{"id":18,"date":"2005-12-21T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2005-12-21T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T17:15:00","slug":"bits-and-bytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"bits and bytes &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It&#8217;s the end of the year, and you know what that means &#8230; best of lists! If you have, submit one in the comments. I&#8217;ll pull the best ones into the main post.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by Crispy, a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/avclub.com\/content\/node\/43475\">2005 albums you should know about<\/a>. I know of none of them (besides iron and wine because of their presence on the garden state soundtrack), but plan to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Shannen didn&#8217;t submit, but will enjoy, <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.reuters.com\/Pictures\/galleries\/showcases\/showcase_slide.asp?storyID=632702912668906250&#038;urlStr=\/pictures\/&#038;directory=\/configData\/Pictures\/&#038;edition=US\">Reuters top photos of 2005<\/a>.  She&#8217;ll be in there next year ;).<\/p>\n<p>Blogs are a new media form for me, but others have been at it a while.  <a href=\"http:\/\/2005.bloggies.com\/\">The 2005 Bloggies<\/a> are awarded to the best blogs out there, and give us something to aspire to.<\/p>\n<p>The Webbies have been around longer, and are given to the best, neatest, most different websites out there each year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webbyawards.com\/webbys\/current.php\">2005<\/a> is no exception.  Worth checking out too.<\/p>\n<p>Google puts together a &#8220;zeitgeist&#8221; feature each week, indicating what search terms are more or less popular each week. The strangest things pop up there. They&#8217;ve pulled that all together into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/press\/zeitgeist2005.html\">2005 Year End Zeitgeist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And this is just a link I found that will be right up Shannen and Sean&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.crimelibrary.com\">dark and scary alley<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Update: Trent chimed in with a comment via email:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fimoculous.com\/year-review-2005.cfm\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a  link to all the best of lists I could find for your website.   Found it on www.Gorillamask.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the end of the year, and you know what that means &#8230; best of lists! If you have, submit one in the comments. I&#8217;ll pull the best ones into the main post. Submitted by Crispy, a list of 2005 albums you should know about. I know of none of them (besides iron and wine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}