{"id":1698,"date":"2005-11-13T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-13T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2005-11-13T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-13T18:30:00","slug":"1698","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Sunday linkpharm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Words:\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Guardian&#8217;s<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/archives\/2005\/11\/09\/top_20_geek_novels_the_results.html\">Top 20 geek novels<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baddaystudio.com\/gravityblog.html\" title=\"Gravity Lens\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literature-map.com\/\">Literature Map<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/mumpsimus.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Mumpsimus\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/archives\/2005_11.php#007120\">Dean Koontz: racist?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwd.com\/article\/print\/102563\">J.T. LeRoy: non-existent?<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/2005\/11\/my_own_personal.html\">Gwenda Bond&#8217;s Personal Best list<\/a> of the soon-to-be-no-more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiction\/\">Sci Fiction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookgasm.com\/reviews\/thrillers\/wanna-be-on-a-hard-case-crime-cover\/\">Wanna be on a Hard Case Crime cover?<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawker.com\/\" title=\"Gawker\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinescape.com\/0\/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&#038;this_cat=Comics&#038;action=page&#038;obj_id=50025&#038;type_id=270288&#038;cat_id=270412&#038;sub_id=271127\">Comics After Katrina<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baddaystudio.com\/gravityblog.html\" title=\"Gravity Lens\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pictures:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carved-eggs.com\/index.html\">Carved eggs<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/avclub.com\/\" title=\"Onion AV Club\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ueba.com.br\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=19934\">More carved eggs<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.invisible-city.com\/\" title=\"Invisible City Productions\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montecook.com\/monet_le_stuff.html\">Monet&#8217;s <i>Land of the Lost<\/i> paintings<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/avclub.com\/\" title=\"Onion AV Club\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radosh.net\/archive\/001326.html\">The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelpaulus.com\/gallery\/character-Skeletons\">Cartoon character skeletal structures<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panopticist.com\/\" title=\"Panopticist\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worth1000.com\/cache\/contest\/contestcache.asp?contest_id=7756&#038;display=photoshop\">Dream houses<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Homo Sum\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.misterkitty.org\/extras\/stupidcovers\/index.html\">Stupid Comics<\/a><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#111305lp1\">1<\/a><\/sup> [<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/progressiveruin.com\/archives\/2005_11_06_archive.html#113177837015205622\">Bob Marley and Yoda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomjuddseveryday.com\/\">Tom Judd&#8217;s Everyday<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.invisible-city.com\/us\/jpb.htm\" title=\"Jeremy\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Movies:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cthulhulives.org\/cocmovie\/\"><i>The Call of Cthulu<\/i><\/a> as silent movie [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caitlinrkiernan.com\/journal.html\" title=\"Caitlin R. Kiernan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weirdhat.com\/swsimultaneously\/stuff.php\">Watching all six Star Wars movies simultaneously<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\" title=\"Backwards City\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abacuscreativemanagement.com\/artists\/trussell\/videos\/JFDSwpweb.mov\">&#8220;War Photographer&#8221;<\/a> (Quicktime) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.m14m.net\/lesingesavant\/\" title=\"Remi\">via<\/a><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#111305lp2\">2<\/a><\/sup>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000BIBGR2\/002-6874694-6741659?v=glance&#038;n=130&#038;tagActionCode=trektoday\">The Ultimate Star Trek Collection<\/a> &#8212; for just $4,000 (or $2,500 with Amazon&#8217;s discount)! [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/\" title=\"TV Squad\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Music:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.areasofmyexpertise.com\/hoboes.html\">700 Hobo Names<\/a><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#111305lp3\">3<\/a><\/sup> (mp3) [<a href=\"http:\/\/avclub.com\/\" title=\"Onion AV Club\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.too-fat.com\/music\/jason_forrest_punk_songs.mp3\">&#8220;My 36 Favorite Punk Songs&#8221;<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.m14m.net\/lesingesavant\/\" title=\"Remi\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twink.net\/\" title=\"Twink: the toy piano band!