{"id":9834,"date":"2011-06-15T00:16:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T04:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9834"},"modified":"2011-06-14T17:39:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T21:39:55","slug":"daily-link-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/daily-link-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily link roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More links that don&#8217;t quite make it as separate blog entries.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North Carolina shipwreck officially recognized as being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2011\/06\/10\/3692152\/its-official-ship-found-off-nc.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Queen Ann&#8217;s Revenge<\/em><\/a>, the flagship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard. &#8220;The <em>Queen Anne&#8217;s Revenge<\/em>, a captured French slave ship, was part of a four-vessel pirate flotilla when it ran aground in 1718 beside the inlet leading to Beaufort and was abandoned. The wreck was found a little more than a mile off the beach in 1996 by Intersal, a private salvage company. The location precisely matched historical accounts of the grounding, and the ship appeared to be the right vintage and size and was armed to an unusual degree. And from the first, the artifacts brought up fit the origins of the ship, the crew and the places it was known to have visited.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>If more reporters (and bloggers) followed <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.independent.co.uk\/2011\/06\/14\/the-banned-list-top-100\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Rentoul&#8217;s list of forbidden words and phrases<\/a> the internet would be only a few megabytes in size (really, those phrases seem to appear in every article and blog post lately). &#8220;The original Banned List was, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orwell.ru\/library\/essays\/politics\/english\/e_polit\" target=\"_blank\">George Orwell\u2019s in 1946<\/a>: dying metaphors (\u201cExamples are: Ring the changes on, take up the cudgel for, toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder with, play into the hands of, no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubled waters, on the order of the day, Achilles\u2019 heel, swan song, hotbed\u201d); verbal false limbs (\u201cCharacteristic phrases are render inoperative, militate against, make contact with, be subjected to, give rise to, give grounds for, have the effect of, play a leading part (role) in, make itself felt, take effect, exhibit a tendency to, serve the purpose of\u201d); pretentious diction (\u201cWords like phenomenon, element, individual (as noun), objective, categorical, effective, virtual, basic, primary, promote, constitute, exhibit, exploit, utilise, eliminate, liquidate\u201d); and meaningless words (his examples included \u201cclass, totalitarian, science, progressive, reactionary, bourgeois, equality\u201d).&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Significantly different approaches by Canadian and British militaries to dealing with &#8220;operational security&#8221; over <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.canada.com\/ottawacitizen\/blogs\/defencewatch\/archive\/2011\/06\/14\/canada-doesn-t-talk-about-libyan-attacks-but-british-detail-how-their-aircraft-dropped-9-paveways-in-raid-on-libyan-military-base-and-destroyed-bunkers-tanks-and-ships-in-various-raids.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_content=military+canada+army+armed+forces+soldiers+Canada+ottawa\" target=\"_blank\">Libyan operations<\/a>. &#8220;It is interesting to contrast the amount of information the Canadian Forces releases on its missions in Libya. It talks about the war in general terms but CF spokesman Brig. Gen. Richard Blanchette claims that detailing the type or numbers of bombs dropped on targets (or even naming specific targets) would violate operational security.&#8221; The British, in contrast, are eager to tell how many bombs (and of what type) were dropped from which aircraft and which Royal Navy vessels were involved in combat operations.<\/li>\n<li>I was happy to see that Rogier van Bakel is now working with <a href=\"http:\/\/nobodysbusinessblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">some co-bloggers<\/a> at a new URL. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/nobodysbusinessblog.com\/2011\/06\/07\/how-are-we-doing-so-far\/\" target=\"_blank\">round-up of who, what, and where<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More links that don&#8217;t quite make it as separate blog entries. North Carolina shipwreck officially recognized as being Queen Ann&#8217;s Revenge, the flagship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard. &#8220;The Queen Anne&#8217;s Revenge, a captured French slave ship, was part of a four-vessel pirate flotilla when it ran aground in 1718 beside the inlet leading to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,28,5],"tags":[204,354,729,468,365,134],"class_list":["post-9834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-media","category-military","tag-blogging","tag-georgeorwell","tag-northcarolina","tag-piracy","tag-wreck","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2yC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9834"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9849,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions\/9849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}