{"id":3767,"date":"2002-12-31T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-31T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/12\/31\/the-universe-is-already-mad-anything-else-would-be-redundant\/"},"modified":"2002-12-31T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-31T21:39:00","slug":"the-universe-is-already-mad-anything-else-would-be-redundant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/12\/31\/the-universe-is-already-mad-anything-else-would-be-redundant\/","title":{"rendered":"The universe is already mad. Anything else would be redundant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The universe most definatly has a sense of humour, there is no longer any doubt about that at all. <\/p>\n<p>Today was not bad, started off well catching up with a couple of people. Had lunch with the same people and quite enjoyed it. Headed back to the office and did a little work before being sent off at 3. Good to catch up with some people.<\/p>\n<p>Good to get a couple of things out of the way too, I just hope it was not too late.<\/p>\n<p>Year in review? bollocks. I just could not be arsed. There were high points, there were low points. 2002 is over, bring on 2003.<\/p>\n<p>This is a pretty stunning concept.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bitworking.org\/Stigmergy.html\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Stigmergy and the World-Wide Web<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/djbtest12.blogspot.com\/www.evhead.com\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Evhead<\/a>)<br \/>\n&#8220;The World-Wide Web is human stigmergy. The web and it&#8217;s ability to let anyone read anything and also to write back to that environment allows stigmeric communication between humans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>stuff:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/2614477.stm\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Giant sea fossil unearthed<\/a><br \/>\nThe creature, which measures 20 metres (<b>65 ft<\/b>) from nose to tail, was discovered by German and Mexican palaeontologists. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-father30dec30,0,3481761.story?coll=la-headlines-nation-manual\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">A Grieving Dad Takes His Own Vengeance <\/a><br \/>\nYay vigilantes!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daypop.com\/redirect?id=13127394\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Dave Barry gets to the bottom of 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shift.com\/content\/10.5\/432\/2.html\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Key<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shift.com\/content\/10.5\/432\/1.html\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Stupid<\/a> web moments of 2002.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingforchange.com\/article.cfm?itemid=14297\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">The most overhyped and underreported<i> American<\/i> stories of the year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A49017-2002Dec28.html\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Requiem for the Pay Phone<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe most definatly has a sense of humour, there is no longer any doubt about that at all. Today was not bad, started off well catching up with a couple of people. Had lunch with the same people and quite enjoyed it. Headed back to the office and did a little work before being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/12\/31\/the-universe-is-already-mad-anything-else-would-be-redundant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The universe is already mad. Anything else would be redundant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}