The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We had a pretty boring weekend and I\u2019m saving the Jayhawk Talk for tomorrow, so a good day so share the latest stack of links I\u2019ve accumulated. Simply the best accounting of what Tech Karen has done to Twitter. Extremely Hardcore It\u2019s pretty amazing how many of the people who came out of Toronto\u2019s Second City are still culturally relevant. This is a terrific history of how they came together and built the group. Real OG\u2019s stayed up super late to watch SCTV in the \u201880s. Funny People I love so much that the whole King of Kong thing just keeps going. Donkey Kong cheating case rocked by photos of illicit joystick modification St P\u2019s moved their school play to Butler\u2019s auditorium this year. Because of that, they had to sell tickets through Ticketmaster. Thus a $13 ticket turned into a $24 ticket. For a freaking middle school play. Ticketmaster is a perfect example of how lobbying hurts the consumer. This piece dive\u2019s into Ticketmaster\u2019s history of manipulating both the market and legislation to protect their monopoly. There\u2019s a big focus on Pearl Jam\u2019s battle with the company in the mid\u201390s. It\u2019s funny how that conflict has been painted, even by PJ loyalists, as a futile and silly effort, a modern example of tilting at windmills. As this piece lays out, much of that view is thanks to Ticketmaster\u2019s controlling of the narrative. Ticket Master\u2019s Dark History This is one of the most creative and clever examples of sports journalism I\u2019ve come across in a long time. Choose Your Own Adventure: 2023 Indianapolis Pacers Trade Deadline Could the astronauts on the doomed space shuttle Columbia have been rescued before they had to re-enter Earth\u2019s atmosphere with a hopelessly compromised vehicle? It was unlikely, but NASA explored the possibilities while investigating the explosion of Columbia, which occurred 20 years ago last week. The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-11749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11751,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749\/revisions\/11751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}