{"id":2735,"date":"2007-09-29T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2007-09-29T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T23:09:00","slug":"2735","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2735","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">These have been accumulating for a little while, so bear with me. <\/p>\n<p>Linkpharm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/dailytelegraph\/story\/0,22049,22439156-5012895,00.html\">Online couple cheated with each other<\/a> &#8212; sounds an awful lot like an <i>Onion<\/i> headline, doesn&#8217;t it? [<a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/consumer\/nutrition\/30-code-words-for-sugar-300988.php\">30 Code Words for Sugar<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/eddvick.livejournal.com\" title=\"Edd Vick\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filmflap.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/how-to-write-movie-for-sci-fi-channel.html\">How to Write a Movie for the Sci-fi Channel in Six Easy Steps<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lolthulhu.com\/\">LOLthulhu<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/8008\">The Namesakes of 10 Legendary Drawn Characters<\/a> &#8212; A lot of these are pretty obvious, or at least pretty well established already, but there are a few I&#8217;d never heard before and some more interesting ones (Foghorn Leghorn, anyone?) in the comments. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\" title=\"Shaken &#038; Stirred\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><i>The Daily Telegraph<\/i> wonders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2007\/09\/15\/bodavid115.xml\">Why does Hollywood get the writer so wrong?<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/\" title=\"Edward Champion\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eatourbrains.com\/EoB\/2007\/09\/19\/magic-dragon\/\">Magic dragon<\/a> &#8212; an amazing optical illusion<\/li>\n<li>Is a stolen joke <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2007\/09\/20\/stephen-colbert-sued-for-65-million-video\/\">worth $65 million<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Is a walk-on role in Will Ferrel&#8217;s new movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematical.com\/2007\/09\/27\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-be-an-extra-with-will-ferrell-47-100\/\">worth $50,000?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Who would have thought &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20982414\/?GT1=10357\">human leg found in smoker<\/a>&#8221; would ever be the <i>least<\/i> strange part of any story? [<a href=\"http:\/\/quietwolf.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"World Behind My Face\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Is Vista really this bad? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdaily.com\/content\/view\/34015\/140\/\">Microsoft quietly unveils Vista-to-XP downgrade<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shunn.livejournal.com\/420256.html\"><i>The Last Starfighter: The Musical<\/i><\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/wrongquestions.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Asking the Wrong Questions\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infauxmedia.com\/swmusical\"><i>Star Wars: The Musical<\/i><\/a> &#8212; ~o\/ &#8220;He is me. I am Obi-Wan. I am him &#8211; the one and only one.&#8221; \/o~ [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/107378.html\"><i>Spider-Man: The Musical<\/i><\/a> &#8212; and, apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/stuff\/4206305a1860.html\">Marilyn Manson<\/a> wants to be cast in it. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Nickelodeon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2007\/09\/28\/nickelodeon-wants-you-to-go-outside-tomorrow\/\">aired nothing for three hours<\/a> today, in an effort to get kids to go outside and exercise. I admire the impulse but wonder what, if any, effect it had.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/derooftrouser\/pic\/00025etr\">A scanned page<\/a> from David Tennant&#8217;s school yearbook. The one role the then-17-year-old Tennant (born MacDonald) would have loved to play? Doctor Who. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Tom Green <i>and<\/i> Crispin Glover <a href=\"http:\/\/jam.canoe.ca\/Movies\/2007\/09\/27\/4532359-cp.html\" title=\"  <br \/>Tom Green cast in sci-fi film&#8221;>in the same movie together<\/a>? Is the world ending already? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Are &#8220;girlie&#8221; book covers <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/article2507850.ece\" title=\"How judging a book by its \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgirlie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 cover is putting boys off reading\">are turning boys away from reading<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003645960&#038;imw=Y\">Marriage proposal via crossword puzzle<\/a>? Sounds geekily romantic. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/\" title=\"Edward Champion\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Stephen King opines on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/30\/books\/review\/King2-t.html?_r=1&#038;ref=review&#038;oref=slogin\">what ails the short story<\/a>. Although I think <a href=\"http:\/\/ellen-datlow.livejournal.com\/9684.html\">Ellen Datlow offers<\/a> a much more sensible response.<\/li>\n<li>You know, <i>I&#8217;d<\/i> never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/offbeat\/2007-09-21-czech-devils-bible_N.htm\">the Devil&#8217;s Bible<\/a> before, but that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=5104\">Warren Ellis hadn&#8217;t either<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Anarchy in middle age&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/gallery\/2007\/sep\/21\/1?picture=330790999\">The Sex Pistols are re-uniting<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/theinferior4\/\" title=\"the inferior 4+1\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_2527962.html\">The world&#8217;s most expensive dessert<\/a> &#8212; I don&#8217;t know, the 80-carat gemstone sort of seems like cheating.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These have been accumulating for a little while, so bear with me. Linkpharm: Online couple cheated with each other &#8212; sounds an awful lot like an Onion headline, doesn&#8217;t it? [via] 30 Code Words for Sugar [via] How to Write a Movie for the Sci-fi Channel in Six Easy Steps [via] LOLthulhu [via] The Namesakes &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2735\">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-2735","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\/2735"}],"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=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}