{"id":6782,"date":"2009-04-02T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=6782"},"modified":"2020-04-20T08:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:48:31","slug":"delicious-april-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/04\/02\/delicious-april-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for April 1st through April 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between April 1st and April 2nd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nyquil.org\/archives\/1189-Easy-Auto-download-of-TV-programs-from-Usenet.html\" title=\"Easy Auto-Download of TV Programs From Usenet\">Easy Auto-Download of TV Programs From Usenet<\/a>: &quot;After getting several threatening letters from Comast over the years, re: questionable Bittorrent activity, we&#39;ve opted to obtain all our questionably legal materials from a &#39;safer,&#39; medium, namely Usenet. All-in-all, Usenet is a pretty awesome way to quickly acquire media files without ever having to upload anything, and without anyone being on your back about it.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/namechk.com\/\" title=\"Check Username Availability at Multiple Social Networking Sites\">Check Username Availability at Multiple Social Networking Sites<\/a>: &quot;Check to see if your desired username or vanity url is still available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites. Promote your brand consistently by registering a username that is still available on the majority of the most popular sites.  Find the best username with namechk.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nyquil.org\/archives\/712-Family-Guy-Unfunny.html\" title=\"Family Guy == Unfunny\">Family Guy == Unfunny<\/a>: &quot;I&#39;ve taken the first half of a random episode off my PVR and edited all of the out-of-context things into a separate file, leaving us with a Family Guy storyline (unencumbered by random crap) and a bunch of random Family Guy crap (unencumbered by unfunny Family Guy storyline.) Everything that was in the first segment of the episode is in the two files; nothing has been lost except the opening credits. &para; If you&#39;ve watched both of these files, you&#39;ll have seen that the contents of the episode simply aren&#39;t funny (or as funny anyway) without the context-shift, meaning that it isn&#39;t the show or writers that are funny &#8212; it&#39;s simple juxtaposition that&#39;s making you laugh.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgets\/miscellaneous\/news\/2009\/03\/gallery_ewaste_recycling\" title=\"Where Gadgets Go to Die: Facility Strips, Rips and Recycles\">Where Gadgets Go to Die: Facility Strips, Rips and Recycles<\/a>: &quot;With 15 locations in the United States, Sims Recycling Solutions is one of the world&#39;s largest electronics scrap recyclers. Pictured here is the &#39;demanufacturing&#39; center of the company&#39;s Roseville, California facility, where workers disassemble everything from printers, cameras and computers to Jumbotrons for their reusable materials. The facility receives roughly 150,000 pounds of used electronics a day. &para; Follow along for a photographic tour of the Sims facility, where you&#39;ll learn exactly what happens to unwanted gadgets as they&#39;re dismantled, their components sorted and their raw materials melted down for scrap.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wrongtomorrow.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/wrongtomorrow.com\/\">Wrong Tomorrow<\/a>: &quot;<em>&#39;But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.&#39;<\/em> <strong>What does this site do?<\/strong> It keeps track of predictions of the future by public figures. <strong>How does it work?<\/strong> When someone makes a prediction, people post it to the site along with a brief description and a URL. We monitor it and change its status to true or false when appropriate.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between April 1st and April 2nd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0Easy Auto-Download of TV Programs From Usenet \u2022\u00a0Check Username Availability at Multiple Social Networking Sites \u2022\u00a0Family Guy == Unfunny \u2022\u00a0Where Gadgets Go to Die: Facility Strips, Rips and Recycles \u2022\u00a0Wrong Tomorrow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6782"}],"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=6782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}