{"id":25710,"date":"2010-07-06T13:02:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T13:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/07\/06\/interesting-items\/"},"modified":"2010-07-06T13:02:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T13:02:33","slug":"interesting-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/interesting-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC Sports Section accidentally released a version of its newly designed website that insulted many of its readers, and possibly insulted The Queen (depending on one&#8217;s interpretation).  The web site had &#8220;place holder&#8221; text and graphics that were not removed before release. <a href=\"http:\/\/themediablog.typepad.com\/the-media-blog\/2010\/07\/bbc-olympics-facebook-saddos-1800040710.html\"> Here&#8217;s the story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let this be a lesson to you, web developers!<\/p>\n<p>A legislator in California is afraid of the asbestos in the State Rock.  But, this asbestos can&#8217;t really get out of the rock an harm you. But technically, yes, it is in there, in the serpentine, helping it look all cook and stuff.  <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/booster_shots\/2010\/07\/california-serpentine-state-rock-.html\">Read about the stupidity. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>IBM has a computer that produces hot water to use for heat and takes less energy (than comparable computers) to run.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2010\/07\/05\/ibms-hot-water-supercomputer-goes-live\/\">Check it out. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC Sports Section accidentally released a version of its newly designed website that insulted many of its readers, and possibly insulted The Queen (depending on one&#8217;s interpretation). The web site had &#8220;place holder&#8221; text and graphics that were not removed before release. Here&#8217;s the story. Let this be a lesson to you, web developers! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/interesting-items\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting Items<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6GG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}