{"id":1474,"date":"2007-04-19T22:10:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T01:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2007-10-06T09:54:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T12:54:55","slug":"the-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"The trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>lfons <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1475' rel='attachment wp-att-1475' title='Cancer and Google Trends'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/trends_can_cer.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Cancer and Google Trends' \/><\/a>linked to a PDF that contains the <a href=\"http:\/\/imslp.org\/wiki\/The_Unanswered_Question_%28Ives%2C_Charles_Edward%29\">musical score of Ives&#8217; &#8216;The Unanswered Question&#8217;<\/a>. I can&#8217;t link to it right from here (I get a dreaded message saying something about &#8220;This is the second IMSLP image server&#8221;) but it should be around the previous hyperlink. That said, I&#8217;ve not seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/imslp.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">IMSLP site<\/a> before, so if you&#8217;re into transcribing music with (for example) your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roland.com\/products\/en\/SonicCell\/index.html\">SonicCell<\/a>&#8230; think of me. (And before you click that SonicCell link: no: I don&#8217;t get paid for that. I just have good memories when I think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?s=SCC&#038;searchsubmit=Go\">Roland soundcards<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<p>I was following the grilling of Gonzales and was particularly stunned by the reaction of Sen. Schumer (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QcLHO-fDsoE&#038;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etpmmuckraker%2Ecom%2Farchives%2F003055%2Ephp\">video 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b07BJXppO_o&#038;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etpmmuckraker%2Ecom%2Farchives%2F003055%2Ephp\">video 2<\/a>) upon hearing some of Gonzales questions. Disbelief (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/60435\/I-have-no-recollection-of-remembering-that-recollection\">metafilter thread<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>And then, for no particular reason, I decided to look up Google Trends for &#8216;cancer&#8217; and noticed that there was no spectacular increase of searches for that particular word. Both my (our) parents died of cancer and yet, there is no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/year\/2007\/feature-photography\/works\/byer01_jpg.html\">cure for this disease<\/a> (note: photos might be heart-rendering). Well, maybe there, is but <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/business\/news\/article2466073.ece\">then I read<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">(the) Antisoma&#8217;s chief executive, said he was &#8220;very confident this would be a <strong>blockbuster<\/strong> product with the potential for strong sales&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I just picked out the wrong quote. Yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfons linked to a PDF that contains the musical score of Ives&#8217; &#8216;The Unanswered Question&#8217;. I can&#8217;t link to it right from here (I get a dreaded message saying something about &#8220;This is the second IMSLP image server&#8221;) but it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1474\">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":[11],"tags":[150,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"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=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}