{"id":1688,"date":"2005-11-06T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2005-11-06T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T01:53:00","slug":"1688","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Sunday linkpharm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Halloween aftershocks:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star.niu.edu\/articles\/?id=12274\" title=\"'Monsters' have biological explanations\">Professor says legendary creatures have genetic basis<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Backwards City\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altreel.com\/cult-fiction\/Literary_Deaths.html\" title=\"'Sylvia Plath Stuck Her Head in an Oven . . .' &#038; Other Disturbing Deaths in the Literary World\">Disturbing Literary Deaths<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Backwards City\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mypetzombies.com\/\" title=\"My Pet Zombies\">Life-sized latex zombies for sale<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Words:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcsweeneys.net\/2005\/11\/3krumholz.html\">Alternate Endings to Famous Literary Works as Written by a 115-Year-Old with a Grudge<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stayfreemagazine.org\/2005\/11\/cafepress_copyr.html\" title=\"Cafepress: Copyright Cops\">Cafepress shut down parody t-shirts for non-existent drug<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/01\/books\/01elli.html?ex=1288501200&#038;en=a010e832586bb58b&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">The Strange Case of the Spoofer Captured by a Spoof<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>As a comedian, actor and satirist, Chris Elliott has made a career out of blurring the line between truth and absurdity. As a novelist, he has unintentionally fuzzied things further by falling for an online spoof and incorporating a fictional robot into his book as a historical figure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[registration of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bugmenot.com\/\">BugMeNot<\/a> required]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pictures:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dore.artpassions.net\/\">The art of Gustave Dore<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/\" title=\"Shaken &#038; Stirred\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xo.typepad.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/1000lb_butter_s.html\">1,000lb Butter Sculpture Of Darth Vader And Yoda<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exuberance.com\/photos\/panos\/Sprawl-SanRamonCA.html\">Panoramic photograph of suburban sprawl near San Ramon, California<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Backwards City\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/davidfg\/59033637\/\">Learn to Be a Journalist<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawker.com\" title=\"Gawker\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/religioustracts\/\">Kitschy Christian tracts<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1560976195\/002-4992768-0123257?v=glance\">The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/audium.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"audium\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sounds:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/archives\/002043.html\" title=\"Kevin Federline's album starts leaking\">Mr. Britney Spears raps<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/\" title=\"TV Squad\">via<\/a>] I think we can all be excused from caring.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jawboneradio.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/jawbone-81-in-search-of-bill-watterson.html\">In Search of Bill Watterson<\/a> (and his mom) [<a href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Backwards City\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileactive.org\/ringtones\">Experimental Ring Tones<\/a>, including George W. Bush&#8217;s now infamous &#8220;Brownie, you&#8217;re doing a heck of a job&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Video:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animationarchive.org\/2005\/11\/filmography-swing-you-sinners.html\">&#8220;Swing, You Sinners&#8221;<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Quotes:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;You know you are famous when you discover you have become a comic book character.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/in_pictures\/4385674.stm\" title=\" In pictures: Nelson Mandela comic strip\">Nelson Mandela<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;There is a world in which publishers let me choose typefaces, but I&#8217;m afraid it&#8217;s also the world in which the Second World War was decisively won by the Belgian-Martian alliance.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2005\/10\/polite-spoiler-free-post.asp\">Neil Gaiman<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Oprah has the power to lay waste to entire industries with a mere utterance. That&#8217;s a power that you have to respect. And ultimately I respect it.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/30\/arts\/television\/30ogun.html?ex=1288328400&#038;en=83c6e390460b857b&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=tvtattle\" title=\"The Comic-Strip Revolution Will Be Televised\">Aaron McGruder<\/a> [registration of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bugmenot.com\/\">BugMeNot<\/a> required]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Games:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-dac.com\/game\/animal\/animal1.html\">Monkey Maze<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/linkfilter.net\/\" title=\"Linkfilter\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.ie\/~dluby\/escape.htm\">Escapa!<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Other Stuff:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/11\/02\/bush.pockets.ap\/index.html\">What does Bush keep in his pockets?<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawker.com\" title=\"Gawker\">via<\/a>] Sadly, <i>not<\/i> a banana.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bmj.bmjjournals.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/331\/7524\/1080?ehom\">Sword swallowing uncertainties<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>] (The copyeditor in me wants to point out &#8220;sword-swallowing&#8221; should probably be hyphenated.)<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/broadsheet\/index.html?blog=\/mwt\/broadsheet\/2005\/11\/04\/hero\/index.html\">10-year-old geography hero<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chm.bris.ac.uk\/motm\/motm.htm\">The Molecule of the Month<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baddaystudio.com\/gravityblog.html\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community-2.webtv.net\/magentashadow\/GOMC\/\">God of the Month<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baddaystudio.com\/gravityblog.html\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/4396246.stm\">1.5m Chinese &#8216;descendants of one man&#8217;<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baddaystudio.com\/gravityblog.html\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotouring.com\/razzledazzle\/articles\/dazzle.html\">Razzle Dazzle Camouflage<\/a><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#110605lp1\">1<\/a><\/sup> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2087-1849406,00.html\" title=\"For sale: Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s underground\">240-acre underground UK bunker-city for sale<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\"><sup><a name=\"110605lp1\">1<\/a><\/sup>Also of interest to WWI naval buffs: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concreteships.org\/\">Concrete Ships<\/a> from my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/rgb.editthispage.com\/\">Rob<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday linkpharm: Halloween aftershocks: Professor says legendary creatures have genetic basis [via] Disturbing Literary Deaths [via] Life-sized latex zombies for sale [via] Words: Alternate Endings to Famous Literary Works as Written by a 115-Year-Old with a Grudge [via] Cafepress shut down parody t-shirts for non-existent drug [via] The Strange Case of the Spoofer Captured by &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1688\">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-1688","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\/1688"}],"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=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}