{"id":3253,"date":"2008-12-09T17:15:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2008-12-09T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:09:00","slug":"tuesday-various-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3253","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Ken Jennings <a href=\"http:\/\/ken-jennings.com\/blog\/?p=1107\">thinks about Tetris<\/a> way more than I ever have.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Although I don&#8217;t see my own corner among them &#8212; did he bypass Madison Avenue altogether? &#8212; Richard Howe&#8217;s block-by-block <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardhowe.net\/zMSC\/index-msc.html\">photographs of Manhattan street corners<\/a> are strangely fascinating. Thirty-ninth and 40th are my neck of the woods, if you&#8217;re curious. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Some really terrific-looking <a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/pop-up-books-1930s-these-quick-snap.html\">1930s pop-up books<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/\" title=\"Tor.com\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>A cute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l8rJ1WML60Y\">interactive YouTube adventure<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Caitlin R. Kiernan <a href=\"http:\/\/greygirlbeast.livejournal.com\/515188.html\">writes of Steven Spielberg&#8217;s <em>A.I.: Artificial Intelligence<\/em><\/a> that<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">&#8230;it appears as an sf story (and, I would say, works well as sf), it&#8217;s <em>truly<\/em> a fairy tale. Many things happen for fairy-tale reasons. Fairy-tale logic governs much of the film, and it strikes out, often, with all the cruelty and viciousness of the best fairy tales. I was very pleased that it&#8217;s aged so well. However, this is probably not a film for the sort of sf reader\/audience who actually thinks that science fiction is (or, at least &#8220;should&#8221; be) concerned mainly with science and predictions of the future of man and technology.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">I may have to revisit the film in that context. But I don&#8217;t think the problems I had with it originally stemmed from a too-rigid definition of what science fiction is, or an idea in my head of how the film should or should not reflect that. I think it&#8217;s a very good movie and one of Spielberg&#8217;s most complex and mature. But I also think it&#8217;s deeply flawed on several levels. Fairy tales can be flawed just as easily as science fiction. <\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Jennings thinks about Tetris way more than I ever have. Although I don&#8217;t see my own corner among them &#8212; did he bypass Madison Avenue altogether? &#8212; Richard Howe&#8217;s block-by-block photographs of Manhattan street corners are strangely fascinating. Thirty-ninth and 40th are my neck of the woods, if you&#8217;re curious. [via] Some really terrific-looking &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3253\">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":[],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253"}],"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=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}