{"id":3372,"date":"2009-03-23T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T21:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2009-03-23T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T20:08:12","slug":"monday-various-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3372","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/5005557\/Academic-discovers-six-works-by-William-Shakespeare.html\">Six new plays by William Shakespeare<\/a>? That seems like an awful lot, a bit of overkill actually. And, of couse, <a href=\"http:\/\/mzonline.com\/bin\/view\/Python\/StakeYourClaim\">as everybody knows<\/a>, Mr. Norman Voles of Gravesend wrote all of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays. His wife wrote the sonnets. [<a href=\"https:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Still, it&#8217;s not impossible that these plays have been missing until now. The British Library reports  they&#8217;ve misplaced some 9,000 books. And this follows in the wake of earlier reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/23\/AR2007102301784.html\">of mis-shelved or missing books<\/a> at the Library of Congress &#8212; none of which gives libraries a good name. (And they already have critics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3368\">like Kevin Myers<\/a> to contend with.) Still, when all is said and done, what I really want to know is: what&#8217;s a &#8220;luxury edition&#8221; of <em>Mein Kampf<\/em>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Speaking of books, how&#8217;d you like a book <a href=\"http:\/\/booktwo.org\/notebook\/vanity-press-plus-the-tweetbook\/\">of all your Twitter posts<\/a>? While it might be nice to have that kind of permanent record &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\">Waxy.org<\/a> suggests that &#8220;someone should make this a service, also incorporating your Flickr photos and blog posts&#8221; &#8212; I&#8217;m not convinced it&#8217;s a permanent record I&#8217;d ever want to <em>read<\/em>.<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>It will take a lot more than color e-paper to impress me <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/gadgetreviews\/?p=2176\">with this boring design and hefty price tag<\/a>, but still, it&#8217;s a pretty neat feature. My own e-reader doesn&#8217;t do color covers very well. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/i-watched-this-on-purpose-repo-the-genetic-opera,24886\/\">Tasha Robinson on <em>Repo: The Genetic Opera<\/em><\/a>:<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Sometimes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cult film\u00e2\u20ac\u009d refers to a movie that failed in theaters, but was eventually embraced by a vast, dedicated underground support network; sometimes the term is just slapped on anything that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so offensive, weird, or narrowly focused that only a small, determinedly perverse collective could love it.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">It does get thrown around way too often nowadays. <\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six new plays by William Shakespeare? That seems like an awful lot, a bit of overkill actually. And, of couse, as everybody knows, Mr. Norman Voles of Gravesend wrote all of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays. His wife wrote the sonnets. [via] Still, it&#8217;s not impossible that these plays have been missing until now. The British Library reports &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3372\">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-3372","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\/3372"}],"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=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}