{"id":208,"date":"2024-09-17T21:27:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/17\/three-awesome-review-sites-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-technology\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T21:36:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:36:14","slug":"three-awesome-review-sites-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/17\/three-awesome-review-sites-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Three awesome review sites that have nothing to do with technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>File these under &#8220;the kind of sites you&#8217;d hope to land on while clicking through StumbleUpon in the late aughts.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afoolzerrand.com\">Afoolzerrand<\/a>: An extensive database of chocolate milk reviews. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afoolzerrand.com\/home\/alpenrose-swiss-supreme-chocolate-milk-1\">Alpenrose Swiss Supreme Chocolate Milk<\/a>: <em>&#8220;Much more sweet than chocolaty and has a beefy yet accessible 6% base&#8211; which pays dividends in the highly satisfying afterglow.&#8221;<\/em> 9.5 out of 10.) Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naiveweekly.com\/p\/naive-yearly-4ab\">Naive Weekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/applerankings.com\">AppleRankings<\/a>: As in, the fruit. (<a href=\"https:\/\/applerankings.com\/red-delicious-apple-review\/\">Red Delicious<\/a>: <em>&#8220;Nowadays, you can find this thick-skinned, flavorless, mealy imposter unwashed in a dirty wicker basket on the floor of a convenience store.&#8221;<\/em> 25 out of 100.) Via <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/mhwilliams.bsky.social\/post\/3l37b7omwgv2l\">M.H. Williams on BlueSky<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themixreview.org\/\">The Mix Review<\/a>: Excessively granular analyses of modern pop songs. (<a href=\"https:\/\/themixreview.org\/reviews\/please-please-please\/\">&#8220;Please Please Please&#8221; by Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>: <em>&#8220;By changing the key of the second verse, the music rouses us listeners from our complacency with a jolt of novelty, but without any risk of rendering the verse\u2019s underlying musical content less memorable.&#8221;<\/em>) Found searching the web for &#8220;please please please modulation&#8221; because I was wondering if anyone else appreciated it, while also wishing someone had bestowed similar love upon the crunchy altered secondary dominant chord in &#8220;Feather.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File these under &#8220;the kind of sites you&#8217;d hope to land on while clicking through StumbleUpon in the late aughts.&#8221; Afoolzerrand: An extensive database of chocolate milk reviews. (Alpenrose Swiss Supreme Chocolate Milk: &#8220;Much more sweet than chocolaty and has a beefy yet accessible 6% base&#8211; which pays dividends in the highly satisfying afterglow.&#8221; 9.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-esoterica","tag-tab-dump","h-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}