{"id":903,"date":"2007-03-20T16:33:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T16:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2007-03-20T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T16:33:07","slug":"driveby_blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/20\/driveby_blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-By Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some random stuff I&#8217;ve run across in recent days and would like to share with my Three Loyal Readers:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woostercollective.com\/2007\/03\/who_knew_1.html\">full-size model of a World War I-vintage Sopwith Camel<\/a> (Snoopy&#8217;s favorite plane, you know), complete with its own runway, on top of a building in NYC. Its purpose is reportedly &#8220;to amuse the inhabitants of surrounding buildings and scyscrapers, most notably the former World Trade Center.&#8221; My reaction to this was an amused, &#8220;Huh.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Music fans on the go in the 1920s apparently had their version of the Walkman (or the iPod, for you youngsters in the audience): the pocket gramophone. I&#8217;d never heard of such a thing until a couple days ago; there&#8217;s a gallery of these ingenious devices <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammophon.ch\/english\/taschen_grammophone_e\/taschen_grammophone_e.htm\">here<\/a>. (I especially like the Swiss-made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammophon.ch\/english\/taschen_grammophone_e\/mikiphone_e\/mikiphone_info_e.htm\">Mikiphone<\/a>, which resembles a smallish film can when it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammophon.ch\/english\/taschen_grammophone_e\/mikiphone_e\/mikiphone_details3_e.htm\">folded up<\/a>.) My original source on this was <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2x7ejq\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.somethingawful.com\/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=2382370\">This discussion thread<\/a> contains some simply <i>stunning<\/i> photos of the Cuyahoga County courthouse in Cleveland, Ohio. (You&#8217;ll have to scroll down past the annoying block of ads.) In my opinion, kids, this is how public buildings ought to look: grand, classical, and beautiful. Looking at these shots, I can almost hear my footsteps echoing from the cool marble corners&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>And finally, the winner and honorable mentions of a design competition for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/contest\/winner.php?contest_pk=14\">The Radical Radiators of the Future<\/a>. Radiators aren&#8217;t terribly common in these parts &#8212; I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve even <i>seen<\/i> one since I graduated from elementary school (my school was very old and had some great old-fashioned steam radiators) &#8212; but I really like the idea of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/contest\/view.php?contest_pk=14&amp;item_pk=10859&amp;p=1\">Fedora<\/a>&#8221; radiator grill, which features a little alcove in which to rest your chilled tootsies, warm a nice cuppa, or spoil your cat. Very cool&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that is all for now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some random stuff I&#8217;ve run across in recent days and would like to share with my Three Loyal Readers:<\/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-903","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\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}