{"id":950,"date":"2004-10-14T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/14\/did-you-know\/"},"modified":"2004-10-14T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T11:54:00","slug":"did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/14\/did-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"did you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am starting to realize that I should be less surprised when my friends list hands me the news sometimes days before anyone else gets it. I seem to have conglomerated a group of rather socially concious and interesting people. I&#8217;m blessed to have you&nbsp;all around me, even if only digitally. The last two or three weeks, I&#8217;ve known about almost every last bit of information that anyone&#8217;s brought up. I find out the day of that someone is dead or that the quantum computer is <em>that<\/em> much closer to being a reality instead of the three day wait the newpapers apparently have. <\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s&nbsp;the morning&nbsp;spray from my friends list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><!--StartFragment --><i>the first review of the new<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocket-lint.co.uk\/review.php?reviewId=628\"> ex-s100 3mega pixel<\/a> from Casio&nbsp;that uses a ceramic lens rather than the standard glass version.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><em>a piece of fairly <a href=\"http:\/\/217.120.95.225\/down\/\">short fiction<\/a> from someone named Twan B<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Practically Mouse Army <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.cnet.com\/news\/security\/0,39037064,39197226,00.htm\">takes on Australia<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>for your amusement, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklyworldnews.com\/conspiracies\/61525\">Al-Queda Plans To Drop Gay Bombs<\/a> from the weekly world news. (I&#8217;m surprised it took this long. I expected this headline a year ago)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><!--StartFragment --><span class=rss:item><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/dea\/programs\/forensicsci\/microgram\/bulletins_index.html\">Microgram Bulletin<\/a> is the DEA&#8217;s publication for tracking the ingenuity of drug smugglers<\/em><em>. It&#8217;s a very strange, yes interesting list.<\/em>&nbsp;&#8220;<!--StartFragment --><span class=rss:item><a name=015352>heroin-filled lollipops to heroin formed into machine parts to coke-filled Evian bottles to marijuana-based peanut butter<\/a>.<\/span>&#8220;<\/span>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>the united states continues inspiring The Fear, this time <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/17\/arts\/17rich.html?ei=5090&amp;en=8c2a594add800736&amp;ex=1255492800&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;adxnnlx=1097773454-hTlS0utc7vsyBwjWb7f2Lw\"><em>intimidating the media<\/em><\/a><em> overmuch.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>art: <a href=\"http:\/\/kozyndan.com\/yum_cha.html\">my mother thought I had SARS but it was really PMS<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>apparently this is news as well, though as I&#8217;m on the RSS feed, it didn&#8217;t occur to me: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/blog\/2004_10_01_archive.asp#top\">William Gibson back to blogging<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nothing terrinly fascinating, but there&#8217;s still a full day ahead of hot-links, politics, and interesting yet to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am starting to realize that I should be less surprised when my friends list hands me the news sometimes days before anyone else gets it. I seem to have conglomerated a group of rather socially concious and interesting people. I&#8217;m blessed to have you&nbsp;all around me, even if only digitally. The last two or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/14\/did-you-know\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;did you know?&#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-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","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=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}