{"id":111,"date":"2004-10-15T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T16:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2004-10-15T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T16:28:47","slug":"friday-is-time-wasting-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2004\/10\/15\/friday-is-time-wasting-day\/","title":{"rendered":"friday is time-wasting day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, a couple of time-wasters, since it&#8217;s Friday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/whafa\/whoseline-simmons.wmv\" title=\"It's all about the JetSki's\">a clip<\/a> from Whose Line is it Anyways that had me in tears.<\/li>\n<li>Next up is a <a href=\"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/whafa\/red-web.mpg\">flinch-inspiring video<\/a> of bike couriers as they pedal maniacally around Manhattan. This clip was originally reported via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memepool.com\/Date\/242\/\">October 8th<\/a> edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memepool.com\/\">memepool.com<\/a>, but downloading the video took almost four hours and I wanted to save you that pain. Should the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digave.com\" title=\"Downloading was like the ocean through a straw\">original hosters<\/a> of this vid find it here, please know that I&#8217;m trying to make it accessible, not steal it.<\/li>\n<li>An overview of how Spain is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/media\/2004\/04\/06\/video610577.wmv\">dealing with bank robbers<\/a> these days.<\/li>\n<li>Finally we have a nice Schoolhouse Rock kind of video drawing comparisons between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piratesandemperors.com\/\">pirates and emperors<\/a>, with an oh-so-subtle reference to that little government South of the 49th. Well done. The link to this came via the good folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\">BoingBoing<\/a>, still one of my favourite places to waste some time on any given day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, a couple of time-wasters, since it&#8217;s Friday. First, we have a clip from Whose Line is it Anyways that had me in tears. Next up is a flinch-inspiring video of bike couriers as they pedal maniacally around Manhattan. This clip was originally reported via the October 8th edition of memepool.com, but downloading the video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}