{"id":942,"date":"2008-05-22T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T11:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2008-05-22T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T11:11:21","slug":"back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Back again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A several-days outage due to some server snafu&#8230; teaches me that the Blog matters to me, and I have a considerable backlog of stuff ready (or almost ready) to post. I note that the feed from my del.icio.us collections hasn&#8217;t updated, so that&#8217;s another thing to try to fix manually:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gasbuddy.com\/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx\">U.S. Gas Temperature Map<\/a> temp=$$<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/browser\">NY Times archive, 1851-1922<\/a> &#8220;All the news that <i>was<\/i> fit to print&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/institute\/sears1973\/7.html\">1973 Sears catalog<\/a> progress has been made&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisharrison.net\/projects\/amazonviz\/index.html\">Chris Harrison&#8217;s Amazon book map<\/a> &#8220;&#8230;10,316,775 connections (edges) between books Amazon believed were related. This allowed me to throw the data into my old wikiviz engine to spatially layout a huge mosaic of books (I let it run for a 140 hours). Items that were noted as being similar had attractive forces, bringing them together, often into large groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorpy.com\/node\/3441?size=_original\">Teddy bear stuffer from Shorpy<\/a> brrrrrr&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/20\/275-the-friendly-floatees-world-tour\/\">Duckies on parade<\/a>: &#8220;On January 10 1992, a container holding almost 29,000 plastic bath toys spills off a cargo ship into the middle of the Pacific Ocean and breaks open. The unsinkable toys, which were en route from Hong Kong to Tacoma (Washington), include a lot of iconic yellow rubber ducks that have since been caught up in the world\u2019s ocean currents and continue turning up on the most improbable shores.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtomb.mit.edu\/statistics\">YouTube takedowns<\/a> by requester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A several-days outage due to some server snafu&#8230; teaches me that the Blog matters to me, and I have a considerable backlog of stuff ready (or almost ready) to post. I note that the feed from my del.icio.us collections hasn&#8217;t updated, so that&#8217;s another thing to try to fix manually: U.S. Gas Temperature Map temp=$$ [&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-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","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=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}