{"id":789,"date":"2006-08-06T18:04:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T17:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=789"},"modified":"2008-07-19T03:30:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T02:30:34","slug":"a-few-thousand-science-fiction-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/06\/a-few-thousand-science-fiction-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"A few thousand science fiction covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krazydad.com\/visco\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/sf_covers.jpg\" alt=\"sf_covers.jpg\" id=\"image788\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seems that this has been around for a while but I&#8217;ve only just run across it. Jim Bumgardner has created a browsable &#8220;table-top&#8221; of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krazydad.com\/visco\/\" target=\"_blank\">thousands of sf magazine covers<\/a> using minimal Flash and Perl scripting; unlike many Flash-oriented web toys you don&#8217;t have to waste valuable minutes watching a progress bar before it starts working. Rest your mouse anywhere on the picture and a cover lifts itself from the mass; double-click that cover and it grows larger. He also has a similar page for covers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krazydad.com\/coverpop\/mad.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mad magazine<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krazydad.com\/coverpop\/\" target=\"_blank\">1001 graphic novels and comics<\/a>. And an explanation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krazydad.com\/visco\/howitworks.php\" target=\"_blank\">how it all works<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-book-covers-archive\/\">The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that this has been around for a while but I&#8217;ve only just run across it. Jim Bumgardner has created a browsable &#8220;table-top&#8221; of thousands of sf magazine covers using minimal Flash and Perl scripting; unlike many Flash-oriented web toys you don&#8217;t have to waste valuable minutes watching a progress bar before it starts working. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/06\/a-few-thousand-science-fiction-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A few thousand science fiction covers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[2,42,4,48,43,38,20],"tags":[7500,108],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-pulp","category-science-fiction","tag-mad-magazine","tag-web-toys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-cJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}