{"id":2241,"date":"2011-12-23T09:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T16:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2011-12-23T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T16:40:15","slug":"odd-lots-177","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/12\/20\/nook-tablet-update-closes-sideloading-loophole-lacks-holiday-sp\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Nook Tablet is no longer rootable<\/a>, thanks to a recent stealth update applied automatically when the device connects to the Internet. The big deal with the mod is that sideloaded apps can no longer be installed; all you get are what&#8217;s available from the B&amp;N app store.<\/li>\n<li>Lose a few, win a few: Amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/12\/22\/amazon-stops-blocking-rival-e-reading-apps-on-kindle-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\">no longer blocks rival ebook apps on its Kindle Fire<\/a> almost-a-tablet.<\/li>\n<li>I always roll my eyes when people say things like &lt;YEAR&gt; will be the Year of the &lt;WHATEVER&gt;. However, I&#8217;m inclined to believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/byte\/commentary\/personal-tech\/tablets\/232301038\" target=\"_blank\">Android may finally begin coming of age in 2012<\/a>, and I&#8217;m hoping to score a 10&#8243; ICS tablet once I find one with an external card slot and (ideally) USB charging.<\/li>\n<li>Xoom 2\/Xyboard is off my list because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2397670,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">it doesn&#8217;t have an external card slot<\/a>. I also agree with the review (having a Verizon-issued Droid X2 now) that the Verizon app store is hideous.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5870084\/worlds-smallest-flash-drive-makes-it-even-easier-to-misplace-16gbs\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> may well be the smallest <em>possible<\/em> USB thumb drive. No, I don&#8217;t want one. I might inhale it.<\/li>\n<li>Joe Bryer, who sent me the coal samples I described yesterday, has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Ashcat743\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">some nice videos<\/a> on YouTube about using coal for home heat.<\/li>\n<li>The chemical structure of coal (granting that it&#8217;s not a uniform material but a mix of many hydrocarbon compounds) looks something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ems.psu.edu\/~radovic\/coal_structure.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>. (Thanks to Pete Albrecht for spotting this for me.)<\/li>\n<li>My very talented <a href=\"http:\/\/taostoolbox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taos Toolbox<\/a> 2011 colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php#!\/lnmorton\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Nohealani Morton<\/a> had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php#!\/photo.php?fbid=10151079451725227&amp;set=a.10151079450425227.781800.579290226&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">her name tattoed on her arm&#8211;in binary<\/a>. I myself am no stranger to binary, but if you don&#8217;t believe me you can translate it using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roubaixinteractive.com\/PlayGround\/Binary_Conversion\/Binary_To_Text.asp\" target=\"_blank\">a binary-to-text translator<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>What if you&#8217;d been at my high school lunch table in the spring of 1970? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100000270541162&amp;ref=tn_tnmn#!\/photo.php?fbid=325371344148548&amp;set=t.100000270541162&amp;type=1&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">This is what you would have seen<\/a>. I boggle a little at my then-habit of drinking milk and lemonade at the same meal, but I&#8217;ve done (<a href=\"http:\/\/junkbox.com\/gallery\/JeffAndCarol\/C_JJuly1971\" target=\"_blank\">and worn<\/a>) far weirder things in my life.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/awkwardfamilyphotos.com\/2011\/12\/09\/come-together\/\" target=\"_blank\">Be careful what stuffed animals you pose with<\/a> over at the photography studio, especially for your Christmas photo cards. Peace on Earth and all that&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criggo.com\/2011\/12\/huh-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">42% of the 100% must think they&#8217;re part of the 1%<\/a>. Or something. (Thanks to Michael Covington for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>Offered without comment: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/12\/your-whiskey-tango-foxtrot-moment-for-today.html\" target=\"_blank\">The continents can be rearranged to form a chicken<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nook Tablet is no longer rootable, thanks to a recent stealth update applied automatically when the device connects to the Internet. The big deal with the mod is that sideloaded apps can no longer be installed; all you get are what&#8217;s available from the B&amp;N app store. Lose a few, win a few: Amazon [&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":[17,15,43,54,110],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-ebooks","tag-hardware","tag-humor","tag-science","tag-tablets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","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=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}