{"id":15413,"date":"2010-01-04T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/01\/04\/how-many-sides-are-there-to-a-snowflake-the-answer-may-surprise-your-marketing-department\/"},"modified":"2010-01-04T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T07:00:01","slug":"how-many-sides-are-there-to-a-snowflake-the-answer-may-surprise-your-marketing-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100104-01\/?p=15413","title":{"rendered":"How many sides are there to a snowflake? The answer may surprise your marketing department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Joe McManis runs the <a href=\"http:\/\/snowflakefail.wordpress.com\/\"> Snowflake Fail<\/a> blog, which chronicles the various places non-hexagonal snowflakes are found in <strike>nature<\/strike> marketing. <\/p>\n<p> Bonus snowflake failage: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121827582\">     What&#8217;s Wrong With This Snowflake?<\/a>     covers     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2009\/dec\/23\/christmas-card-snowflakes-nature-physics\">     Nature magazine&#8217;s uses of octagonal snowflakes on their own Web site<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/IT-Infrastructure\/HP-Looks-to-Nature-for-Data-Center-of-the-Future\/\">     HP takes datacenter topology inspiration from snowflakes<\/a>     but nobody told     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hp.com\/\">     the people who designed their home page<\/a>,     who decided that snowflakes should have seven sides,     sometimes eight.     I wonder if their data centers still work. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe McManis runs the Snowflake Fail blog, which chronicles the various places non-hexagonal snowflakes are found in nature marketing. Bonus snowflake failage: What&#8217;s Wrong With This Snowflake? covers Nature magazine&#8217;s uses of octagonal snowflakes on their own Web site. HP takes datacenter topology inspiration from snowflakes but nobody told the people who designed their home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-15413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Joe McManis runs the Snowflake Fail blog, which chronicles the various places non-hexagonal snowflakes are found in nature marketing. Bonus snowflake failage: What&#8217;s Wrong With This Snowflake? covers Nature magazine&#8217;s uses of octagonal snowflakes on their own Web site. HP takes datacenter topology inspiration from snowflakes but nobody told the people who designed their home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}