{"id":3454,"date":"2009-05-28T20:30:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T00:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2009-05-28T20:30:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T00:30:26","slug":"thursday-various-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3454","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<li>Well this explains why I&#8217;m only just now getting registrations for books I sent them back in 2007: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/18\/AR2009051803171.html?hpid=topnews\">there&#8217;s a huge backlog<\/a> at the Library of Congress:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The irony is that the slowdown stems from a new $52 million electronic process that is supposed to speed the way writers and others register their literary, musical or visual work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Isn&#8217;t that <i>usually<\/i> the way with expensive electronic processes? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/\" title=\"Gwenda Bond\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/blog\/?p=7277\">Why CuteOverload is Critical to Your Work<\/a>. Well I&#8217;m sold! [<a href=\"http:\/\/maximumverbosit.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Maximum Verbosity\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of cute, I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/archives\/2009_05.php#014511\">Jessa Crispin<\/a>, this really <i>is<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparehed.com\/2009\/05\/23\/double-suicide\/\">too cute not to share<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>New research suggests ways in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2009\/04\/26\/inside_the_baby_mind\/?page=full\">newborn brains work better than our own<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/eddvick.livejournal.com\/\" title=\"Edd Vick\">via<\/a>]:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">In fact, in some situations it might actually be better for adults to regress into a newborn state of mind. While maturity has its perks, it can also inhibit creativity and lead people to fixate on the wrong facts. When we need to sort through a lot of seemingly irrelevant information or create something completely new, thinking like a baby is our best option.<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had this very misleading view of babies,&#8221; says Alison Gopnik, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of the forthcoming book, &#8220;The Philosophical Baby.&#8221; &#8220;The baby brain is perfectly designed for what it needs to do, which is learn about the world. There are times when having a fully developed brain can almost seem like an impediment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>Still, babies might have a little trouble puzzling out these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg18524911.600-13-things-that-do-not-make-sense.html\">13 Things That Do Not Make Sense<\/a>. I know I did. [<a href=\"http:\/\/billwardwriter.com\/\" title=\"Bill Ward\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this explains why I&#8217;m only just now getting registrations for books I sent them back in 2007: there&#8217;s a huge backlog at the Library of Congress: The irony is that the slowdown stems from a new $52 million electronic process that is supposed to speed the way writers and others register their literary, musical &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3454\">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-3454","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\/3454"}],"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=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}