{"id":3369,"date":"2009-03-21T15:11:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T20:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2009-03-20T15:13:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T20:13:59","slug":"saturday-various-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"Saturday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m a little troubled by Canada&#8217;s science minister, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090317.wgoodyear16\/BNStory\/National\/?page=rss&#038;id=RTGAM.20090317.wgoodyear16\">won&#8217;t confirm or deny if he believes in evolution<\/a> on religious grounds. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Do you remember arcades? Apparently, kids these days <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.rpg.net\/showthread.php?t=440112\">don&#8217;t know what they were like<\/a>. I feel old. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/that.animeblogger.net\/2007\/04\/13\/what-if-charlie-brown-became-an-anime\/\">Charlie Brown as anime<\/a>. This is pretty damn terrific. I also love this <a href=\"http:\/\/creebobby.com\/timestable.html\">comics archetype times table<\/a>. Ack! Zombie platypus! [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve no doubt heard by now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/16\/business\/media\/16adcol.html?_r=2\">the Sci-Fi Channel is changing its name<\/a>. I can&#8217;t really build up any excitement one way or another about this &#8212; much like with a lot of their programming lately &#8212; but I do think it&#8217;s worth noting that, <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2009\/03\/17\/the-venereal-disease-channel-imaginatizes-greatastically\/\">as John Scalzi points out<\/a>, their new name &#8220;Syfy&#8221; is a term used for veneral disease in Poland.<\/li>\n<li>I really like Dan Meth&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/danmeth.com\/tagged\/popculturalcharts\">Series Of Pop-Cultural Charts<\/a>, including the sitcom map of the United States and New York. (I work somewhere around <i>30 Rock<\/i> and <i>My Two Dads<\/i>.) You know the scary thing, though? There&#8217;s not a single entry in his Sitcom Houses breakdown where I didn&#8217;t immediately have an image of the house in my head.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little troubled by Canada&#8217;s science minister, who won&#8217;t confirm or deny if he believes in evolution on religious grounds. [via] Do you remember arcades? Apparently, kids these days don&#8217;t know what they were like. I feel old. [via] Charlie Brown as anime. This is pretty damn terrific. I also love this comics archetype &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3369\">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-3369","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\/3369"}],"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=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}