{"id":1642,"date":"2005-10-08T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2005-10-08T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T18:26:00","slug":"1642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1642","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Linkpharm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.invisible-city.com\/\">Invisbile City<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semapedia.org\/\">Semapedia<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Using Semacode Nodes, real-world objects such as a museum, a statue or anything that exists in the real-world and which happens to have a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikipedia.org<\/a> article written will be tagged with their according Wikipedia article URL.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In theory, I think it&#8217;s a pretty interesting idea. In practice&#8230;well, I&#8217;m sure results will vary, but right now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/semapedia\/\">it looks<\/a> mostly like pieces of printer paper taped to buildings and statues, where they probably won&#8217;t survive a light rain or heavy wind, if they aren&#8217;t taken down almost immediately by the people who own those buildings and statues.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\">Backwards City<\/a>, a new law in Indiana that would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2005\/10\/3\/213554\/300\">require marriage as a legal condition of motherhood<\/a> and the Bible as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,13509-1811332,00.html\" title=\"Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible\">well kinda-sorta-maybe true word of God<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawker.com\/\">Gawker<\/a>, the frightening prospect of Amy Sedaris <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kittenpants.org\/daily\/092605.asp\">as the voice of a talking penis<\/a> and proof there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamist.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/27\/bad_sign.php\">worse places to live<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a>, guided urban and rural tours <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otherworldexcursions.com\/\" title=\"Otherworld Excursions\">run by role-playing game designers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/images\/wowdanddad.jpg\">roleplaying games as socializing tools<\/a>, some rather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/articles\/20050924\/fob5.asp\" title=\"Balls of Fire: Bees carefully cook invaders to death\"><i>anti<\/i>-social honeybees<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=mg18725165.200&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\" title=\"Ant logic makes sense in space\">smart spacecraft skin<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.blogsome.com\/\">public domain books read aloud<\/a>, and the possibility that a world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8054&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\" title=\"Robot claims 'treasure island' booty\">robot pirates<\/a> may not be too far off.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/links\/\">Waxy Links<\/a>, a couple of music links with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wfmu.org\/freeform\/2005\/09\/van_morrisons_c.html\">Van Morrison&#8217;s Contractual Obligation Album<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepartyparty.com\/\">the party party<\/a>, where you&#8217;ll find mp3 mashups of George W. Bush singing hits like &#8220;White Lines&#8221; by Grandmaster Flash and &#8220;Sunday Bloody Sunday&#8221; by U2.<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/maximumverbosit.blogspot.com\/\">Maximum Verbosity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trademe.co.nz\/Electronics-photography\/Other\/auction-36725938.htm\">an unfinished time machine for sale<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/bookslut.com\/blog\/\">Bookslut<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2005\/20050905\/stupid-utopias-a.shtml\">the ten stupidest utopias<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/games\/0,2101,68821,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2\">books based on video games<\/a> (which I think I was hitherto unaware existed), some great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsmcmeel.com\/calvinandhobbes\/interview.html\" title=\"Fans From Around the World Interview Bill Watterson\">questions and answers with Bill Watterson<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/map.php\">national poetry map<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\">Warren Ellis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_1558705.html\">brothers fined for keeping &#8216;pet ghost&#8217;<\/a><sup>2<\/sup> and <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.net.au\/science\/news\/stories\/s1473208.htm\" title=\"Dolphins sing 'Batman' theme\">dolphins taught to sing the <i>Batman<\/i> theme<\/a>. On the off chance that these are the same ones thought to have been <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,1577753,00.html\">let loose by Hurrican Katrina<\/a><sup>3<\/sup>, maybe <i>they<\/i> tried to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/archives\/2005_10_01_index.html#112862910580892403\">burn down stately Wayne Manor<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/blog\/blog.asp\">William Gibson<\/a> a 1946 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Despotis1946\">film on despotism<\/a>. See how many parallels you can find to today&#8217;s America! Or let <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Aaron_J\">someone else<\/a> do it for you. (Note, I couldn&#8217;t get that second clip to play, but then again, Real Player does suck.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/wiredblogs.tripod.com\/sterling\/\">Bruce Sterling<\/a>, news of a virus that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/09\/05\/smut_censoring_trojan\/\">disrupts visits to pornographic websites by displaying messages from the Koran<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/mumpsimus.blogspot.com\">the Mumpsimus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spikemagazine.com\/free-new-books\/\">free new books<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\">Mark Evanier<\/a>, some of Tom Lehrer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haverford.edu\/physics-astro\/songs\/lehrer\/physrev.htm\">earliest works<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsChannel.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews\">Reuters Oddly Enough<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/go.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyID=9629694&#038;src=rss\/oddlyEnoughNews\">Bruce Lee as symbol of unity in Bosnian town<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/go.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyID=9693618&#038;src=rss\/oddlyEnoughNews\">psychopaths as the best finanacial traders<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>And from I really don&#8217;t remember where, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2005\/09\/19\/proof\">Is Gwyneth Paltrow a Genius?<\/a>, exploring the mathematics of the new movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0377107\/\"><i>Proof<\/i><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.rit.edu\/%7Emaa2454\/SCIFI\/sci_lit.html\">Islam in Sci-fi Literature<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"1\"><sup>1<\/sup>If you really like this sort of thing, there&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionaraoke.org\/\">Dictionaraoke<\/a>.<br \/><sup>2<\/sup>I worry this is just a misprint and that it was actually a pet <i>goat<\/i>. Of course, there&#8217;s probably a <a href=\"http:\/\/s89194761.onlinehome.us\/goatquotes.htm\">George W. Bush joke in that<\/a> somewhere&#8230;<br \/><sup>3<\/sup>Turns out, that story <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/9503310\/\">might not have been true<\/a> after all.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linkpharm: From Invisbile City, Semapedia: Using Semacode Nodes, real-world objects such as a museum, a statue or anything that exists in the real-world and which happens to have a Wikipedia.org article written will be tagged with their according Wikipedia article URL. In theory, I think it&#8217;s a pretty interesting idea. In practice&#8230;well, I&#8217;m sure results &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1642\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}