{"id":768,"date":"2006-12-04T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=768"},"modified":"2006-12-04T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T16:18:13","slug":"monday_afternoon_amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/04\/monday_afternoon_amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Afternoon Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without preamble, the items that have distracted me from work this afternoon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Darth Vader&#8217;s advanced-design TIE Fighter from the original <i>Star Wars<\/i> film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/46272562@N00\/sets\/72157594405044200\/\">rendered in gingerbread<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/earthnow.usgs.gov\/earthnow_app.html\">Scrolling images of Earth&#8217;s surface<\/a> as photographed by the Landsat satellites. (Nod to Phil at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/\">Bad Astronomy<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2006\/11\/30\/live-from-landsat-the-earth\/\">bringing this to my attention<\/a>.)\n<li>Good <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/business\/293972_jonessoda29.html\">news<\/a>: the Jones Soda Company (previously mentioned on this blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2004\/11\/the_pause_that_refreshes.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2005\/11\/random_wednesday_linkage.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/11\/its_that_time_of_year_again.html\">here<\/a>) has announced that it will discontinue using high-fructose corn syrup in its products in favor of cane sugar. I personally believe that the food industry&#8217;s switch to cheap HFCS back in the &#8217;80s is a major component of why Americans are getting so damned fat &#8212; if you read the nutritional labels, the crap is in frakkin&#8217; <i>everything<\/i> these days &#8212; and real sugar tastes better anyway. Don&#8217;t believe me? Then do a taste-test of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dublindrpepper.com\/\">this stuff<\/a> versus the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; Dr. Pepper made with corn syrup.<br \/>\nNow, if only we could get the original-formula, made-with-sugar Coke that I remember drinking as a kid. Preferably in a glass bottle. It always tasted better in the glass bottle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without preamble, the items that have distracted me from work this afternoon: Darth Vader&#8217;s advanced-design TIE Fighter from the original Star Wars film, rendered in gingerbread. Scrolling images of Earth&#8217;s surface as photographed by the Landsat satellites. (Nod to Phil at Bad Astronomy for bringing this to my attention.) Good news: the Jones Soda Company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings","category-star-wars","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","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=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}