{"id":12163,"date":"2007-11-01T10:36:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T17:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/11\/01\/potpourri-for-1000-alex-2.html"},"modified":"2007-11-01T10:36:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T17:36:32","slug":"potpourri_for_1000_alex_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/potpourri_for_1000_alex_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for $1000, Alex!"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Cleaning out tabs …<\/p>\n

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  1. Yes, because what I really want on my air travel is adverts on the overhead bins<\/a>, like on a bus.  At least used<\/em> to be an “uncluttered, relaxed and comfortable environment.”<\/li>\n
  2. Analyzing The Incredibles<\/em> from a design and style perspective<\/a>.  “Yet as the pace quickens and the action builds, the design does too. Slick designer vehicles (think Philippe Starck on steroids) transport us to new architectural destinations: here are sites dotted by grand concrete all\u00e9es, framed by volcanic window treatments and walls of perfectly gridded weaponry. Even Syndrome, the villain\u2019s sensurround computer screen is well-designed, boasting well-kerned Bank Gothic letterforms within an icy blue-grey interface. It\u2019s design run amok, at once exquisite and terrifying: Fritz Lang\u2018s Metropolis meets Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s Imperial Hotel in Japan.”  <\/em>Um … okay.<\/li>\n
  3. Les provides an update on the True Bible Decoder folks<\/a> who were predicting New York’s impending Bible-predicted nuking, oh, a year ago.  They’re still at it, hammering out impending dates.<\/li>\n
  4. A scientist whose 1955 paper questioning some aspects of the spontaneous generation of life has formally withdrawn the paper<\/a> after finding creationists were citing it as proof of divine intervention in life — and after recognizing a variety of mistakes in what he wrote 52 years ago.<\/li>\n
  5. Halloween has been banned in Moscow schools as a “cult of death<\/a>.”  Boo!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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