{"id":3398,"date":"2015-04-16T18:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T00:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2015-04-16T18:55:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T00:55:50","slug":"odd-lots-277","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3398","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2015\/04\/15\/experts-hurricane-activity-at-45-year-low-usa-major-hurricane-drought-almost-a-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane activity is at a 45-year low<\/a>, and no major hurricane has achieved landfall on US soil in almost ten years. <a href= \"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2014\/12\/10\/u-s-tornado-numbers-among-lowest-in-recorded-history-in-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tornadoes have been pretty scarce recently as well<\/a>. Then again, it&#8217;s mid-April and snowing like hell outside right now. Two outa three ain&#8217;t bad.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/gawker.com\/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226\" target=\"_blank\">The Food Babe gets her you-know-what handed to her<\/a>. This, after all, is the woman who said, &#8220;<a href= \"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2015\/02\/12\/the-food-babe-there-is-just-no-acceptable-level-of-any-chemical-to-ingest-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever.<\/a>&#8221; Wow. I probably shouldn&#8217;t exist, then. (Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the link.)<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/04\/06\/more-scientists-doubt-salt-is-as-bad-for-you-as-the-government-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">More evidence that salt isn&#8217;t the demon that government guidelines insist that it is<\/a>. Remember, you can do the experiment on this one, as it applies to yourself: Give up salt for a month and record your blood pressure every day. Then go back on salt and record your blood pressure every day. If your BP doesn&#8217;t change significantly, you can pretty much assume that salt isn&#8217;t an issue.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/31\/upshot\/red-meat-is-not-the-enemy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Red meat is not the enemy<\/a>. And yes, the science is complicated. What science isn&#8217;t?<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/crickets-arent-the-superfood-theyre-cracked-up-to-be-1698223668\" target=\"_blank\">Crickets are not superfood<\/a>. Who knew?<\/li>\n<li>Carol and I have tried <a href= \"http:\/\/www.grazianofamilyofwines.com\/pdfs\/enotech12moscato.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this Moscato<\/a> and found it good.<\/li>\n<li>Someone pointed out that my <a href= \"http:\/\/www.junkbox.com\/electronics\/lowvoltagetubes.shtml\" target= \"_blank\">Low-Voltage Tubes page on junkbox.com<\/a> had gotten corrupted. Indeed it had&#8211;and I had unknowingly copied that corruption (which was present in my HTML source files)&#8211;onto all the backups I have here. So I pulled a trick I had thought about for a long time: I looked up the site on the <a href= \"http:\/\/archive.org\/web\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Archive&#8217;s Wayback Machine<\/a>, and checked their images of junkbox.com until I found one with an intact copy of the article. I then just lifted the portion of the file that had gotten corrupt and dropped it into the newest copy of the corrupted file. Fixed.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2015\/04\/14\/what_the_amazon_harpercollins_deal_means_for_e_book_pricing_and_publishing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon has a new contract with Harper-Collins that gives the publisher full agency<\/a>; that is, the freedom to set its own prices. Amazon is posting a notice on the sales pages of full-agency titles telling the customer that the publisher has set the price, not Amazon.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/difficultrun.nathanielgivens.com\/2015\/04\/14\/sad-puppy-data-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s some actual data crunching of the Sad Puppies phenomenon<\/a>, along with a good deal of sane and rational analysis. Stop hurling hate, and understand what&#8217;s going on. Hating isn&#8217;t helping your cause one bit.<\/li>\n<li>ESR thinks that <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6085\" target=\"_blank\">the real problem dividing SFF right now is literary status envy<\/a>. The piece goes back to last summer, which was before the whole industry went nuts over Sad Puppies. Worth reading, maybe twice.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re an SP3 supporter, you can get all kinds of Sad Puppies 3 merchandise at <a href= \"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/artraccoonsstudioshop\/12149926\" target= \"_blank\">the logo artist&#8217;s Cafe Press studio shop<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane activity is at a 45-year low, and no major hurricane has achieved landfall on US soil in almost ten years. Tornadoes have been pretty scarce recently as well. Then again, it&#8217;s mid-April and snowing like hell outside right now. Two outa three ain&#8217;t bad. The Food Babe gets her you-know-what handed to her. This, [&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":[21,37,39,16,18,5,13],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-electronics","tag-food","tag-health","tag-publishing","tag-sf","tag-web","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","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=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}