{"id":2715,"date":"2007-09-09T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2007-09-09T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T00:57:00","slug":"2715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2715","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Linkpharm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;In one of history&#8217;s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20227400\/site\/newsweek\/\" title=\"Newsweek: China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation\">from reincarnating without government permission<\/a>.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The world&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jacksondonne.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/now-we-know-its-not-just-duane.html\">most insane weatherman<\/a>. Seriously. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/\" title=\"Gwenda Bond\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tun3r.com\/\">TUN3R<\/a> &#8212; explore hundreds of free streaming radio stations [<a href=\"\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Mark Twain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/from-the-shadows.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/curious-story-of-jap-herron.html\">novel from beyond the grave<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/\" title=\"Gwenda Bond\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miskatonic.org\/dent.html\">The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot<\/a>. &#8220;No yarn of mine written to the formula has yet failed to sell.&#8221; Hmm. [<a href=\"http:\/\/maureenmcq.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Maureen F. McHugh\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shaenon.livejournal.com\/48834.html\">Edward Gorey&#8217;s &#8220;The Trouble with Tribbles&#8221;<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/wrongquestions.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Asking the Wrong Questions\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I think I could have done without knowing that something like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vampire_Squid\"><i>Vampyroteuthis infernalis<\/i><\/a> (or vampire squid) exists &#8212; much less that it <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2007\/08\/friday_cephalopod_the_vampire.php\">looks like this<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.m14m.net\/lesingesavant\/\" title=\"Remi's Bloglet\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I could also have remained happy in my ignorance of <a href=\"http:\/\/mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp\/waiwai\/news\/20070828p2g00m0dm002000c.html\" title=\"Mainichi Daily News: Testicles and tentacles\">the sexual habits of Japanese fishermen<\/a>. I&#8217;m reminded a little of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/2007\/02\/via-backwards-city-i-learn-that-new.html\">this story<\/a> of Russian fishermen who, not knowing <i>what<\/i> they&#8217;d caught (and apparently thinking it was some never-before-discovered alien) proceeded to <i>eat<\/i> the weird fish. (Although, truth be told, I&#8217;m no longer sure if that story was true. I think I&#8217;m going to pretend this new one isn&#8217;t either.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Homo Sum\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A Polish pulp fiction writer was sentenced to 25 years in jail yesterday for his role in a grisly case of abduction, torture and murder, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,,2163010,00.html\" title=\"Guardian: Polish author jailed over killing he used as plot\">a crime that he then used for the plot of a bestselling thriller<\/a>.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/englishrussia.com\/?p=1377#more-1377\">The Matrix Goggles<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/blog\/\" title=\"William Gibson\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashesandsnow.org\/\"><i>Ashes and Snow<\/i><\/a> &#8212; the artwork of Gregory Colbert. Simply incredible. [<a href=\"http:\/\/ellen-datlow.livejournal.com\/\" title=\"Ellen Datlow\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Are we really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200709\/quirk\" title=\"The Atlantic: Quirked Around\">&#8220;drowning in quirk&#8221;?<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Is Clint Eastwood really &#8220;the David Bowie of Westerns&#8221;? The AV Club considers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/feature\/dark_side_of_the_west_17_truly\">17 Truly Grim Westerns<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linkpharm: &#8220;In one of history&#8217;s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.&#8221; [via] The world&#8217;s most insane weatherman. Seriously. [via] TUN3R &#8212; explore hundreds of free streaming radio stations [via] Mark Twain&#8217;s novel from beyond the grave [via] The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2715\">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-2715","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\/2715"}],"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=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}