{"id":1329,"date":"2006-11-18T01:12:46","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T05:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2006-11-18T12:16:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T16:16:18","slug":"quelle-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"Quelle surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">S<\/span>o, <a id=\"p1330\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1330\" title=\"Uh-Oh, the aliens have returned!\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/v_needs_your_vote.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Uh-Oh, the aliens have returned!\" \/><\/a>yeah, just today, I found out that my blog was added to the list of <a href=\"http:\/\/cba.myblahg.com\/\">nominees for Best Sci\/Tech blog 2006<\/a>, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myblahg.com\">My Blahg<\/a>. In the same category, the competition consists of  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.larixconsulting.com\/\">A View From The Isle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambermac.typepad.com\/index.html\">Amber Mac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cre8asite.net\/bwelford\/\">BPWrap<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/science.easternblot.net\/\">Easternblot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/\">Gecko Boggle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/offthegrid.1337hax0r.com\/\">Off The Grid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penmachine.com\/\">Penmachine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staygolinks.com\/\">StayGoLinks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevensmac.com\/blog\/\">Stevensmac On Blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homelyscientist.com\/\">The Homely Scientist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca\/blogger.html\">The Other Bloke&#8217;s Blog<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/scq.ubc.ca\/filter\/\">The Filter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I have not read any of the blogs mentioned above, so maybe this weekend I might make some time to look around. Or, just as in politics, I could start &#8216;swiftboating&#8217; the frontrunners. Hell, yeah:<\/p>\n<p style=\"border:solid silver 1px;margin:10px;padding:10px;\">Amber is actually an alien from outer-space who, if you vote for her, will eat your kitty and hamster and kill every scientist in the world. The worst part is that this time Marc Singer won&#8217;t be there to save the world!<br \/> If you like <span style=\"text-decoration:blink\">kitties<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration:blink;\">hamsters<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration:blink\">scientists<\/span>, vote <u><a href=\"http:\/\/cba.myblahg.com\/\">xsamplex<\/a><\/u>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swiftboating\">Swiftboating<\/a> according to Wikipedia<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satire\">Satire<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, yeah, just today, I found out that my blog was added to the list of nominees for Best Sci\/Tech blog 2006, courtesy of My Blahg. In the same category, the competition consists of A View From The Isle, Amber &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1329\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}