{"id":303,"date":"2008-03-06T06:51:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T10:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=303"},"modified":"2008-03-06T06:51:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T10:51:47","slug":"mixed-media-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/303","title":{"rendered":"Mixed media"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Observations on books as display items (yes, I&#8217;m thinking bowerbirds again) and on the fact that romance novels are not appropriate for this purpose &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2008\/03\/05\/aspirational-taste\/\">here<\/a>. A hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/corneliusbear.blogspot.com\/\">two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rebeccakoconnor.com\/operationdesertdove\/?page_id=2\">writers<\/a> of romances and a personal observation: unread books on my shelves are the result of a collision between bibliomania and the work week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Netvibes have just rolled out a new release (review <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080304-netvibes-goes-social-inside-the-ginger-update.html\">here<\/a>). One of the things the new version allows me to do is publish a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netvibes.com\/drhypercube\">public version<\/a> of my portal &#8211; a &#8216;universe&#8217; in netvibes-speak. I&#8217;m putting up a new category on the right margin; Alt Tentacles (yay <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alternative_Tentacles\">DKs<\/a>) will collect pointers to other debris I&#8217;m cluttering the web with. Flickr and Twitter get their own widgets &#8211; because they can.<\/li>\n<li>A musical interlude:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sgN-lGkVu0U\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observations on books as display items (yes, I&#8217;m thinking bowerbirds again) and on the fact that romance novels are not appropriate for this purpose &#8211; here. A hat tip to two writers of romances and a personal observation: unread books &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/303\">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":[5,21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-random-stuff","category-type1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-4T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}