{"id":12447,"date":"2018-09-03T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=12447"},"modified":"2019-12-24T10:38:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:38:27","slug":"linkdump-for-september-1st-through-september-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/09\/03\/linkdump-for-september-1st-through-september-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkdump for September 1st through September 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2425,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.collectorsweekly.com\\\/articles\\\/it-came-from-the-70s-the-story-of-your-grandmas-weird-couch&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260219011914\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.collectorsweekly.com\\\/articles\\\/it-came-from-the-70s-the-story-of-your-grandmas-weird-couch\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 12:00:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 19:11:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 00:33:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 00:33:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2426,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.fastcompany.com\\\/90177573\\\/how-blue-became-techs-favorite-color-and-why-it-shouldnt-be&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260108000829\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.fastcompany.com\\\/90177573\\\/how-blue-became-techs-favorite-color-and-why-it-shouldnt-be&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 12:00:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:18:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 19:11:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 19:11:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2427,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/apple.news\\\/AEkyNd2rCRqiuXZQz4DhUew&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2428,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/kottke.org\\\/18\\\/08\\\/the-man-who-owns-the-moon&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2429,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/InstantSunrise\\\/status\\\/1033959100327976960&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240627222520\\\/https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/InstantSunrise\\\/status\\\/1033959100327976960&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 12:15:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 02:33:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:18:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:18:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Sometime between September 1st and September 3rd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collectorsweekly.com\/articles\/it-came-from-the-70s-the-story-of-your-grandmas-weird-couch\/\">It Came From the &rsquo;70s: The Story of Your Grandma&rsquo;s Weird Couch<\/a>: &ldquo;The &rsquo;70s, however, was a time when everyone, even the Western-loving square, was more open to experimenting in some way. Some people tried drugs or hosted swinging sex parties; others channeled their sense of adventure exclusively into garish upholstery.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90177573\/how-blue-became-techs-favorite-color-and-why-it-shouldnt-be\">Why tech&rsquo;s favorite color is making us all miserable<\/a>: &ldquo;The cold blue light of modern touchscreens may be aesthetically pleasing, but it poses health problems. Designers and technologists should take cues from military history and embrace the orange.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apple.news\/AEkyNd2rCRqiuXZQz4DhUew\">Lego Wants to Completely Remake Its Toy Bricks (Without Anyone Noticing)<\/a>: &ldquo;It wants to eliminate its dependence on petroleum-based plastics, and build its toys entirely from plant-based or recycled materials by 2030.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/18\/08\/the-man-who-owns-the-moon\">The man who owns the Moon<\/a>: &quot;For more than 35 years, Dennis Hope has been selling land on the Moon. Hope registered a claim for the Moon in 1980 and, since the US government &amp; the UN didn&rsquo;t object, he figures he owns it (along with the other planets and moons in the solar system).&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InstantSunrise\/status\/1033959100327976960\">A twitter thread in which I drag every single US president in order:<\/a>: Not many get off lightly &mdash;&nbsp;nor should they. Not an approach to history you&#039;re likely to find in most history classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between September 1st and September 3rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[23,1724,1442,14,514,65],"class_list":["post-12447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-film","tag-lego","tag-linkdump","tag-politics","tag-science","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}