\">The Broken Record<\/a> &#8211;&#8220;pieces together musical tidbits from hundreds of vintage children&#8217;s records, creating crazy new songs with a modern feel.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyID=10239097&#038;src=rss\/oddlyEnoughNews\">Paul McCartney to beam concert into space<\/a> &#8212; I guess so Martians can now be bored by his last few albums, too<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Science!:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyfiend.com\/death-by-caffeine\/\">Death by Caffeine<\/a><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#111305lp4\">4<\/a><\/sup> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/mersipan\/\" title=\"Meredith\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-1858246,00.html\" title=\"Cow-tipping myth hasn't got a leg to stand on leg to stand on\">Physics of cow-tipping<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Creator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venganza.org\/\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> gets an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkmetro.com\/nymetro\/news\/people\/columns\/intelligencer\/15011\/index.html\" title=\"The $80,000 Pasta Bible\">$80,000 book advance<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingsyouneverknew.com\/website\/store\/product_detail.asp?UID=2005101906515753&#038;item%5Fno=80875&#038;keyword=F1JS&#038;cat%5Fkeyword=F1JS&#038;search%5Fpage%5Fno=3\">LED-equipped, battery-powered faucet turns water a luminescent blue<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8275\" title=\"US military sets laser PHASRs to stun\">&#8220;Non-lethal&#8221; laser rifles<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20051106\/wl_uk_afp\/afplifestylebritaincocaineoffbeat\">Cocaine traces detected in River Thames<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawker.com\/\" title=\"Gawker\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=mg18825252.400&#038;feedId=life_rss091\" title=\"Lemur named after Monty Python star\">New lemur named after John Cleese<\/a> &#8212; the <i> Avahi cleesei<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/4420084.stm\">Leap second proposal sparks row<\/a><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#111305lp5\">5<\/a><\/sup> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baddaystudio.com\/gravityblog.html\" title=\"Gravity Lens\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/humanbiology\/top10_missinglinks.html\">Top 10 Missing Links<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baddaystudio.com\/gravityblog.html\" title=\"Gravity Lens\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/rahimi\/helmet\/\">On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/\" title=\"Shaken &#038; Stirred\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Feds+mull+regulation+of+quantum+computers\/2100-11395_3-5942445.html?tag=cd.top\" title=\"Feds mull regulation of quantum computers\">Possible federal regulation of quantum computers<\/a> &#8212; although maybe that can wait until they&#8217;re actually invented? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baddaystudio.com\/gravityblog.html\" title=\"Gravity Lens\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verysmallobjects.com\/\">The Collier Classification System for Very Small Objects<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.invisible-city.com\/us\/jpb.htm\" title=\"Jeremy\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/channel\/being-human\/dn8279.html\" title=\"Women get a bigger buzz from cartoons\">A Stanford University study<\/a> finds that men and women see humor very differently.<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#111305lp6\">6<\/a><\/sup> [<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.indiana.edu\/%7Ehanson\/Movies\/blackhole.mov\">Approach to the Black Hole at the Galactic Core<\/a> (Quicktime) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.invisible-city.com\" title=\"Invisible City Productions\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.08\/pwr_timetravel.html\">A User&#8217;s Guide to Time Travel<\/a>, plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.08\/pwr_invisible.html\">Being Invisible<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.08\/pwr_antigravity.html\">the Antigravity Underground<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.08\/pwr_superpower.html\">8 Super Powers<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\" title=\"Backwards City\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Quotes:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;All good horror stories are metaphors&#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/movies2.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/09\/movies\/09puls.html?ex=1289192400&#038;en=c976a9fdc2f82c26&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\" title=\"What if the Bleak Afterlife Were Overcrowded, Too?\">Anita Gates<\/a> (registration or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bugmenot.com\/\">BugMeNot<\/a> required)<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;If it made the six of us laugh, that was it. End of conversation.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\/new\/xmlfeed.nsf\/mndwebpages\/gilliam%20got%20childish%20arrogance%20from%20monty%20python\" title=\"Gilliam Got Childish Arrogance from Monty Python\">Terry Gilliam<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8221;I was thinking of retiring but what would I do? Probably just travel.