{"id":2256,"date":"2009-03-10T18:19:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T00:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/03\/10\/old-folks-wing-of-the-blogodome\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T00:19:55","slug":"old-folks-wing-of-the-blogodome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/10\/old-folks-wing-of-the-blogodome\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Folks Wing of the Blogodome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of February marked <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_archive.html\">five full years of blogging<\/a> for me.  And did anyone send me a cake?  No, they did not.<\/p>\n<p>After a half-decade, I can slack off a bit while I finish the book.  But here are some other goodies to keep you entertained on the internets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA few months ago, friend-of-the-blog George Musser from <em>Scientific American<\/em> visited us here in LA, and had some fascinating stories about the process of equipping his house with solar power.  We were like:  dude, that is totally bloggable.  And so it is!  George is telling his tale in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/blog\/60-second-solar\/\">a series of posts at the SciAm 60 Second Science site<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neuromech.northwestern.edu\/people\/\">Malcolm MacIver<\/a>, a versatile engineer\/philosopher\/neuroscientist at Northwestern University, also flew out to LA a short while back to help the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/11\/18\/seex\/\">Science and Entertainment Exchange<\/a> with a consultation for the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1104001\/\">sequel to <em>TRON<\/em><\/a>.  He is now blogging about the experience at Northwestern&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.scienceinsociety.northwestern.edu\/\">Science in Society<\/a> blog:  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.scienceinsociety.northwestern.edu\/2009\/02\/the-science-entertainment-exchange\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.scienceinsociety.northwestern.edu\/2009\/02\/the-science-entertainment-exchange-part-ii\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.scienceinsociety.northwestern.edu\/2009\/03\/the-science-entertainment-exchange-part-iii\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The 2008 edition of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/6110823\">The Open Laboratory<\/a><\/em>, collecting science blog posts from around the web, is now on sale.  Thanks to Bora Zivkovic and Jennifer Rohm for doing the heavy lifting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As always, use these threads to pimp out other things people should be reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of February marked five full years of blogging for me. And did anyone send me a cake? No, they did not. After a half-decade, I can slack off a bit while I finish the book. But here are some other goodies to keep you entertained on the internets: A few months ago, friend-of-the-blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}