{"id":3407,"date":"2009-04-13T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3407"},"modified":"2009-04-13T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T18:56:25","slug":"monday-various-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3407","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Hmm, now <em>here&#8217;s<\/em> an interesting writing prompt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-admin\/\">from Neil Gaiman<\/a>: a story &#8220;from the point of view of the invisible cow.&#8221;<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Speaking of stories, apparently there&#8217;s a collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_works_by_Kurt_Vonnegut\">it occurs to me now<\/a> that I&#8217;ve only read about half of his novels &#8212; but this is exciting news nonetheless.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/blogs\/null\/137384\">97.3% of e-mail is spam<\/a>. And that&#8217;s <em>down<\/em> from last year&#8217;s 98.4%! The question remains, however: how much of that non-spam 2.7% is e-mail you actually <em>want<\/em> to receive? [<a href=\"http:\/\/greygirlbeast.livejournal.com\/\" title=\"Caitlin R. Kiernan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2009\/04\/03\/heres-a-trailer-for-the-new-show-k9-video\/\">TV Squad<\/a> shares the trailer for the new <em>Doctor Who<\/em> &#8220;semi-spin-off,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K-9_(TV_show)\"><em>K9<\/em><\/a>. It&#8217;s funny, but to me, the thing that looks least interesting about this trailer is K9 himself. It&#8217;s been suggested that not everything in that trailer is final, but I&#8217;m not desperately impressed. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planet_of_the_Dead\">Planet of the Dead<\/a>, on the other hand, wasn&#8217;t half bad.)<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Speaking of <em>Doctor Who<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/maximumverbosit.blogspot.com\/\">Betty<\/a> posts that the interview she conducted with Marc Schuster and Tom Powers, the authors of <em>The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: The Discerning Fan&#8217;s Guide to Doctor Who<\/em> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/subscribe\/#Apr08\">issue #4 of <em>Kaleidotrope<\/em><\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/marcschuster\/docs\/whogoesthere\">now available online<\/a>. I was really happy with the results of the interview, and I&#8217;m glad to see it live on. The color photos &#8212; which I couldn&#8217;t provide &#8212; are a nice touch.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, now here&#8217;s an interesting writing prompt from Neil Gaiman: a story &#8220;from the point of view of the invisible cow.&#8221; Speaking of stories, apparently there&#8217;s a collection of it occurs to me now that I&#8217;ve only read about half of his novels &#8212; but this is exciting news nonetheless. 97.3% of e-mail is spam. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3407\">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-3407","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\/3407"}],"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=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}