{"id":13116,"date":"2010-06-19T21:51:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T04:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/06\/19\/13116.html"},"modified":"2010-06-19T21:51:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T04:51:35","slug":"items-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/06\/19\/items-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: Map, replicator, writers, distraction, zombies, World Cup, Hyperbole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A set of links in search of a theme.<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Interactive map showing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/06\/04\/migration-moving-wealthy-interactive-counties-map.html?preload=48453\">where Americans are moving from and to<\/a>.<\/li>\n  <li>The first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20627653.800-first-replicating-creature-spawned-in-life-simulator.html?full=true\">self-replicator<\/a> in the game of Life.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/htmlgiant.com\/behind-the-scenes\/htmlgiants-400-under-1\/\">Top 400 writers under the age of 1<\/a>. (In case you don't get it, this is a joke on the <cite>New Yorker<\/cite>'s &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/20-under-40\/writers-q-and-a\">20 Under 40<\/a>&rdquo; list.)<\/li>\n  <li>Why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/the_myth_of_the_conc.html\">distraction is not a problem faced only by tech users<\/a>.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/14\/newsweek-rises-from-the-dead\/\"><cite>Newsweek<\/cite> covers the zombie attack<\/a>. Best bit: &ldquo;A Newsweek spokeswoman, Jan M. Angilella, said that programmers had hidden the 'Easter egg' on the site to have 'a bit of fun' and that 'now that we've all had a laugh, we will be removing it.'&rdquo; I imagine her saying that very stiffly, through gritted teeth, with a forced and brittle attempt at laughter afterward; I suspect it's corpspeak for &ldquo;We're furious about this (and will attempt to fire those responsible), but if I say that, we'll be accused of having no sense of humor.&rdquo;<\/li>\n  <li>A history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soccerballworld.com\/HistoryWCBalls.htm\">World Cup match balls<\/a>.<\/li>\n  <li>Suddenly everyone is linking to Hyperbole and a Half. I'm now no exception; my favorite of the ones I've seen so far is &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html\">This Is Why I'll Never Be an Adult<\/a>.&rdquo; So true! Of so many of us!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A set of links in search of a theme. Interactive map showing where Americans are moving from and to. The&#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-13116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116","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=13116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}