{"id":1403,"date":"2003-08-28T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T15:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/08\/28\/1403.html"},"modified":"2003-08-28T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2003-08-28T15:37:12","slug":"web-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/08\/28\/web-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Web roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Off to TorCon.  I should have Internet access over the weekend, but will probably be online only sporadically.  So to tide you over, here are some web pages to look at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\"From 1868 to 1975, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fvza.org\/\">Federal Vampire &amp; Zombie Agency<\/a> (FVZA) was responsible for controlling the nation's vampire and zombie populations while overseeing scientific research into the undead. This site is a tribute to the men and women who served in the FVZA, especially the over 4000 Agents who lost their lives fighting to keep our country safe.\" (courtesy of BoingBoing)<\/li>\n<li>If you want to see what our cities would be like without the FVZA's efforts, check out the (unrelated) <a href=\"http:\/\/zombies.insertdisc.com\/\">Zombie Infection Simulator<\/a> by Kevan Davis, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/zombies.insertdisc.com\/mattcordes\/\">advanced Zombie Infection Simulator<\/a> by Matt Cordes (in the advanced version, the humans can (fairly ineffectually) fight back). (Thanks, Joe!)<\/li>\n<li>Not interested in zombies?  How about some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbrowning.com\/vintage\/index.php3\">vintage computer ads<\/a>? (Thanks, Rebecca!)<\/li>\n<li>Alas, technology is still ephemeral.  It appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdfreaks.com\/news\/7751\">lifespan of certain recordable CDs<\/a> is under two years. (Thanks, Fred!)<\/li>\n<p>To drown your sorrows over the loss of your old data discs, you could have a games evening.  But what if your friends aren't gamers?  How do you \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegamesjournal.com\/articles\/Subterfuge.shtml\">Turn Family and Friends into Gamers Using Subterfuge, Mind Control and Violence<\/a>\"? (Thanks, Amy!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, that'll do for now.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off to TorCon. I should have Internet access over the weekend, but will probably be online only sporadically. So to&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","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=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}