are-there-Program-Files-and-Program-Files-x86-directories\">    Why are there Program Files and Program Files (x86) directories<\/a>? <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/One-Dev-Minute\/One-Dev-Question-with-Raymond-Chen-What-does-a-Blue-Screen-Message-Really-Mean\">    What does a blue screen message really mean<\/a>? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marking the halfway point.<\/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-96505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Marking the halfway point.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}