{"id":1038,"date":"2008-08-13T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2008-08-13T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T08:00:11","slug":"a-nice-sunny-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"A nice sunny day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several things this morning:<\/p>\n<p>(1) The feed from my Delicious bookmarks is still out of commission, but here are three, eclectic as ever, from the last couple of days:<Blockquote><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5036052\/traffic-from-space-videos-blow-our-minds-pants-and-socks\">Magic From Space: Traffic from Space Videos Blow Our Minds, Pants, and Socks<\/a> (yup. UK traffic visualizations, the sort of thing I&#8217;ve been imagining for years, and here it is) <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/2008\/08\/12\/geeks-nerds-or-dorks\/\">Geeks, nerds, or dorks?<\/a> (Joho the Blog points to an explanation of the frontiers of physics)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horinca.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/polish-truck-stops-we-like-them-very.html\">Dumneazu: Polish Truck Stops: We Like Them. Very Much.<\/a> (more food and music)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(2) Today&#8217;s BoingBoing tells us of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/08\/12\/old-time-record-enth.html\">Cliff Bolling<\/a>, an enthusiast for 78 RPM records, who has <a href=\"http:\/\/78records.cdbpdx.com\/\">digitized a whole lot of them<\/a> (all this via <a href=\"via http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/music\/2008\/08\/one-mans-quest.html\">a Wired blog posting<\/a>). Since I&#8217;ve been playing around with the same general sort of effort to extract music from obsolete formats and organize the resulting mountain of mp3 files, it&#8217;s useful to see how somebody else approaches the enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>(3) via <a href=\"http:\/\/keepswinging.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/lollipops.html\">Keep Swinging<\/a>: Chinatown My Chinatown as a banjo duel. The banjo player on the left is Spats Langham; on the right Johan Lammers:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><object width=\"420\" height=\"339\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/k6vKZLE1QBhFeuarbM\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/k6vKZLE1QBhFeuarbM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"339\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/k6vKZLE1QBhFeuarbM\">Chinatown &#8211; Johan Lammers\/Spats Langham<\/a><\/b><br \/><i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/lordlister\">lordlister<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several things this morning: (1) The feed from my Delicious bookmarks is still out of commission, but here are three, eclectic as ever, from the last couple of days:Magic From Space: Traffic from Space Videos Blow Our Minds, Pants, and Socks (yup. UK traffic visualizations, the sort of thing I&#8217;ve been imagining for years, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}