{"id":593,"date":"2006-06-20T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2006-06-20T17:43:48","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T17:43:48","slug":"quickies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/20\/quickies\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few of the interesting links I&#8217;ve run across today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/04\/if_microsoft_sold_ipods.html\">gag video<\/a> about how the iPod package would look like if it was designed by Microsoft? It seems that was created by Microsoft itself as an in-house presentation about the problems of branding and packaging. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipodobserver.com\/story\/25957\">here<\/a>.\n<li>Courtesy of Phil Plait&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2006\/06\/20\/earthrise\/\">Bad Astronomy Blog<\/a>, a pretty nifty <a href=\"http:\/\/marswatch.astro.cornell.edu\/pancam_instrument\/images\/Sol687B_Earthrise.gif\">animated gif<\/a> of Earth rising into the Martian sky. Naturally, this was assembled using photos taken by those amazing little Mars rovers. As Phil points out, &#8220;Everyone you know is in that picture, on that tiny mote of light.&#8221; I find this humbling, and really, really cool.\n<li>And finally, something that should come in most useful for you &#8220;workin&#8217; for the weekend&#8221; types, a <a href=\"http:\/\/stuff.twoday.net\/\">German blog<\/a> that demonstrates through photographs 1,000 methods for opening a bottle of beer. <i>Prost!<\/i>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have a good night, folks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few of the interesting links I&#8217;ve run across today: Remember that gag video about how the iPod package would look like if it was designed by Microsoft? It seems that was created by Microsoft itself as an in-house presentation about the problems of branding and packaging. Details here. Courtesy of Phil Plait&#8217;s Bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}