{"id":1558,"date":"2010-03-21T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2010-03-21T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T21:01:09","slug":"bookmarks_for_march_11th_through_march_21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/03\/21\/bookmarks_for_march_11th_through_march_21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarks for March 11th through March 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/europe\/article7070239.ece\">Times: Iceland prepares for possible second volcanic eruption<\/a> &#8211; After a small volcano eruption this weekend in Iceland, the danger is that it will trigger the much larger Katla. The outlook isn&#39;t good: Eyjafjallajokull has blown 3 times over the last 1000 years, and Katla always followed. A big eruption can have global consequences.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-technology\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15660902\">Economist: Metabolic syndrome: A game of consequences?<\/a> &#8211; Some scientists are now saying that being fat, long thought to be a bad thing, is actually a protective mechanism against other, more damaging effects of overeating.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextnature.net\/2009\/08\/why-are-carrots-orange-it-is-political\/\">Why are carrots orange? It is political.<\/a> &#8211; Carrots used to be white, red, orange and purple. Now they&#39;re almost all orange. Why? Because of 17th century politics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/qntm.org\/gay\">Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective<\/a> &#8211; Starts as a stream of consciousness about equal parts nuptial rights and Structured Query Language and finishes up moving into graph theory.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.brown.edu\/people\/acb\/codebubbles_site.htm\">Code Bubbles Project: Rethinking the User Interface of IDEs<\/a> &#8211; &quot;The file-based nature of contemporary IDEs makes it prohibitively difficult to create and maintain a simultaneous view of such fragments. We propose a novel user interface metaphor for code understanding and maintanence based on collections of lightweight, editable fragments called bubbles, which form concurrently visible working sets.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com Times: Iceland prepares for possible second volcanic eruption &#8211; After a small volcano eruption this weekend in Iceland, the danger is that it will trigger the much larger Katla. The outlook isn&#39;t good: Eyjafjallajokull has blown 3 times over the last 1000 years, and Katla always followed. A big eruption [&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":[326,383,75,384,381,76,212,61,149,25,136,382,391,378,373,380,338,390,156,365,377,379,392],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favourites_on_the_web","tag-agriculture","tag-architecture","tag-bookmarks","tag-carrots","tag-database","tag-delicious","tag-design","tag-development","tag-diet","tag-food","tag-health","tag-humour","tag-iceland","tag-ide","tag-information","tag-marriage","tag-medicine","tag-metabolic_syndrome","tag-programming","tag-society","tag-ui","tag-visualization","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","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=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}