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/news\/nov05\/palin071102.php\" title=\"On the road again\">Michael Palin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Those bastards! Why they always gotta be compromising the vision of a subversive cinematic rebel like [Joel] Schumacher?&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/avclub.com\/content\/node\/42409\" title=\"Batman and Robin\">Nathan Rabin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;There was a show. Not that many people saw it in broad terms, but it was beloved. Full of humor, love and pain. And though it was a hard-sell emsemble piece with no huge names it in, it got made into a (roughly) 40 million dollar pic &#8212; and with the cast intact. That doesn&#8217;t happen a lot, but it should, and it did with this film. That&#8217;s right. I just cannot wait to see RENT. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/whedonesque.com\/comments\/8735\">Joss Whedon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Drip, drip, drip &#8212; each drop of functionality painfully and expensively squeezed into your living room, every time you want to do something you used to do for free. That&#8217;s not a business-model. That&#8217;s a urinary tract infection.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/11\/12\/new_sony_lockware_pr.html\">Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Other:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.undergroundkent.co.uk\/maunsell_towers.htm\">Maunsell Army Sea Forts<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com\/\">Trading a paperclip for a house<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chunklet.com\/back_issue_14_7.cfm\">66 Ways to Be Annoying at Monopoly<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mr-jones.org\/katazukue\/index.html#vidimg\">Katazukue: the tidy table<\/a> &#8212; with built-in conveyor belt [<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forbes.codefix.net\/capsule\/\">The E-Mail Time Capsule<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\" title=\"Backwards City\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press-citizen.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051110\/NEWS01\/511100302\/1079http:\/\/www.press-citizen.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051110\/NEWS01\/511100302\/1079\" title=\"Turtle soup, sure. But turtle coffee?\">Baby turtle found in Folgers coffee<\/a><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/fishes.html#111305lp7\">7<\/a><\/sup> [<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\"><a name=\"111305lp1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> I am, of course, reminded of the equally amusing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/columns\/oddball\/\">Oddball Comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"111305lp2\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a> Remi describes it, pretty accurately I think, as &#8220;Vikings vs. Demons in the arena of ROCK!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"111305lp3\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a> Just FYI: the mp3 is about an hour long, so keep that in mind before listening. Also of interest: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/700hoboes\/\">collection of images<\/a> inspired by the list.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"111305lp4\"><sup>4<\/sup><\/a> What they don&#8217;t appear to say &#8212; and this leads me to wonder about the results &#8212; is in what time span this much caffeine would be fatal. <i>x<\/i>-number of cups one right after the other, gulped down as fast as you can go? <i>x<\/i>-number of cups over the course of a day? It definitely can&#8217;t be <i>x<\/i>-number of cups of coffee over the course of a lifetime, because then Starbucks would be the single greatest mass murderer on the planet.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"111305lp5\"><sup>5<\/sup><\/a> &#8220;Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.&#8221; &#8211; Douglas Adams<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"111305lp6\"><sup>6<\/sup><\/a> Is that why there were usually more guys than girls at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clubs.psu.edu\/up\/python\/\">Monty Python Society<\/a> meetings? Or is it just because <a href=\"http:\/\/unreality.net\/public\/pepperpotfred.jpg\">we took all the good roles<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"111305lp7\"><sup>7<\/sup><\/a> Folgers is apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/go.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyID=10253179&#038;src=rss\/oddlyEnoughNews\">looking into it<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday linkpharm: Words: The Guardian&#8217;s Top 20 geek novels [via] Literature Map [via] Dean Koontz: racist? J.T. LeRoy: non-existent? [via] Gwenda Bond&#8217;s Personal Best list of the soon-to-be-no-more Sci Fiction Wanna be on a Hard Case Crime cover? [via] Comics After Katrina [via] Pictures: Carved eggs [via] More carved eggs [via] Monet&#8217;s Land of the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1698\">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-1698","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\/1698"}],"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=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}