{"id":1445,"date":"2010-09-09T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2010-09-09T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T20:36:22","slug":"odd-lots-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>It keeps a very low profile somehow, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/gtwo_atl.shtml\">this NOAA site is the first place I go when I want to see what a hurricane is doing<\/a>. We&#8217;re a little short of hurricanes this year, but I&#8217;m good with that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/75775917\/The-Image-Bank\">This is what a pharmacy sign looks like in some parts of Europe<\/a>. Thanks to Terry Dullmaier (in Germany) for the link. Terry didn&#8217;t know if the middle neon part goes off to indicate that the pharmacy is closed. Anybody?<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve discovered a great little free clock app for Linux, called <a href=\"http:\/\/macslow.thepimp.net\/?page_id=23\">the Cairo Clock<\/a>. It can run in 24-hour mode and is skinnable, with about two dozen different skins available, some of them pretty weird. The skin I like is called Radium, and it (by choice) has a negative weirdness factor: It looks like an old wristwatch I got from my grandfather when I was a kid, which had radium paint on the hands and hour points. The second hand actually ticks forward and then falls back a little, as second hands driven by mechanical escapements used to do. I&#8217;d run it on Windows if I could.<\/li>\n<li>From the No-Models-Were-X-Rayed-To-Produce-This-Calendar Department: The now-famous X-Ray pinup calendar floated as a promo by EIZO was a fake, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/rawfile\/2010\/09\/x-ray-pin-up-girls-are-just-pixels\/\">albeit a mighty impressive one<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Higgins put me on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nndb.com\/\">NNDB<\/a>, which is a biography site and useful for that alone&#8230;but take some time to poke at <a href=\"http:\/\/mapper.nndb.com\/\">their mapping mechanism<\/a>, which plots connections between significant people both living and dead. Cool factor 11 out of 10; making the maps useful probably takes more practice than I&#8217;ve been able to give it so far&#8211;and you must keep in mind that every relationship charted is somebody&#8217;s opinion of something.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lroc.sese.asu.edu\/news\/index.php?\/archives\/277-Natural-Bridge-on-the-Moon!.html\">There is a natural bridge on the Moon<\/a>. (And I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rupes_Recta\">Straight Wall<\/a> was impressive!) Thanks to Darrin Chandler for the link.<\/li>\n<li>Numbers may be hard to grasp; precision and scale are even harder. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/525347\">This animation may help a little<\/a>. (Thanks to Chuck Ott for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t care <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pileus.net\/\">how silly an idea it is<\/a>. These guys get points for&#8230;something.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It keeps a very low profile somehow, but this NOAA site is the first place I go when I want to see what a hurricane is doing. We&#8217;re a little short of hurricanes this year, but I&#8217;m good with that. This is what a pharmacy sign looks like in some parts of Europe. Thanks to [&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":[41,43,59,14,31],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-astronomy","tag-humor","tag-linux","tag-software","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}