{"id":1651,"date":"2010-05-05T07:45:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2010-05-05T10:04:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:04:33","slug":"random-notes-may-5-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":"Random notes: May 5, 2010."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blag.xkcd.com\/2010\/05\/03\/color-survey-results\/\">results of the XKCD color name survey<\/a> have been blogged in many places, but I haven&#8217;t seen anyone pick up on this yet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A couple dozen people embedded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xkcd.com\/327\/\">SQL \u2018drop table\u2019 statements<\/a> in the color  names. Nice try, kids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My faith in humanity is temporarily restored.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back at the ranch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/05\/us\/05bullhorn.html?ref=todayspaper\">Harvey Milk&#8217;s bullhorn<\/a>, and the <strong>NYT<\/strong> finally picks up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/05\/dining\/05white.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;pagewanted=all\">&#8220;new moonshine&#8221; trend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the <strong>NYT<\/strong>: CBS was losing so much money on the NCAA basketball tournament, they actually considered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/05\/sports\/ncaabasketball\/05cbs.html?hpw\">paying ESPN<\/a> to take over broadcast rights. I&#8217;ve wondered for a while now if the current model of payments for sporting events rights can be sustained; this is more evidence that the answer is &#8220;No&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Obit watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/05\/sports\/baseball\/05harwell.html?hpw\">Ernie Harwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add: Patrick Beach, one of the <strong>Statesman<\/strong>&#8216;s best writers, interviews Dan Aykroyd about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/food-drink\/beer-wine-spirits\/dan-aykroyd-and-the-vodka-of-the-crystal-668901.html\">Crystal Head vodka<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The juice is made with Canadian wheat and corn (the latter giving it a  suggestion of sweetness), with water from the glacial aquifers of  Newfoundland. It&#8217;s quadruple distilled, then filtered through charcoal  and Herkimer diamonds \u2014 quartz crystals, actually, from upstate New  York. It&#8217;s also certified kosher.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there&#8217;s <strong>non<\/strong>-kosher vodka? What do they do; filter it through pig intestines?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the XKCD color name survey have been blogged in many places, but I haven&#8217;t seen anyone pick up on this yet: A couple dozen people embedded SQL \u2018drop table\u2019 statements in the color names. Nice try, kids. My faith in humanity is temporarily restored. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Harvey Milk&#8217;s bullhorn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12,15,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-geek","category-mixology","category-obits","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}