{"id":3108,"date":"2014-04-03T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T00:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2014-04-03T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T00:04:10","slug":"odd-lots-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3108","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Hats off to T. C. Chua, who figured out how to make <a href= \"http:\/\/www.zoundryraven.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zoundry Raven<\/a> work with IE9+. Raven uses IE&#8217;s WYSIWYG editor, and <a href= \"http:\/\/chuahtc.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/zoundry-raven-getting-raven-to-work.html?showComment=1394615578870#c6499584199864820333\" target=\"_blank\">changes made to the editor with IE9 breaks the program completely<\/a>. Zoundry is open-source and hasn&#8217;t been updated since 2008. Mr. Chua traced through the Python code, found the problem, fixed it, and built an .EXE out of the Python code. <a href= \"http:\/\/chuahtc.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/ravenplus-my-build-of-zoundry-raven.html\" target=\"_blank\">He&#8217;s made it available here<\/a>. I&#8217;ve used Raven to edit and post Contra entries since 2008, and didn&#8217;t feel like chasing down some new blog editor now that I&#8217;ve moved to Win7. Bravo!<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0088278&amp;representation=PDF\" target=\"_blank\">Vegetarian diets are not as healthy as we&#8217;ve been led to believe<\/a>. Make sure you scroll down to Table 3 and get a look at the figures for cancer. Now, some thrive on vegetarian diets and many don&#8217;t. What the research doesn&#8217;t appear to take into account is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1435\" target=\"_blank\" title= \"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1435\">&#8220;lifestyle panic<\/a>,&#8221; which is severe anxiety that some (usually minor) aspect of your life will kill you. If worry about your diet turns your life into a cortisol thrill ride, your diet won&#8217;t help you, and it certainly won&#8217;t be what killed you.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/mars-2014-opposition-how-to-see-april-best-time-to-see-brightest\" target=\"_blank\">Mars reaches opposition on April 8, and the best day for observing it is April 14<\/a>. Actually, any time within a week or two of those dates will provide a pretty good show, especially if you have even a smallish telescope. Such opportunities happen roughly every two years, so catch it now or wait until 2016!<\/li>\n<li>Wearable computing has never really set the world on fire, and here&#8217;s <a href= \"http:\/\/endeavourpartners.net\/assets\/Wearables-and-the-Science-of-Human-Behavior-Change-EP4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a reasonably honest assessment as to why<\/a>. I already have one computer in my pocket, and that&#8217;s plenty.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/lehmann-aviation-la100-version2\/31363\/\" target=\"_blank\">A GoPro-packing RC flying wing<\/a>. Makes kites look kind of lame, but lame is what I have on hand, and lame is how I&#8217;m going to fly my GoPro this spring. If we ever get a spring. (6&#8243; of sloppy stuff this morning; would have been 15&#8243; had it been ten degrees colder.)<\/li>\n<li>Cores (<a href= \"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnetic-core_memory\" target= \"_blank\">the <em>other<\/em> kind of cores<\/a>) <a href= \"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/2014\/a-pile-of-core-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\">like dust<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>My instance of the Gallery photo server is pretty much dead, and I&#8217;ve begun migrating photos to Flickr. Here&#8217;s <a href= \"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/121958351@N02\/\" target=\"_blank\">my photostream link<\/a>, and my <a href= \"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/121958351@N02\/sets\/\" target= \"_blank\">three sets<\/a> so far. I&#8217;m not yet an ace at the system by any means, but with some practice I&#8217;ll get everything interesting up there.<\/li>\n<li>Ok. <a href= \"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/2014\/the-marshmallowmatic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Precision marshmallow toasting is cool<\/a>. Just don&#8217;t get nuts and melt the mallow into the machinery.<\/li>\n<li>I study climate, in general to support a fiction concept I&#8217;m working on, but I don&#8217;t talk about it here because I don&#8217;t like to trigger the sort of slobbering tribal hatred that any such discussion invariably involves. This is <a href= \"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/ftp\/arxiv\/papers\/0809\/0809.3762.pdf\" target= \"_blank\">an interesting (if depressing) psychological phenomenon<\/a> all by itself. (Thanks to Trevor Thompkins for the link.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tieks.com\/brasieks.html\" target=\"_blank\">This turned up on April 1<\/a>, but like all the best hoaxes, it is nowhere clear that it&#8217;s actually a hoax. So is it? (Thanks to Esther Schindler for the link.)<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/04\/worlds-smallest-volcano-discovered-in-colombia\/\" target=\"_blank\">The world&#8217;s smallest volcano<\/a> was maybe just a <em>little<\/em> easier to suss out&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hats off to T. C. Chua, who figured out how to make Zoundry Raven work with IE9+. Raven uses IE&#8217;s WYSIWYG editor, and changes made to the editor with IE9 breaks the program completely. Zoundry is open-source and hasn&#8217;t been updated since 2008. 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