{"id":33,"date":"2004-05-12T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=33"},"modified":"2004-05-12T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T19:01:00","slug":"orkut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Orkut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, Google is driving me nuts. First I salivate over Gmail, finally<br \/>getting in during the third or fourth wave of beta testers, and now I<br \/>stumble over a reference to a new in-testing &#8220;social networking&#8221;<br \/>service called Orkut. I&#8217;m such a dweeb that I _at once_ want to join<br \/>the Borg Collective (blog collective?) but&#8230; the way the system is<br \/>set up, you have to be invited to join by someone who knows you. Since<br \/>I disconnected from my old Pagan world back in &#8217;93 or so, I really<br \/>haven&#8217;t had many friends. 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I&#8217;m such a dweeb that I _at once_ want to jointhe Borg Collective (blog collective?) but&#8230; the way the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=33\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orkut&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sgY3e-orkut","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":72,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=72","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":0},"title":"orkut","author":"Jorah","date":"July 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"orkut - help Anyone who knows me, who is part of orkut who would mind inviting me?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Post&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?cat=30"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":975,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=975","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":1},"title":"the first lace cuff has gone missing","author":"Jorah","date":"March 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I discovered last night that the first cuff I finished is now missing in action. 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