{"id":471,"date":"2004-05-09T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/05\/09\/todays-groovy-news\/"},"modified":"2004-05-09T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T14:56:00","slug":"todays-groovy-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/05\/09\/todays-groovy-news\/","title":{"rendered":"todays groovy news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=inside-head><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/2004-05-06-wooden-casing_x.htm\">Swedish company making wood computer peripherals<\/a><\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=intro-copy>SOLLENTUNA, Sweden (AP) \u2014 Computer users tired of black or beige plastic now have a more natural choice. <\/div>\n<table class=sidebar cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colSpan=4><img decoding=\"async\" height=20 src=\"http:\/\/images.usatoday.com\/_common\/_images\/clear.gif\" width=1 border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td rowSpan=2><img decoding=\"async\" height=180 src=\"http:\/\/images.usatoday.com\/tech\/_photos\/2004\/05-06-wooden-tech-main.jpg\" width=180><\/td>\n<td rowSpan=2><img decoding=\"async\" height=1 src=\"http:\/\/images.usatoday.com\/_common\/_images\/clear.gif\" width=10 border=0><\/td>\n<td class=sidebar vAlign=top width=75><span class=sidebar><span class=sidebar>With ash, mahogany or beech, the flat-panel LCD stands out more than it would were it a solid black, says Swedx general manager Jan Salloum.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td rowSpan=2><img decoding=\"async\" height=1 src=\"http:\/\/images.usatoday.com\/_common\/_images\/clear.gif\" width=10 border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td vAlign=bottom align=left><span class=sidebar><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=inside-copy>Swedx, a maker of computer peripherals, sells custom-designed monitors, keyboards and mice encased in timber culled from Chinese forests. <\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s not sandbenders, but it&#8217;s still pretty nice. On an unrelated note:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=headline><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/customwire.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/P\/PEOPLE_KAUFMAN?SITE=NNCO&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Party Set for Andy Kaufman, Just in Case<\/a><\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Andy Kaufman died of lung cancer on May 16, 1984, but according to legend, the eccentric comedian said if he were faking, he&#8217;d resurface 20 years later to the day.<\/p>\n<p>So, just in case, a party is being planned by Bob Zmuda, Kaufman&#8217;s best friend and partner, at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on May 16.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BEGIN POSITION 2 --><!-- END POSITION 2 --><!-- ZoneLabs Popup Blocking Insertion --><br \/>\n<script language=javascript>postamble();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish company making wood computer peripherals SOLLENTUNA, Sweden (AP) \u2014 Computer users tired of black or beige plastic now have a more natural choice. With ash, mahogany or beech, the flat-panel LCD stands out more than it would were it a solid black, says Swedx general manager Jan Salloum. Swedx, a maker of computer peripherals, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/05\/09\/todays-groovy-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;todays groovy news&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}