{"id":218,"date":"2007-07-28T15:48:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T14:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2007-07-28T15:48:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T14:48:31","slug":"curiosities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Curiosities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting stories I&#8217;ve read in the past few hours (<a href=\"http:\/\/unarocks.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Una<\/a> does this style of post more regularly and far better than I):<\/p>\n<p><strong>LiveScience.com:<\/strong> Ancient Egyptian may have had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/history\/070727_old_toe.html\" target=\"_blank\">world&#8217;s first prosthetic toe<\/a>. (With pic!)<\/p>\n<p><em>San Francisco Chronicle:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/07\/28\/VOTING.TMP&amp;tsp=1\" target=\"_blank\">Hackers crack all models of electronic voting machine in California<\/a>. More reasons the system will never get going in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RawStory.com<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/Michael_Moore_says_hes_been_served_0727.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Moore served with a subpoena while backstage at the Jay Leno show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Treehugger.com:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2007\/07\/shigeru_ban_bui.php\" target=\"_blank\">Architect Shigeru Ban builds a bridge out of cardboard tubes<\/a>. It&#8217;s in France and can hold the weight of 20 people at any given time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catholicgauze:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicgauze.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/future-of-cartography-dynamic-custom.html\" target=\"_blank\">The future of mapmaking<\/a>. Points to two excellent articles on how customised dynamic maps are transforming cartography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Associated Press:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/28\/business\/28google.html\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube&#8217;s system to stop copyright-infringing videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reuters:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070726\/od_nm\/germany_shoplifter_dc;_ylt=AkQVPRtBFzhJoExOONSHncXtiBIF\" target=\"_blank\">Dumbass shoplifter leaves address with the shop assistant<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting stories I&#8217;ve read in the past few hours (Una does this style of post more regularly and far better than I): LiveScience.com: Ancient Egyptian may have had the world&#8217;s first prosthetic toe. (With pic!) San Francisco Chronicle: Hackers crack all models of electronic voting machine in California. More reasons the system will never get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,36,8,42,45,57,72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}