{"id":1569,"date":"2011-04-26T12:51:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2011-04-26T12:59:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:59:58","slug":"information-at-your-fingertips-with-this-cloudeight-site-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/information-at-your-fingertips-with-this-cloudeight-site-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Information at your fingertips with this Cloudeight site pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OK, how many of you don’t need information once in a while, \t\t\t\traise your hands. OK. The only hand I see raised is EB’s. I \t\t\t\texpected that. But for the rest of us, we all need (and \t\t\t\tsometimes like) information. After all we’re all living on the \t\t\t\ttree lawn of the Information Highway! Yep, that’s us, sitting \t\t\t\tthere under the sprawling oak tree, swigging down a lemonade and \t\t\t\twatching the information go by.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, if you need information, you should consider this week’s \t\t\t\tSite Of The Week, Infoplease. Because it’s full of useful \t\t\t\tinformation that you can really use. If you’re not sure of what \t\t\t\tyou need you can browse around for tidbits and expand your mind \t\t\t\t– and fill it full of useful and useless information. That keeps \t\t\t\tthose of us with empty heads from allowing our empty heads to \t\t\t\tremain completely empty. Now, if you’re EB and your head is \t\t\t\talready full of useless information, perhaps InfoPlease is not \t\t\t\tfor you \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

So, before I go down that verbose highway that you all love so \t\t\t\tmuch, let me just say, I’m trying to change my ways. I want to \t\t\t\tbe known as concise not verbose – although I realize that that \t\t\t\tis not going to happen in my lifetime. Perhaps when I’m dead and \t\t\t\tgone people will look back and think how concise I really was…<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that being said, this is what the site developers have to \t\t\t\tsay about InfoPlease:<\/span><\/p>\n

“…Infoplease is a comprehensive reference source that combines the \t\tcontents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several \t\talmanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. A single \t\tsearch engine allows you to search all these sources at once….”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Now, you talk about concise. In my dreams I would be so concise!<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t worry, I’m done prattling now. Except to warn you that \t\t\t\tthis site does seem to love popups, albeit innocent ones. Still, \t\t\t\tyou need to be aware of it, and a decent popup blocker (the ones \t\t\t\tthat come with Internet Explorer and Firefox should suffice) is \t\t\t\tin order when you do visit this site to harvest its goodies.<\/p>\n

Now see? No prattling! You can visit this week’s <\/em> Site Of The Week<\/a> called: “Infoplease<\/a>” \t\t\t\tand fill-up that empty brain tank with lots of new information. \t\t\t\tOr, seriously, you can use this week’s Site Of The Week to look \t\t\t\tup lots of things you might want or need to know.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yippee! Prattling over!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, how many of you don’t need information once in a while, raise your hands. OK. The only hand I see raised is EB’s. I expected that. But for the rest of us, we all need (and sometimes like) information. After all we’re all living on the tree lawn of the Information Highway! Yep, that’s us, sitting there\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}