{"id":12727,"date":"2010-01-21T23:49:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T07:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/01\/21\/12727.html"},"modified":"2010-01-21T23:49:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T07:49:56","slug":"items-miscellaneous-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/01\/21\/items-miscellaneous-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: miscellaneous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know long lists of unrelated links are kind of a pain, but I'm desperately trying to close some browser windows before my computer gets too slow to use.<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/firstpersontetris.com\/\">First-person Tetris<\/a> nearly gave me a headache. Neat idea, but not something I would want to play more than once.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.brianmooremedia.com\/\">WWII-style cyberwar propaganda posters<\/a>.<\/li>\n  <li>Wacky <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirbymuseum.org\/caesar\">costume designs<\/a> from a 1969 UC Santa Cruz production of <cite>Julius Caesar<\/cite>&mdash;designed by Jack Kirby. For example: a sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=14457\">Calpurnia meets Big Barda<\/a> kind of thing.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/senexprime\/4055072020\/sizes\/o\/\">US interstates in the style of London Underground diagram<\/a>.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rathergood.com\/cats\">The Internet Is Made of Cats<\/a> (video) (NSFW).<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooborns.com\/zooborns\/2010\/01\/baby-koala-oliver-at-the-riverbanks-zoo.html\">Baby koala<\/a>! KAWAIII!<\/li>\n  <li>Funny and brief Ursula K. Le&nbsp;Guin piece: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ursulakleguin.com\/Note-ChabonAndGenre.html\">On Serious Literature<\/a>,\" riffing on a line about Chabon \"trying to drag the decaying corpse of genre fiction out of [its] shallow grave.\"<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/18\/arts\/18liberal.html\">Why do professors tend to be liberal<\/a>? Partly due to typecasting, say two sociologists. (Also interesting bits about gender-typing of professions.)<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/17\/science\/space\/17nasa.html\">Space shuttles on sale<\/a>: only $28.8M apiece, down from $42M. And they'll now throw in the main engines (formerly $400k-$800k) for free!<\/li>\n  <li>Collection of 1400-plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasm.si.edu\/collections\/collection.cfm?collid=1483\">spaceship parts<\/a> and other related items at the National Air and Space Museum.<\/li>\n  <li>Chuck Klosterman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/chuck-klosterman-repeats-the-beatles,32560\/\">reviews that little-known 1960s band The Beatles<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know long lists of unrelated links are kind of a pain, but I&#8217;m desperately trying to close some browser&#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-12727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727","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=12727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}