{"id":529,"date":"2008-01-25T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2009-01-15T12:33:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T16:33:22","slug":"odd-lots-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Here&apos;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=18155047\">a                 nice article from NPR on sleep<\/a>. Worth noting is the author&apos;s                 comment that in 20 years, the stylishness of getting only five                 hours of sleep a night may be seen the same way that the &#8220;stylishness&#8221;                 of smoking is seen today: As something that kills you before your                 time.<\/li>\n<li>Pertinent to the above: I have notes on an SF novel postulating                 a drug that lets people sleep as much as 23 hours a day, with                 a side effect that lucid dreaming is not only normative but shared:                 People using the drug encounter one another in their dreams, and                 struggle for control of the weird collaborative colony they&apos;ve                 created within the human collective unconscious. As years of use                 roll by, research shows that drug-induced sleep occupying over                 75% of each day leads to reversal of aging and what might actually                 be physical immortality. Sleep forever and live in your dreams!                 Take that, you short-sleepers!<\/li>\n<li>I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GOS_%28Linux_distribution%29\">Gos<\/a>                 earlier today, and it&apos;s an interesting concept: A Linux distro                 focused on Web apps that might be ideal for ultra-mobile PCs,                 tablets, and ebook readers. (Alas, it&apos;s not mature and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidesocal.com\/click\/2007\/12\/gos_lots_of_hype_but_not_so_fa.html\">may                 not be as &#8220;small footprint&#8221; as people would like<\/a>.)                 Many of the Web apps it installs by default are Google apps, which                 led me to wonder if the product&apos;s creators intended from the start                 to sell the company to Google someday.<\/li>\n<li>Pete Albrecht put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petealbrecht.com\/modelrocketrylinks.htm\">a                 long and detailed resources page for model rocketry<\/a>. Perhaps                 only peripherally related to model rocketry but interesting nonetheless                 is the linked-to story of <a href=\"http:\/\/home.att.net\/%7eferguspcj\/mbomarc\/bomarc.htm\">Miss                 Bomarc<\/a>. (I had a model Bomarc when I was a kid, and Pete is                 building a flying model.)<\/li>\n<li>From George Ewing comes a pointer to an intriguing article about                 <a href=\"http:\/\/space.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=mg18524911.600\">13                 Things That Do Not Make Sense<\/a>. Actually, they <i>do<\/i> make                 sense\u2014the problem is that we don&apos;t understand them yet. (Humanity&apos;s                 most grievous sin is refusing to admit its own ignorance.) I&apos;m                 glad they included cold fusion, and the one I would add is poltergeist                 activity.<\/li>\n<li>Jim Strickland sent me a pointer to an item about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/TECH\/01\/25\/bluetooth.legs\/index.html\">a                 pair of prosthetic legs that communicate via Bluetooth<\/a> in                 order to help a double amputee walk more effectively. The story                 I currently have doing the rounds (though all the majors have                 bounced it) posits a prosthetic leg with a 128-core Intel processor,                 a snarky AI personality, a thigh speaker, and WiMax, with all                 that that implies. If I don&apos;t sell it soon, you&apos;ll see it in <i>Souls                 in Silicon<\/i> later this year.<\/li>\n<li>This June, ContraPositive Diary will be ten years old. (How                 many blogs can make <i>that<\/i> claim!) What would you all suggest                 I do to celebrate? Should I publish a print book &#8220;best of&#8221;                 on Lulu? (Might make good bathroom reading&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&apos;s a nice article from NPR on sleep. Worth noting is the author&apos;s comment that in 20 years, the stylishness of getting only five hours of sleep a night may be seen the same way that the &#8220;stylishness&#8221; of smoking is seen today: As something that kills you before your time. Pertinent to the above: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,54,72],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noneoftheabove","tag-health","tag-science","tag-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}