{"id":3259,"date":"2008-12-11T18:19:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T23:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2008-12-11T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T21:19:36","slug":"thursday-various-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3259","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Well <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/latestnews\/Fewer-prisoners-executed-in-US.4782064.jp\">here&#8217;s <em>one<\/em> positive<\/a> of these tough economic times:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>THE number of executions in the United States has fallen to a 14-year low of 37 this year as social concerns about the death penalty and its financial costs rise, the Death Penalty Information Centre said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">How much an execution costs will, I&#8217;m sure, vary state to state. But I&#8217;ve seen estimates as high as many thousands, if not millions of dollars per prisoner. I can think of <em>many<\/em> other reasons not to support the death penalty. But hey, if you were looking for a reason that would bring everything down to brass tacks, here it is. Killing people costs too much money. [<a href=\"http:\/\/lcrw.net\/wordpress\/\" title=\"Not a journal\">via<\/a>] <\/font><\/li>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Ever wonder what Disney characters would look like when broken down into their base particles? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowmonkey.de\/pr-40_cartoon.html#1\">wonder no more<\/a>! [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>The Keanu Reeves&#8217; remake of <em>The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/em> will apparently be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?id=62686\">transmitted into deep space<\/a> as part of a promotion. Damn, all the good jokes here are too obvious or already taken!<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7768059.stm\">This is just shocking<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Anti-retroviral drugs used to treat HIV\/Aids are being bought and smoked by teenagers in South Africa to get high.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Apparently it&#8217;s a very widespread problem &#8212; with even AIDS patients partaking in it. It just proves, I suppose, that there&#8217;s no drug out there that somebody won&#8217;t figure out a way to abuse. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>] <\/font><\/li>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Pre-chewed pencils? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_3116295.html\">Oh, those crazy British design firms<\/a>.<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The company, called Concentrate, says the pencils look like they have already been chewed making pupils less likely to put them in their mouths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Here are the problems I see with this idea. First, parents and students are not going to want to use pre-chewed pencils. Except for a small minority, who won&#8217;t care, and who may very well chew them anyway. And second, if you <em>tell<\/em> them that it&#8217;s just a joke, and that the pencils are not <em>really<\/em> pre-chewed, that defeats the whole purpose. I know it&#8217;s meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but I can&#8217;t imagine them being of any real use. <\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well here&#8217;s one positive of these tough economic times: THE number of executions in the United States has fallen to a 14-year low of 37 this year as social concerns about the death penalty and its financial costs rise, the Death Penalty Information Centre said. How much an execution costs will, I&#8217;m sure, vary state &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3259\">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-3259","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\/3259"}],"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=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}