{"id":3228,"date":"2008-11-14T22:09:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T03:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2008-11-14T22:09:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T03:09:14","slug":"friday-various-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"Friday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And I thought a <i>beard<\/i> of bees <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.bodybuilding.com\/showthread.php?t=111878061\">sounded like a lot<\/a>&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I think <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i> is going to have a tough time of it post-election cycle, but it is good to see them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2008\/11\/13\/you-want-more-cast-members-on-snl-you-got-em\/\">adding more female cast members<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>So the McCain advisor who leaked the story that Sarah Palin didn&#8217;t know Africa was a continent&#8230;apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/13\/arts\/television\/13hoax.html?_r=1&#038;em&#038;oref=slogin\">doesn&#8217;t exist<\/a>. Or, rather, he or she maybe <i>does<\/i> exist, but the person that MSNBC credited  <i>doesn&#8217;t<\/i>. <i>That<\/i> person is a fictional character, whose creators, as a joke, took credit for the leak. But the leak itself might have been real. And what it said about Sarah Palin might have been true. Or maybe not. Confused yet? [<a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2008\/11\/13\/inasmuch-as-people-seem-determined-to-send-this-to-me-every-five-minutes-until-i-post-something-about-it\/\" title=\"John Scalzi\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been thinking lately that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/\">Kaleidotrope<\/a> needs some kind of contest. Any suggestions?<\/li>\n<li>I keep trying to steel myself for disappointment, telling myself that this could still turn out to be really, really bad. But all I keep thinking is&#8230;wow.<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xR1EKSopZFs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xR1EKSopZFs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I thought a beard of bees sounded like a lot&#8230; [via] I think Saturday Night Live is going to have a tough time of it post-election cycle, but it is good to see them adding more female cast members. So the McCain advisor who leaked the story that Sarah Palin didn&#8217;t know Africa was &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3228\">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-3228","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\/3228"}],"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=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}