{"id":3289,"date":"2009-01-05T22:14:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T03:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2009-01-06T13:25:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T18:25:25","slug":"monday-various-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3289","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>This is mostly for my own future reference, but should also be of interest to anyone else with an ebook reader in the audience. (I&#8217;m really loving mine by the way.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedollarorbit.com\/\">One Dollar Orbit<\/a>. Orbit Books is offering an ebook a month for just $1. I&#8217;m not too interested in this month&#8217;s selected title, but I do think I&#8217;ll pick up Iain M. Banks&#8217; <em>Use of Weapons<\/em> in February. Maybe it will encourage me to <em>finally<\/em> finish <em>Consider Phlebas<\/em>.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Also mostly for my own benefit, <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/526\/\">xkcd&#8217;s Guide to Converting to Metric<\/a>. We&#8217;re making <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metrication_in_the_United_States\">very slow progress<\/a> on this in the United States, and I find it very difficult to think in terms of degrees Celsius or kilometers instead of miles. When we were in England this past November, a co-worker and I were walking around Brighton when someone on the street asked us for directions. We had just passed the building they were looking for, so my co-worker said, &#8220;It&#8217;s about maybe half a mile back that way.&#8221; To which this clearly more-local-than-us gentleman replied, &#8220;Half a <em>mile<\/em>?!&#8221; Like we&#8217;d told him it was <em>23 and a third radishes<\/em> away or something equally nonsensical. We probably should have stuck with guessing the number of city blocks.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Alberto Gonzales: <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/12\/gonzo_im_a_casualty_of_the_war.php\">casualty of the Iraq war<\/a>. Won&#8217;t anybody think of the <em>real<\/em> victims? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Speaking of real victims, though: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/story\/cms.php?story_id=4173\">There are now more slaves on the planet than at any time in human history<\/a>. This is a <em>very<\/em> disturbing idea. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">]<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>But rather than end on a downer like that, may I present &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cutethingsfallingasleep.org\/\">Cute Things Falling Asleep<\/a>. It&#8217;s like a very specialized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuteoverload.com\/\">Cute Overload<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is mostly for my own future reference, but should also be of interest to anyone else with an ebook reader in the audience. (I&#8217;m really loving mine by the way.) One Dollar Orbit. Orbit Books is offering an ebook a month for just $1. I&#8217;m not too interested in this month&#8217;s selected title, but &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3289\">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-3289","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\/3289"}],"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=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}