{"id":1673,"date":"2005-10-30T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2005-10-30T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T02:51:00","slug":"1673","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Linkpharm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Words:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eggcorns.lascribe.net\/\">The Eggcorn Database<\/a>, &#8220;unusual spellings of a particular kind&#8230;.a word or part of a word [that] is  semantically reanalyzed, and the spelling reflects the new interpretation&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Backwards City\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyID=10036250&#038;src=rss\/oddlyEnoughNews\">Court enforces letter of the  law<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A Turkish court fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law banning  characters not used in the Turkish alphabet&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not just your Ps and Qs you have to mind, I guess.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/content\/articles\/050829ta_talk_alford\">Hunting for fake words in the <i>OED<\/i><\/a> [<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/geoff_chaucer\/7400.html\">Lyrics from the <i>Shaft<\/i> theme translated to Chaucerian English<\/a> [<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdn.com\/articles\/2005\/10\/24\/area_news\/news06.txt\">Worst lead of the year?<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>It looks like something a person might say  after splashing through the chilly waters of the Pacific Ocean &#8212; &#8220;Cthulhu.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is pretty lame all right.<sup><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#103005lp2\">2<\/a><\/sup> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Lists_of_fictional_characters\">Lists of fictional characters<\/a> [<a  href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Backwards City\">via<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinkworks.com\/fnovel\/\">The Fantasy Novelist&#8217;s Exam<\/a>  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdn.com\/articles\/2005\/10\/24\/area_news\/news06.txt\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Tarrantino meets Socrates: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/afs\/athena.mit.edu\/user\/d\/r\/dryfoo\/www\/Funny-pages\/republic-dogs.html\"><i>Republic Dogs<\/i><\/a><sup><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#103005lp3\">3<\/sup><\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/\" title=\"Marking  Light\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/enjoyment.independent.co.uk\/books\/features\/article315207.ece\">Weird and wonderful vocabulary from around the  world<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/\" title=\"Neil Gaiman\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pictures:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coverpop.com\/index.php?pop=mad\">Mad Magazine Explorer<\/a>: thousands of covers [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing  Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/accordionguy.blogware.com\/Photos\/2005\/10\/shes_goth_to_have_it.jpg\">Betty and Veronica go goth<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\"  title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doonesbury.com\/strip\/miers.html\"><i>Doonesbury<\/i>: When Good Strips Go Bad<\/a> &#8212; think of it as a view into an alternate universe  where Harriet Miers <i>didn&#8217;t<\/i> withdraw her name from consideration as a Supreme Court nominee [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\" title=\"Mark  Evanier\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/yakov.com\/giftshop\/paintings\/default.asp\">art of Yakov Smirnoff<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/avclub.com\/content\/\" title=\"The Onion AV  Club\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re made out of meat<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#103005lp4\">4<\/a><\/sup>: <a  href=\"http:\/\/machineanimalcollages.com\/Menus\/MeatScapesMenu.html\">Machine Animal Collage<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing  Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allmenlikebirdsmustdie.com\/forward\/blog.html\">All Men Like Birds Must Die<\/a>, sketchblog of illustrator <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.youyesyou.net\/\">Jason Sho Green<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/sleepingjpb\/\" title=\"Jeremy\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Video:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice-recordings.com\/halloween\/halloween_big.mov\">Do They Know it&#8217;s Halloween?<\/a><sup><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#103005lp1\">1<\/a><\/sup> (Quicktime) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice-recordings.com\/halloween\/\">more info<\/a>) [<a  href=\"waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thatvideosite.com\/view\/1029.html\">Hip-hop Yoda<\/a> (Windows Media) [<a href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Backwards  City\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2005_10_26.html#010516\">Archive of American Television interviews<\/a> with the likes of Walter Cronkite,  Ossie Davis, and Carl Reiner<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/drivetime.ravijain.org\/\">DriveTime<\/a>, Ravi Jain&#8217;s weekly video blog from the driver&#8217;s seat of his car during his daily commutes  (Quicktime) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteboydj.com\/babygotbook.html\">&#8220;Baby Got Book&#8221;<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>More religion:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devoted1.com\/\">iBelieve<\/a> &#8212; Can you use it to listen to anything except psalms? