{"id":180,"date":"2001-09-26T14:13:42","date_gmt":"2001-09-26T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2001-09-26T14:13:42","modified_gmt":"2001-09-26T19:13:42","slug":"went-to-bed-at-730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Went to bed at 7:30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to bed at 7:30 AM.&nbsp;  Can you say <i>depression<\/i>?&nbsp; Anyway, I wasted a big chunk of my life at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigidea.com\/penguins\/kids\/k_spacedpenguin.htm\">Spaced Penguin<\/a>, a fiendishly addictive game which I discovered at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogdex.media.mit.edu\/\" title=\"http:\/\/blogdex.media.mit.edu\/\"><tt>blogdex<\/tt><\/a>.&nbsp;  The idea behind blogdex is simple (though quite complicated to implement, I imagine); keep track of what URLs everybody is linking to.&nbsp;  Consider this detail from blogdex:&nbsp; The link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/SPECIALS\/2001\/trade.center\/damage.map.html\">cnn.com\/SPECIALS\/2001\/trade.center\/damage.map.html<\/a> scored 16.9 points.&nbsp; I have no idea what that means except that out of more than four hundred and fifty thousand links, only two other links scored higher.&nbsp;  And one of them was that miserable penguin game.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\nNow, if someone is keeping track of how many other websites have posted a given URL, well, I can&#8217;t help but wonder how my humble offering ranks.&nbsp;  It <a href=\"http:\/\/blogdex.media.mit.edu\/browseIndex.asp?idx=total&amp;url=http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog.htm\" title=\"blogdex's all time popular links list\">doesn&#8217;t<\/a>.&nbsp;  In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogdex.media.mit.edu\/linkSearch.asp?q=burgwinkel.com\" title=\"blogdex search for 'burgwinkel.com'\">this is all<\/a> they know &#8217;bout me.&nbsp;  So far.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhilst I make another cup o&#8217; joe, I encourage you to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogdex.media.mit.edu\/addSite.asp\">add your site<\/a> to their &#8216;bot &#8216;base.&nbsp;  You will be assimilated eventually anyway.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to bed at 7:30 AM.&nbsp; Can you say depression?&nbsp; Anyway, I wasted a big chunk of my life at Spaced Penguin, a fiendishly addictive game which I discovered at blogdex.&nbsp; The idea behind blogdex is simple (though quite complicated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=180\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[301,103],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-depression","tag-html"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}