{"id":3104,"date":"2008-08-05T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T01:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2008-08-05T21:38:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T01:38:11","slug":"just-some-stuff-ive-got-lying-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3104","title":{"rendered":"Just some stuff I&#8217;ve got lying around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>     <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pattonoswalt.com\/index.cfm?page=spew&amp;id=83\">Patton Oswalt&#8217;s commencement speech at his old high school<\/a> &#8212; &#8220;I&#8217;m going to get out of your way now. Get out there. Let&#8217;s see which one of you is up here in twenty years. If you&#8217;re lacking confidence, remember \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I wouldn&#8217;t have picked me.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Two cavemen walk into a bar&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/uktv.co.uk\/dave\/item\/aid\/604717\">The world&#8217;s ten oldest jokes<\/a>. And <em>still<\/em> funnier than Dane Cook. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Remember that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121755336096303089.html?mod=hpp_us_inside_today\">Obama is too thin<\/a>&#8221; story that ran in <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> the other day? The reporter&#8217;s sources came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadlyno.com\/archives\/10322.html\">trolling Yahoo message boards<\/a>. Ah, journalism! [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Wanna see what <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikejozic.com\/buffyweek4.html\"><em>Buffy: The Animated Series<\/em><\/a> <\/em>might have looked like? Well now you can, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mnUvZP7-5LM\">with this spec video<\/a>. It&#8217;s not<em> <em>phenomenal<\/em><\/em>, and I think this ship has sailed, but it could have been very cool. And I was impressed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1018409\/\">Giselle Loren<\/a> sounds more or less exactly like Sarah Michelle Gellar. I&#8217;m in the mood suddenly to revisit some of earlier <em><em>Buffy<\/em> <\/em>episodes. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nancykress.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/point-of-fiction.html\">Nancy Kress on the point of fiction<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure I agree with her completely, but it&#8217;s an interesting take nonetheless. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>George Bush: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JgEuuypvzpY\">Wall Street got drunk.<\/a>&#8221; Well, I guess if anyone would know about getting drunk&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linalamont.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/science-fiction-as-fantasy.html\">An interesting writing experiment<\/a>: rewriting science fiction as fantasy and vice versa. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Is reading online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/27\/books\/27reading.html?_r=3&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">really reading<\/a>? There&#8217;s a part of me that wants to say, &#8220;Of course it is. Get with the times, old fogies.&#8221; But there&#8217;s also a part that wants to say, &#8220;Um, no, it&#8217;s really not.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about eating food from a company whose founder thinks &#8220;frozen foods taste better than anything I could grow in my garden.&#8221; But I may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2160284\/\">not have a choice<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And, like a cancer, <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.flowingdata.com\/walmart\/\">Wal-Mart spreads<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve no doubt heard (everywhere) that there really is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/phoenix\/news\/phoenix-20080731.html\">water on Mars<\/a>. And apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=liquid-lake-on-titan\">a liquid lake on Saturn&#8217;s Titan<\/a>.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pwbeat.publishersweekly.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/31\/new-garfield-book-without-garfield-announced\/\">A &#8220;Garfield Minus Garfield&#8221; book<\/a> raises all sorts of interesting copyright issues, but if Ballantine is going ahead, I suspect Paws Media (if not Jim Davis himself) is on board, so maybe it&#8217;s a non-issue, really. Davis is, apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/03\/AR2008040303083.html\">a fan<\/a>, so that helps. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>You know, I&#8217;m not really a Deerhoof fan, but <a href=\"http:\/\/deerhoof.cashmusic.org\/\">this is a really interesting idea<\/a>: releasing your new single as sheet music and asking other bands to record covers. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Note to Mike Myers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?id=58231\">Please just stop<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Remake<em> <em>Farscape<\/em> <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5030662\/how-wed-give-farscape-a-battlestar+style-reboot-and-make-a-new-hit\">in<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5030662\/how-wed-give-farscape-a-battlestar+style-reboot-and-make-a-new-hit\"> <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em>&#8216;s <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5030662\/how-wed-give-farscape-a-battlestar+style-reboot-and-make-a-new-hit\">i<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5030662\/how-wed-give-farscape-a-battlestar+style-reboot-and-make-a-new-hit\">mage<\/a>? As <a href=\"http:\/\/wrongquestions.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/epic-wrongness-of-day.html\">Abigail Nussbaum notes<\/a>, this is a very bad idea indeed. It completely misses the point of what made<em> <em>Farscape<\/em> <\/em>so special and misunderstands the nature of camp. (Which, for the most part,<em> <em>Farscape<\/em> <\/em>never was.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zgZfry82LC4\">Vampire energy<\/a>. Looking around the room, I think about as guilty of this as the next person. Although I do make sure to unplug my laptop when I leave for work in the morning. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s okay to plead the Fifth. <a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/why-you-should-never-talk-to-police.html\">Why you should never talk to the police<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>How many of us do you think could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=dark-knight-shift-why-bat\">become a Batman<\/a>?<\/strong> If you found the percentage of billionaires and multiply that by the percentage of people who become Olympic decathletes, you could probably get a close estimate.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patton Oswalt&#8217;s commencement speech at his old high school &#8212; &#8220;I&#8217;m going to get out of your way now. Get out there. Let&#8217;s see which one of you is up here in twenty years. If you&#8217;re lacking confidence, remember \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I wouldn&#8217;t have picked me.&#8221; [via] Two cavemen walk into a bar&#8230; The world&#8217;s ten &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3104\">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-3104","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\/3104"}],"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=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}