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/\"  title=\"Neil Gaiman\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.preservedwords.com\/charts.htm\">Clarence Larkin dispensational charts<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/sleepingjpb\/\"  title=\"Jeremy\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Other:\n<ul>\n<li>Soylent yarn is people: <a href=\"http:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/crafts\/knit-gallery.html\">how to knit DNA<\/a> (scroll down to the bottom) and <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.craftster.org\/forum\/index.php?topic=60206.0\">a knitted human digestive system<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing  Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2128755\/?nav=tap3\">The Brontosaurus: Monty Python&#8217;s flying creationism<\/a><sup><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#103005lp5\">5<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/28\/nyregion\/28odor.html\"><a name=\"goodsmell\">Good Smell Perplexes New Yorkers<\/a><\/a> &#8212; I thought I smelled  something myself Friday morning at work. That was before I&#8217;d read the story, so I doubt it was the power of suggestion. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawker.com\/\"  title=\"Gawker\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civanon.com\/home.shtml\">Civilization Anonymous<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinxia.com\/afap\/\" title=\"Angels from Another  Pin\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eathufu.com\/home.asp\">Hufu<\/a>, &#8220;designed to resemble, as humanly possible, the taste and texture of human flesh.&#8221; [<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/shows\/the_daily_show\/index.jhtml\" title=\"The Daily Show\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8209\">Elephants may pay homage to dead relatives<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\"  title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=4019597\">Kentucky lands grant to protect bingo halls from terrorists<\/a> [<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Homo Sum\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalekcity.co.uk\/\">How to build a working Dalek<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2005\/10\/1013_051013_gene_patent.html\">&#8220;20 percent of human genes have been patented in the United  States, primarily by private firms and universities.&#8221;<\/a> But <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/4382308.stm\">no trademark on the scent of  strawberries<\/a><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#103005lp6\">6<\/a><\/sup> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing  Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\"><sup><a name=\"103005lp1\">1<\/a><\/sup> Apparently, they <i>do<\/i> know it&#8217;s Halloween to the exclusion of most everything else:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/9841877\/\">Corpse mistaken for Halloween decoration<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren  Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><sup><a name=\"103005lp2\">2<\/a><\/sup> I can definitely understand why <a  href=\"http:\/\/nalohopkinson.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/i-have-this-sudden-urge-to-start-using.html\">Nalo Hopkinson<\/a> had the &#8220;sudden urge to start using Blogger  word verifications as character names.&#8221; I keep expecting to see Cthulhu pop up among them. I suppose I could look this up, but does anyone know the etymology  of Lovecraft&#8217;s creations? Did he just make them up whole cloth, or are they fudged from actual words? (Perhaps something faintly <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.bwrdd-yr-iaith.org.uk\/\">Welsh<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><sup><a name=\"103005lp3\">3<\/a><\/sup> I guess I&#8217;m just not well-read enough to find this laugh-out-loud funny, but maybe you are, who knows.<\/p>\n<p><sup><a name=\"103005lp4\">4<\/a><\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrybisson.com\/meat.html\">&#8220;They&#8217;re Made Out of Meat&#8221;<\/a> by by Terry Bisson<\/p>\n<p><sup><a name=\"103005lp5\">5<\/a><\/sup> <i>Monty Python<\/i> actually <i>has<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courttv.com\/trials\/moxley\/052202_ctv.html\" title=\" Defense  witness gives Skakel an alibi\">entered the courtroom before<\/a>. In 2002, the defense offered it as an alibi in the murder trial of Michael Skakel. Skakel  was convicted.<\/p>\n<p><sup><a name=\"103005lp6\">6<\/a><\/sup> The scent of freshly cut grass, however, <i>has<\/i> been trademarked. Good thing it wasn&#8217;t <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#goodsmell\">the scent of maple syrup.<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linkpharm: Words: The Eggcorn Database, &#8220;unusual spellings of a particular kind&#8230;.a word or part of a word [that] is semantically reanalyzed, and the spelling reflects the new interpretation&#8221; [via] Court enforces letter of the law: &#8220;A Turkish court fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1673\">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-1673","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\/1673"}],"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=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}