{"id":857,"date":"2004-09-22T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/09\/22\/detritus\/"},"modified":"2004-09-22T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-22T15:49:00","slug":"detritus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/09\/22\/detritus\/","title":{"rendered":"detritus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got too many windows open and it&#8217;s sucking my computer back into the bronze age. I&#8217;m just going to post the mess of them here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;s a sad thing, but happens to everyone. <a href=\"http:\/\/uppity-negro.com\/\">The guy behind uppity-negro has passed on<\/a>. Every time I dropped in there, I&#8217;d learn something. I don&#8217;t know if the site&#8217;s going to be kept up or even if it could be properly with different brains behind it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/09\/22\/rip_russ_meyer.html\">Russ Meyer has also just died<\/a>. The amusing twist of mind man behind Faster Pussycat Kill Kill.<br \/>\nWe in Vancouver have a new overnight quest. One that will require a little prep, but will be worth it. <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=1516&amp;e=3&amp;u=\/afp\/oly_2010_canada\">We have to go here<\/a>. We&#8217;ve an abandoned&nbsp;town within reasonable distance. A jaunt into a modern ghostown. As I already list trespassing and clambering as hobbies, this simply sounds nice. <\/p>\n<p>IBM scientists have<a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.ibm.com\/resources\/news\/20040909_samm.shtml\"> measured a fundamental magnetic property of a single atom<\/a> &#8212; the energy required to flip its magnetic orientation. This is the first result by a promising new technique they developed to study the properties of nanometer-scale magnetic structures that are expected to revolutionize future information technologies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/09\/21\/zombie_apocalypse_no.html\">Technology makes me happy<\/a>. Spreading information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/003080.html\">go now, more<\/a>. We the people, etcetera et al. It seems to be a theme in my reading. I suppose that&#8217;s what happens <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreillynet.com\/cs\/et2005\/create\/e_sess\">when I find something<\/a> I believe in. &nbsp;Which leads into t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecyrd.com\/ButtUgly\/Wiki.jsp?page=Main_blogentry_210904_1\">his open letter from the computer industry to the music industry<\/a> that is worth a laugh. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradiserevelationsdiet.com\/gamnewdal.htm\">This is also funny<\/a>, though I admit, &nbsp;in a less intelligent way. Maybe one with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39078\">more insanity and less precision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To go with the horses head, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantmicrobes.com\/\">there&#8217;s these<\/a>. Microbe stuffies. I can imagine a row of them on my windowsill next to Animal. Make my window perch comfier yet&nbsp;that much more surreal. Bad enough the x-rays apparently make me a &#8220;wacky neighbor&#8221; (thank you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/~reluctance\">Rowan<\/a>). I think I&#8217;m especially in love with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantmicrobes.com\/calamities\/sleepingsickness.html\">&#8216;sleeping sickness&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;Hypochondriacs beware. Not, of course, that we don&#8217;t seem to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthday.com\/view.cfm?id=521231\">finding ways to deal with fear<\/a>. Of course, sometimes it&#8217;s good to be wary. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/09\/19\/wirq319.xml&amp;sSheet=\/news\/2004\/09\/19\/ixworld.html\">weapons out there<\/a> now that I remember reading about as fiction in Mondo 2000 when I was a kid. In fact, if anyone has any issues kicking around, I would dearly appreciate them. I&#8217;ve lost most of mine traveling along the way from age six. <\/p>\n<p>Bonus smile: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonionavclub.com\/\"> Stephen Fry being interviewed by The Onion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got too many windows open and it&#8217;s sucking my computer back into the bronze age. I&#8217;m just going to post the mess of them here. I&#8217;s a sad thing, but happens to everyone. The guy behind uppity-negro has passed on. Every time I dropped in there, I&#8217;d learn something. I don&#8217;t know if the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/09\/22\/detritus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;detritus&#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-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}