{"id":1838,"date":"2008-06-30T21:01:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2008-07-27T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T16:09:42","slug":"a-suffering-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1838","title":{"rendered":"A suffering object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>n assortment<a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1839' rel=\"attachment wp-att-1839\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/a_voorwe_rp-150x107.jpg\" alt=\"A feeling that something is weird\" title=\"A Voorwerp\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1839\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/a_voorwe_rp-150x107.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/a_voorwe_rp-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/a_voorwe_rp.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> of links, or as my English-speaking portion of my brain prefers to call them: a &#8216;whole bunch of I-forgets&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>A while ago, a Dutch teacher discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&#038;story_id=11614176\">a weird object<\/a> in the constellation of &#8216;Leo Minor&#8217;. Thanks to the discovery, it looks like that the Dutch word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galaxyzooblog.org\/2008\/03\/20\/voorwerp-fever\/\">&#8216;Voorwerp&#8217;<\/a> is going to be the <em>next<\/em> famous Dutch word (The other word of course being &#8216;apartheid&#8217;). The word itself reminds me of long and repetitive Dutch grammar classes and yes that particular part, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dutch_grammar\">&#8216;lijdend&#8217; voorwerp<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Talking about &#8216;suffering objects&#8217;, what can I say about the Conservapedia vs. Lenski spat? Not much, considering <em>ArsTechnica<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/articles\/culture\/conservapedias-evolutionary-foibles.ars\/1\">excellent breakdown<\/a> of, well, the breakdown of Conservapedia? Too much spare time. Additional bonus: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/info\/6pkrg\/comments\/\">Reddit thread<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Slashdot reports that Microsoft released the specifications for <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/developers\/08\/06\/30\/1942211.shtml\">pre-2007 Office file formats<\/a>. And here I was thinking that I&#8217;ve read about this before (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1764\">earlier on xsamplex<\/a>). On the good side, that is if you feel obliged, go hack at the fileformat. This also reminds me of a website that discusses several other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schnarff.com\/file-formats\/index.html\">well-known binary formats<\/a>, including PDF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assortment of links, or as my English-speaking portion of my brain prefers to call them: a &#8216;whole bunch of I-forgets&#8217;. A while ago, a Dutch teacher discovered a weird object in the constellation of &#8216;Leo Minor&#8217;. Thanks to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1838\">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":[128,208,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838"}],"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=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}