{"id":11524,"date":"2008-10-08T18:50:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T01:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/10\/08\/11524.html"},"modified":"2008-10-08T18:50:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T01:50:55","slug":"items-cheereruppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/10\/08\/items-cheereruppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: Cheerer-uppers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite the warm sunshine the past couple days, and ice cream at lunch, I've been intermittently pretty grumpy, which has only been made worse by a variety of computer misbehaviors.<\/p>\n<p>So I was very pleased with a couple of (otherwise unrelated) items that cheered me up this afternoon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/08\/06\/children-in-the-mail\">Sending children through the mail<\/a>. The idea and quotes are fun, but the best part is the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/smithsonian\/2584174182\/\">photo<\/a>. (Thanks to Joe M.) See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.directcreative.com\/postal-experiments.html\">US postal experiments<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=\/arts\/2008\/10\/05\/sv_harrietrussell.xml\">Harriet Russell's puzzle envelopes<\/a>. (Thanks to Betsy P for the latter.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ\">Take On Me<\/a>: the literal video version. \"Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video?\" (Thanks, Mary R K!)<\/li>\n<li><cite>Phantom Tollbooth<\/cite>-style <a href=\"http:\/\/mfrost.typepad.com\/cute_overload\/2008\/10\/captain-n-hammi.html\">watchdogs<\/a> at Cute Overload. (Also a ferret in an aviator costume, which reminds me of my zeppelin story.) Oh, and on the literary theme, an <cite>Alice<\/cite>-style <a href=\"http:\/\/mfrost.typepad.com\/cute_overload\/2008\/08\/div-styletext-a.html\">croquet-ball hedgehog<\/a>, and (on no theme at all) a <a href=\"http:\/\/mfrost.typepad.com\/cute_overload\/2008\/02\/tubes-anonymous.html\">hedgehog trying to impersonate a kiwi<\/a> (or something).<\/li>\n<li>This one cheered me up a couple days ago: <cite>A Softer World<\/cite> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asofterworld.com\/index.php?id=361\">what to do with stock in these dark times<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, two I Can Has Cheezburger bits featuring big cats: <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/2008\/10\/07\/funny-pictures-not-antalope-dis-is-akwerd\/\">oops...<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/2008\/10\/04\/funny-pictures-nose-i-has-it\/\">Ur nose<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the warm sunshine the past couple days, and ice cream at lunch, I&#8217;ve been intermittently pretty grumpy, which has&#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":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524","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=11524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}