{"id":927,"date":"2003-02-27T10:09:53","date_gmt":"2003-02-27T18:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/02\/27\/927.html"},"modified":"2003-02-27T10:09:53","modified_gmt":"2003-02-27T18:09:53","slug":"various-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/02\/27\/various-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Various items"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Assorted unrelated items, none quite big enough to take a full entry.  A couple of these (including their descriptions below) are not work-safe.  (I'm never sure if I should put \"not work-safe\" in entry titles or not.  You're probably best off assuming that my titles won't contain anything off-color but my entries occasionally will.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I'm sorry to hear about Fred Rogers's death.  I find that I don't really have anything useful to say about it beyond that.  But I admired him, and I hadn't realized that his show had been running for over thirty years.<\/li>\n<li>A cute little Flash animation by Mark Fiore called \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markfiore.com\/animation\/alerts.html\">Color-Coded Alert Systems<\/a>.\"  Heavy-handed, but entertaining.<\/li>\n<li>A series of photos demonstrating how to turn a car into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mimno.org\/feb18snow\/hippo.html\">snow hippo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A piece from the \"Straight Dope\" message board about being attacked by a <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.straightdope.com\/sdmb\/showthread.php?threadid=160851\">miniature blimp<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Barzak's \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taverners-koans.com\/ratbastards\/supreme.html\">Notes Towards a Sort of Supreme Fiction<\/a>.\"<\/li>\n<li>A list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mum.org\/words.html\">words and expressions for menstruation<\/a> from around the world.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/inventors.about.com\/library\/inventors\/blrockettimeline4.htm\">timeline of rocket history<\/a> from 3000 BC to 1989 AD.  Especially intriguing is this entry for 1841: \"C. Golightly was granted the first patent in England, on a rocket-airplane.\"  I spent a while looking for more info about that but never found any.<\/li>\n<li>Cute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk\/\">fake error page<\/a> about the weapons inspections.  (Hint: that link is not broken.)<\/li>\n<li>Cute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masturbateforpeace.com\/\">Masturbate for Peace<\/a> site (\"Using Self-Love to End Conflict\").  Samples: \"I plan to masturbate for peace while looking at Internet porn  of liberty, stroking my penis of equality until it sprays the semen of tolerance  into the sock of pacifism.\"  And: \"God, give me the strength, the agility, the courage, and the  will to go on protesting this way, no matter how hard my hand cramps, no matter  how many tissues I need, no matter how tired and chafed I get, give me the power  to protest on.\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There's more, but that's all I have time for.  Oh, except that last item obliquely reminds me of this (streamlined for humor, not for accuracy):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was looking at the D section of his science fiction bookcase.  He had a lot of books by each author.  \"I think I have all these by Delany,\" I said.  \"But I don't have nearly as much Disch.  And you've got way more Dick than I do.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, on that note I'd really better get going.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assorted unrelated items, none quite big enough to take a full entry. A couple of these (including their descriptions below)&#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-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}