{"id":3198,"date":"2005-10-11T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T08:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/10\/11\/3198.html"},"modified":"2005-10-11T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T08:19:09","slug":"items-hodgepodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/10\/11\/items-hodgepodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: Hodgepodge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Okay, I've run out of themes.  Here's everything else.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Article titled \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfiber.com\/blackirish\/\">The Myth of the Black Irish: Spanish Syntagonism and Prethetical Salvation<\/a>.\"<\/li>\n<li>I can't decide what to think of the Southwest Airlines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwest.com\/travel_center\/cos_qa.html\">Customer of Size Q&amp;A<\/a>.  Are they being generous or patronizing, helpful or discriminatory?<\/li>\n<li>They're coming out with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneyfactory.gov\/newmoney\/main.cfm\/currency\/aboutNotes\">new $10 bills<\/a> soon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingtoday.org\/\">Working Today<\/a>, \"a national nonprofit that represents the needs and concerns of the independent workforce through advocacy, information, and service.\"  Including info on the Freelancers Union.  I don't remember who I got this from, so I don't know how much to trust it, so don't consider this link an endorsement.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-internetvillage6oct06,0,6843817.story?coll=la-home-world\">Chinese Town Loses Hyperlink to Future<\/a>. The saddest part about this, from one perspective, is that the computers are now being used to find the locals jobs in distant cities, so many of them are leaving.  I mean, sure, jobs are good, but still.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbspot.com\/News\/2005\/10\/top_11_geek_pick_up_lines_3.html\">Top 11 Geek Pickup Lines<\/a>, part 3, with links to the previous two parts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/subject_by_subject\/subject.aspx?path=\/subject%20by%20subject\/literature\/\">Psychogeography: a beginner's guide<\/a>, a book review of a sort.<\/li>\n<li>Who knew that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfs.org.uk\/woodshed.asp?woodshedDetails=114\">leaves on train tracks<\/a> could be a hazard?<\/li>\n<li>Two Rock\/Paper\/Scissors expansion sets: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapersaddam.com\/\">Rock, Paper Saddam<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umop.com\/rps25.htm\">RPS-25<\/a>.  The latter doesn't quite reach the level of generality of the old SWIL game Rock\/Paper\/Scissors\/Anything Else, in which the gesture\/name combination that's adjudged by observers to be most entertaining wins, but I have to admire the author's perseverance.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acaeum.com\/DDIndexes\/SetPages\/Original.html\">Identify your original D&amp;D set<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>They have a somewhat entertaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pathe.nl\/kijkwijzer.asp?bios_id=-1\">movie rating system<\/a> in the Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li>This year's <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20051007\/ap_on_fe_st\/ig_nobels\">Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia claims that Tolkien referred to his work as a \"<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legendarium\">legendarium<\/a>,\" \"a book or series of books consisting of a collection of legends.\"  Not a term I had ever encountered before; also not in MW3 or MW11.  I'm dubious.<\/li>\n<li>And last but certainly not least, here's the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonic.net\/~erisw\/bdlibgallery.html\">Gallery of Bellydancing Librarians<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;ve run out of themes. Here&#8217;s everything else. 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