{"id":106,"date":"2007-02-15T10:56:36","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=106"},"modified":"2007-02-15T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T14:56:36","slug":"various-and-sundry-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/106","title":{"rendered":"Various and sundry links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few things I&#8217;ve run across that I wanted to post&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of my very favorite web cartoonists (graphic web-page-ist?) <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisonstad.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/my-trip-to-google-with-photos.html\">visits the Google campus<\/a>. Personally, I would have risked failure and filled my pockets at the hundred dollar bar. Also, Echo and Siouxsie Sioux? Awesome!<\/li>\n<li>A brief trip down memory lane courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/d-squareddigest.blogspot.com\/\">Daniel Davies<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2007\/02\/12\/embodied-energy-professor-mcluhan\/\">Crooked Timber<\/a>. The linked post on &#8217;embodied energy&#8217; (and the subsequent link at the <a href=\"http:\/\/yorkshire-ranter.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/useless-metric-of-decade.html\">Yorkshire Ranter<\/a>) are interesting in and of themselves, but it&#8217;s the reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piero_Sraffa\">Piero Sraffa<\/a> and theories of value that takes me back. In the mists of prehistory, when I was finishing my BA in Economics and doing an ill-fated year of graduate work on same, the big battle royale among the theory types on campus was Neo-Ricardians versus Marxists (forget the neoclassicists &#8211; boooring >grin<). Ah, good times...<\/li>\n<li>Inexpensive book scanner. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plustek.com\/usa\/product\/book3600.asp\">Plustek Optibook<\/a> is optimized for scanning bound material &#8211; the glass runs right up to the edge, cutting down on shadows and the amount of squashing (grits teeth just thinking about it) one must do to get a good image. Maybe with one of these I could scan some of the books I really ought to cull, making me a little more likely to do so. Haaa, ha, ha, gasp, snort &#8211; who am I fooling&#8230; <em>h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/02\/09\/scanner_for_books.html\">BoingBoing<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ph&#8217;nglui mglw&#8217;nafh Cthulhu R&#8217;lyeh wgah&#8217;nagl fhtagn! Lot&#8217;s &#8216;o <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbodio.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/godzilla-vampires-and-moby-goshawk.html\">Lovecraftian<\/a> fun on the interwebs over the past few days &#8211; if <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/tetrapodzoology\/\">Darren Naish<\/a> is going to venture into the biology of Howie&#8217;s critters, I can help out with research on the Old Ones &#8211; Arkham isn&#8217;t too far away and I assume the Miskatonic University archives still have material from the ill fated Pabodie expedition. Semi-seriously, though &#8211; I re-read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAt-Mountains-Madness-Definitive-Classics%2Fdp%2F0812974417%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1171550154%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&#038;tag=hawkdog-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">At the Mountains of Madness<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCall-Cthulhu-Penguin-Modern-Classics%2Fdp%2F0141187069%2Fsr%3D8-10%2Fqid%3D1171551080%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&#038;tag=hawkdog-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Call of Cthulhu<\/a> recently  &#8211; spurred on by Charlie Stross&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinityplus.co.uk\/stories\/colderwar.htm\">A Colder War<\/a> (you can read it on line by following the link) &#8211; and I think that Rucker&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHollow-Earth-Rudy-Rucker%2Fdp%2F1932265201%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1171551198%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&#038;tag=hawkdog-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Hollow Earth<\/a> needs to get queued up on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.t0.or.at\/subrise\/holeagod.htm\">nightstand<\/a>. Incidentally &#8211; the edition of Mountains of Madness I linked to above is a two-fer &#8211; it&#8217;s got a great introduction written by China Mieville.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That ought to do it for now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few things I&#8217;ve run across that I wanted to post&#8230; One of my very favorite web cartoonists (graphic web-page-ist?) visits the Google campus. Personally, I would have risked failure and filled my pockets at the hundred dollar bar. Also, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-1I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}