{"id":284,"date":"2009-12-13T23:37:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T21:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/13\/what-i-learned-last-week-26\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T00:46:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T22:46:59","slug":"what-i-learned-last-week-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/13\/what-i-learned-last-week-26\/","title":{"rendered":"what i learned last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. the u.s. air force is buying 2200 sony playstation3&#8217;s to assemble a linux supercomputer<\/p>\n<p>2. the coriolis effect affects the trajectory of a bullet.<\/p>\n<p>3. better homes and gardens magazine makes about twice as much on advertising as it does on sales and subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>4. some of the proposed names for ethernet were &#8216;bulletin board&#8217;, &#8216;parliamentary procedure&#8217;, and (my favourite&#8230;) &#8216;lazy susan&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>5. for every finnish woman that dies of lung cancer, two swedish women, two norwegian women and three and a half danish women die of the same disease. denmark has the highest per-capita rate of lung cancer deaths in women of any country in the world.<\/p>\n<p>6. it takes only 6 mA of current going through your heart to kill you.<\/p>\n<p>7. the danish parliament is feckless. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20091210\/wl_asia_afp\/denmarkchinatibetdiplomacytrade_20091210172615\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8. canada&#8217;s parliament is no better. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2009\/12\/18\/climate-canada-award.html\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>9. hockey is bad for you. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/health\/story\/2009\/12\/18\/hockey-brain-condition-fleming.html\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10. only five works of art have sold for over $100,000,000. they are by pablo picasso, jackson pollock, willem de kooning, gustav klimt, and andy warhol. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. the u.s. air force is buying 2200 sony playstation3&#8217;s to assemble a linux supercomputer 2. the coriolis effect affects the trajectory of a bullet. 3. better homes and gardens magazine makes about twice as much on advertising as it does on sales and subscriptions. 4. some of the proposed names for ethernet were &#8216;bulletin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fluff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-4A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}