{"id":1555,"date":"2010-03-09T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2010-03-09T20:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T19:00:48","slug":"bookmarks_for_march_7th_through_march_9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/03\/09\/bookmarks_for_march_7th_through_march_9th\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarks for March 7th through March 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2246107\">The international war over exit signs<\/a> &#8211; The classic American emergency exit sign has bold red letters spelling out E-X-I-T. The rest of the world thinks this is nuts, and mostly use some version of the ISO standard, a green pictogram showing a man running through a door.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2246105\">Can better signs help pedestrians understand London?<\/a> &#8211; London is putting up signs to help pedestrians find their way, and to reduce Tube congestion.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2010\/03\/cmap-5-why-books-are-the-lengt.html\">Charles Stross: CMAP #5: Why books are the length they are<\/a> &#8211; Why are novels generally the length that they are? It looks obvious at first &mdash; novels are the length they are because, well, they&#39;re novels &mdash; but in truth, the length of a novel varies depending on the prevailing publishing industry distribution model when it&#39;s written.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/idlewords.com\/2010\/03\/scott_and_scurvy.htm\">Scott and Scurvy<\/a> &#8211; How a known cure for scurvy was lost.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/international\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15636231\">The Economist: Gendercide &#8211; The worldwide war on baby girls<\/a> &#8211; Technology, declining fertility and ancient prejudice are combining to unbalance societies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com The international war over exit signs &#8211; The classic American emergency exit sign has bold red letters spelling out E-X-I-T. The rest of the world thinks this is nuts, and mostly use some version of the ISO standard, a green pictogram showing a man running through a door. Can better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[366,75,770,50,367,369,76,212,149,248,136,317,368,373,35,233,372,307,355,338,336,374,364,356,122,371,375,365,137,376,370,181],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favourites_on_the_web","tag-abortion","tag-bookmarks","tag-books","tag-children","tag-china","tag-culture","tag-delicious","tag-design","tag-diet","tag-gender","tag-health","tag-history","tag-india","tag-information","tag-language","tag-london","tag-maps","tag-marketing","tag-media","tag-medicine","tag-nutrition","tag-planning","tag-population","tag-publishing","tag-science","tag-scurvy","tag-signs","tag-society","tag-travel","tag-usability","tag-vitamin_c","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}