{"id":356,"date":"2007-07-11T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T15:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2007-07-11T10:05:37","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T15:05:37","slug":"the-doo-dah-news-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"The Doo-Dah News Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t even tangentially related to science fiction, other than the fact that it uses a computer and illustrates the vast power of the Internet.  As nearly as I can tell, the vast power of the Internet is more or less entirely centered around conferring unlimited opportunities to be silly.<\/p>\n<p>The Doo-Dah News Generator monitors worldwide news feeds and displays those headlines that can be sung to the tune of &#8220;Camptown Races&#8221; if you add &#8220;Doo-Dah&#8221; to the end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prince Cleared to Extend Retreat&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Papers Ponder Marriage Perks&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Al Gore&#8217;s Son Released from Jail&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s oddly soothing.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/badgods.com\/doodahnews.html\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t even tangentially related to science fiction, other than the fact that it uses a computer and illustrates the vast power of the Internet. As nearly as I can tell, the vast power of the Internet is more or less entirely centered around conferring unlimited opportunities to be silly. The Doo-Dah News Generator monitors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}