{"id":3196,"date":"2005-10-11T01:15:03","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T08:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/10\/11\/3196.html"},"modified":"2005-10-11T01:15:03","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T08:15:03","slug":"items-technology-and-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/10\/11\/items-technology-and-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: Technology and computers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Heavier-than-air military airship: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/scienceoffiction\/050912_walrus.html\">Walrus<\/a>. See also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldskycat.com\/skycat\/data.html\">SkyCat<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\">Project Gutenberg<\/a> now has free audiobooks, apparently including some read by a computer?<\/li>\n<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/news.cms?newsId=103271\">Nissan to show quirky Pivo electric car concept at Tokyo show<\/a>.\"  (Note that this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Concept_car\">concept car<\/a>, not likely to ever go into production.)<\/li>\n<li>Like the look of the Mac Mini, but prefer Windows?  Try a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/pcs\/aopen-springs-pandora-for-holidays-128452.php\">Pandora<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Need to include math on a web page?  Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.union.edu\/~dpvc\/jsMath\/welcome.html\">jsMath<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wotsit.org\/\">Wotsit's Format<\/a>, providing \"file information on hundreds of different file types\" (and, at the moment, a really obnoxious blinky ad at the top of the page).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stevenf.com\/software\/webdesktop\/\">WebDesktop<\/a> lets you display a web page of your choice as your Mac&nbsp;OS&nbsp;X desktop background. (And you can specify a refresh interval if you like.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.upian.com\/hotlinks\/\">Hot Links<\/a>, featuring links to all sorts of computer- and web-related stuff.  I'm going to have to avoid this site; too much interesting stuff, refreshed too often.<\/li>\n<li>I imagine that you haven't had enough information lately about \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwheeler.com\/essays\/quotes-in-html.html\">Curling Quotes in HTML, SGML, and XML<\/a>\" ('cause, really, who has?).  While you're at it, you might also look at David E. Ross's advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rossde.com\/malaprops\/writing_internet.html\">Writing for the Internet<\/a>, which is all about ASCII and non-ASCII characters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Heavier-than-air military airship: the Walrus. See also the SkyCat. Project Gutenberg now has free audiobooks, apparently including some read&#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-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","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=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}