{"id":10824,"date":"2007-12-24T19:53:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T03:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/12\/24\/10824.html"},"modified":"2007-12-24T19:53:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T03:53:12","slug":"news-and-notes-from-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/12\/24\/news-and-notes-from-all-over\/","title":{"rendered":"News and notes from all over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Time for me to close some browser windows, by posting some items with no particular theme.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/2007\/12\/24\/071224on_onlineonly_newsbreaks\">The Year in Newsbreaks<\/a>: the <cite>New Yorker<\/cite>'s tidbits from newspapers and magazines.<\/li>\n<li>Presidential candidates name their <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/18\/their_favorite_gadgets.html\">favorite gadgets<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have a website where they post anti-WGA stuff. A couple of writers put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/amptp.humortron.net\/\">parody of the AMPTP site<\/a>; unfortunately, the original parody site has gone down, so I'm linking to what appears to be a mirror of it at humortron.net. No word on whether the original writers for that parody are getting residuals for the mirroring.<\/li>\n<li>Article from the <cite>Wall Street Journal<\/cite> about \"<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB119766934184930123.html\">Sock Wars<\/a>\": the old game of Assassin played by mail, with the killing method being to send your target a hand-knitted pair of socks. Unfortunately, the full article's no longer available at the WSJ site, but I vaguely recall hearing that they're thinking of opening up free access, so I'm linking to it anyway (and you can at least read the first few paragraphs).<\/li>\n<li><cite>Onion<\/cite> article: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/30258\">Baseball Imposes Tough New 'Three-Strikes-You're-Out' Rule<\/a>.\" One of those jokes that may be obvious in retrospect, but I haven't seen anyone do it before, and it made me laugh repeatedly. \"Among the factors umpires had previously taken into account: difficulty of pitch thrown, degree of pressure from fans and teammates to get a hit, socio-economic condition of the batter, and whether or not he showed any remorse for previous failed at-bats.\"<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/factory.lego.com\/gallery\/bricks.aspx\">Lego Digital Designer<\/a> lets you build with virtual Legos right there on your computer screen. Free download for both Windows and Mac.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aint-it-cool.com\/node\/35108\">Peter Jackson will be <strike>directing<\/strike> producing (thanks, Tim!) <em>two<\/em> movies connected to <cite>The Hobbit<\/cite><\/a>, in case anyone hadn't heard yet.<\/li>\n<li>Professor Jose Senovilla, at a university in Spain, has a theory that the phenomena associated with dark energy can be explained instead by the fact that \"<a href=\"http:\/\/ukpress.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jVw4s04zG-RxqVoKjwLps7coom8A\">time itself is slowing down<\/a>.\"<\/li>\n<li>Johnny Depp \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/698957,SHO-Sunday-depp16.article\">didn't know if [he] could really sing or not<\/a>\" until after he'd signed up to play the lead in the new movie of <cite>Sweeney Todd<\/cite>. Relatedly, I like what's on Sondheim's desk: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/16\/theater\/16sond.html\">a slab of stone; carved into it are the words 'Nothing is written in stone.'<\/a>\"<\/li>\n<li>Twig posted a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/plantgirl.livejournal.com\/748921.html\">bit of T.S. Eliot<\/a> for the Solstice the other day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for me to close some browser windows, by posting some items with no particular theme. The Year in Newsbreaks:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}