{"id":4774,"date":"2010-02-09T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4774"},"modified":"2010-02-09T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T08:00:44","slug":"we-love-xkcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4774","title":{"rendered":"We Love xkcd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, someone <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3948\">animated<\/a> the xkcd <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/442\/\">cartoon<\/a> that celebrated the boom-de-yada song<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a bit of life imitates art &#8211; imitates life-imitates art-imitates life,  (does surreal come in layers,or are they orthogonal dimensions?) we have a collection of people of varying degrees of celebrity in the science and tech world (I recognized Bruce Schneier and Phil Plait, despite being a bit bleary-eyed) singing it, mostly off-key.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KQAk_T9SBbw?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KQAk_T9SBbw?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, someone animated the xkcd cartoon that celebrated the boom-de-yada song Now, in a bit of life imitates art &#8211; imitates life-imitates art-imitates life, (does surreal come in layers,or are they orthogonal dimensions?) we have a collection of people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4774\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}