{"id":1236,"date":"2007-03-14T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/14\/a-bracket-for-everything-and-e\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T10:28:10","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T10:28:10","slug":"a-bracket-for-everything-and-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/14\/a-bracket-for-everything-and-e\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bracket for Everything, and Everything In Its Bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posting has been basketball-heavy of late because, well, there isn&#8217;t much else going on that I find all that interesting at the moment. More importantly, though, it&#8217;s the Season of the Bracket&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the only one affected, of course, though many people who don&#8217;t care about hoops have to find other outlets for the impulse to construct match-ups between various concepts, and arrange them in a single elimination tournament:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Locally, there&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/worldsfair\/2007\/03\/science_spring_showdown_2007_t.php\">Science Spring Showdown<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be announcing the first-round winners in the &#8220;Orbit&#8221; bracket on Friday, and while my decisions are final, they are prone to be swayed by offers of generous research funding, or just particularly clever blog comments.<\/li>\n<li>For the more literarily inclined, Fantasybookspot is running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasybookspot.com\/node\/1664\">pair of tournaments<\/a>, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasybookspot.com\/forum\/viewforum.php?f=56\">Best Speculative Fiction of 2006<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasybookspot.com\/forum\/viewforum.php?f=57\">Best Speculative Fiction of All Time<\/a>. Vote in comments.<\/li>\n<li>If those seem interesting, but a little too coherent, Slate offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2161655\/\">enlightened bracketology<\/a>, in which you can attempt to determine the greatest marital argument ever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are others out there. If I&#8217;ve missed anything good, drop a link in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posting has been basketball-heavy of late because, well, there isn&#8217;t much else going on that I find all that interesting at the moment. More importantly, though, it&#8217;s the Season of the Bracket&#8230; I&#8217;m not the only one affected, of course, though many people who don&#8217;t care about hoops have to find other outlets for the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/14\/a-bracket-for-everything-and-e\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Bracket for Everything, and Everything In Its Bracket<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18,37,11,29,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-books","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-sf","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}