{"id":1342,"date":"2010-06-28T19:23:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T23:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2010-06-28T19:23:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T23:23:49","slug":"odd-lots-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Several people have asked me what I think of <a href=\"http:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/\">the Calibre ebook reading, management, sync, and conversion system<\/a>, and that&#8217;s in fact what I&#8217;ve been fooling with in recent days. There&#8217;s a lot in the package, way more than in any other single ebook reader or manager that I&#8217;ve yet seen. A review will follow as time allows.<\/li>\n<li>I follow this site every day, and I may be a little jaded, but <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap100625.html\">this image (from June 25) made me gasp<\/a>. (Don&#8217;t forget to mouse over it for a guide to what you&#8217;re seeing.)<\/li>\n<li>And if you have any interest in the closest star to Earth, <a href=\"http:\/\/solarcycle24.com\/\">this site should be on your short list<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>From the Words-I-Didn&#8217;t-Know-Until-Yesterday Department: <em>Revendication<\/em>, an old word for &#8220;restoration.&#8221; Found in <em>Letters from Rome on the Council<\/em> by &#8220;Quirinus&#8221; (Acton, Dollinger, and Friedrich), 1870.<\/li>\n<li>From Jim Strickland comes a pointer to a skin-mag pinup&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloribus.com\/adsarchive\/commercials\/eizo_pin_up_calendar_2010\/\">hold the skin<\/a>. (C&#8217;est si bones&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.freepascal.org\/Lazarus_Application_Gallery\">an interesting list of apps built with FreePascal and Lazarus<\/a>, an open-source Delphi workalike. I&#8217;m going to try some of this stuff, because if it breaks, I may have a fighting chance of fixing it.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s the best description I&#8217;ve yet seen of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2010\/06\/you-dont-want-isps-to-innovate\/\">why broadband in this country is as weak as it is<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A tie-in with the Shrek movie series has apparently made Vidalia onions this summer&#8217;s hot item&#8230;with kids. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704123604575323433042544568.html?mod=ITP_TEST\">Kids are eating onions like never before<\/a>, simply because (as they said in the first movie) &#8220;ogres are like onions&#8211;they have layers!&#8221; Dare ya to do the same thing with creamed corn.<\/li>\n<li>A whole new category of vuvuzela emulator apps is getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/reviews\/product\/pr_vuvuzela\">lots of online buzz<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have asked me what I think of the Calibre ebook reading, management, sync, and conversion system, and that&#8217;s in fact what I&#8217;ve been fooling with in recent days. There&#8217;s a lot in the package, way more than in any other single ebook reader or manager that I&#8217;ve yet seen. A review will follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[41,43,73,90,14],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-astronomy","tag-humor","tag-language","tag-pascal","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}