{"id":6818,"date":"2012-12-14T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6818"},"modified":"2012-12-15T05:07:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T13:07:21","slug":"things-that-arent-aroundwill-not-be-around-anymore-plus-friday-news-chum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6818","title":{"rendered":"Things That Aren&#8217;t Around\/Will Not Be Around Anymore, Plus Friday News Chum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4965\" alt=\"userpic=dr-george\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicdr-george.jpg\" width=\"73\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Today&#8217;s lunchtime news chum post is mostly about things that either aren&#8217;t around anymore, or are going away. But, as it is Friday, there are a few &#8220;clearing the links&#8221; items at the end&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Writing<\/strong>. What basically prompted this theme was a wonderful article from Mental Floss about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/156077\" target=\"_blank\">12 letters that didn&#8217;t make the alphabet<\/a>. Some of these I knew about, such as why &#8220;ye&#8221; was originally &#8220;\u00dee&#8221;, and was pronounced &#8220;the&#8221;, or the use of the long-s (\u017f) in phrases such as &#8220;the per\u017fute of happine\u017fs&#8221;. Others I didn&#8217;t know about, such as the origin of the &amp; (and why it is called &#8220;ampersand&#8221;), the yogh, the eth, and others.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Photography<\/strong>. An article I had noted in November but forgotten to post was about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2012\/11\/with-35mm-film-dead-will-classic-movies-ever-look-the-same-again\/265184\/\" target=\"_blank\">the effect of the death of 35mm film on classic motion pictures<\/a>. Basically, we&#8217;re losing the ability to make 35mm prints of films, meaning that many more obscure pictures may be lost forever, or may never be shown. Furthermore, the digital &#8220;restoration&#8221; is often off in some way from the original. In other film news, the bankruptcy of Kodak means that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/entertainment\/kodak-380590-disneyland-disney.html\" target=\"_blank\">those &#8220;Kodak picture spots&#8221; at Disney Theme Parks are going away<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Telephones<\/strong> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/415-area-code-near-full-628-on-the-way-4117497.php\" target=\"_blank\">SF Chronicle is reporting that a new area code overlay is coming to San Francisco: 628<\/a>. No more will 415 just mean &#8220;The City&#8221;. Of course, there are fewer and fewer of us who remember when there were only a few area codes in California: 213, 415, 714, 805, 916, 408, and perhaps one more I&#8217;m forgetting. Of course, 628 could become like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/LAs-Most-Exclusive-Area-Code-747-68666667.html\" target=\"_blank\">747, which has been in the Valley since 2009, but I&#8217;ve never seen a 747 number<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reading.<\/strong> Computerworld is already reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9234633\/Last_chapter_for_e_readers_?source=rss_keyword_edpicks&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+computerworld%2Fs%2Ffeed%2Fkeyword%2FEditorsPicks+%28Computerworld+Editors%27+Picks%29&amp;google_editors_picks=true\" target=\"_blank\">the tablet may be killing the dedicated e-Reader<\/a>, just as its multipurpose sibling the smartphone put the dedicated music player (I loves me my iPod Classic, I do) on life support. I personally like single-purpose devices: I want my phone to be for communication; I want me music player to be for playing music; I want a camera that is a camera; I want an e-reader to read books. But I&#8217;m also old, and all my Ss look like Fs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brain Food. <\/strong>I meant to post this with <a title=\"Thinking Healthy\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6816\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>, but the link was a work. Evidently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-505145_162-57558579\/need-your-brain-this-food-can-make-you-dumber\/\" target=\"_blank\">eating too much fructose can make it harder to think<\/a>. According to research by UCLA biology professor Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, binging on soda, candy and sugary snacks for as little as six weeks may reduce brain function. The study, which was conducted on rats, is the first to show that a diet high in fructose slows the brain, which hampers memory and learning. The article fails to note they wanted to conduct the experiment on UCLA students, but they couldn&#8217;t find a control group.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Junk Food<\/strong>. Things that make you go &#8220;huh?&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/food\/dailydish\/la-dd-food-fyi-pepsi-chicken-chips-20121213,0,6812062.story\" target=\"_blank\">Pepsi-Cola and Chicken flavored Potato Chips<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thinks You Need to Know<\/strong>. Did you ever wonder why . . . \u2013\u00a0\u2013 \u2013 . . . (better known as &#8220;SOS&#8221;) became an international emergency code? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/156122\" target=\"_blank\">Wonder no more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And lastly, I wrote about <a title=\"Furious News Chum: Hostages, Logos, and Sex\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6811\" target=\"_blank\">the updated UC logo earlier this week<\/a>. Well, it has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/culture\/la-et-cm-new-uc-logo-deserves-catcalls-20121214,0,3513250.story?track=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CultureMonster+%28Culture+Monster%29\" target=\"_blank\">suspended from use<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s lunchtime news chum post is mostly about things that either aren&#8217;t around anymore, or are going away. But, as it is Friday, there are a few &#8220;clearing the links&#8221; items at the end&#8230;. Writing. What basically prompted this theme was a wonderful article from Mental Floss about 12 letters that didn&#8217;t make the alphabet. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6818\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,117,56],"tags":[166,289],"class_list":["post-6818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-history","category-news-chum","tag-telephony","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6830,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}