{"id":3465,"date":"2009-06-03T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T22:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2009-06-03T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T20:10:17","slug":"wednesday-various-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3465","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cognitivedaily\/2009\/05\/does_faking_amnesia_permanentl.php\">Does faking amnesia permanently distort your memory?<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">In other words, pretending to have amnesia doesn&#8217;t hurt your memory, but rehearsing the correct answers improves it. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanvan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/trends\/toilet_paper_horror_novel_117441.asp?c=rss\">A horror novel on toilet paper<\/a>?<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Here&#8217;s the spooky rationale behind the story: &#8220;Toilets in Japan were traditionally tucked away in a dark corner of the house due to religious beliefs. Parents would tease children that a hairy hand might pull them down into the dark pool below.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Take the <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/alan-presents-69-modern-classics.html\">Amazon Statistically Improbable Phrase Quiz<\/a>. <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font>I like it in theory more than practice, mainly because in practice I couldn&#8217;t guess any of them correctly. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanvan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Two zombie links: <a href=\"http:\/\/zombie.stinque.com\/bible\/Main_Page\">the Zombie Bible<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>] and, in the scary real world, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/mcclatchy\/20090512\/sc_mcclatchy\/3231765\">parasitic flies turn fire ants into zombies<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanvan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, not a new link &#8212; but it&#8217;s new to me &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/01\/26\/the-case-against-can.html\">the case against Candy Land<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">I realize that games of pure chance have a long history, but that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make them any less moronic. (And it goes without saying that Checkers, Chess, Go, and other strategy games are great tests of decision-making.) I take this as another example of how much more mentally challenging kids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 culture has become in recent years. The digital generation doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to have much of an appetite for games structured around total randomness. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanvan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does faking amnesia permanently distort your memory? In other words, pretending to have amnesia doesn&#8217;t hurt your memory, but rehearsing the correct answers improves it. 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Here&#8217;s the spooky rationale behind the story: &#8220;Toilets in Japan were traditionally tucked away in a dark corner of the house due to &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3465\">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-3465","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\/3465"}],"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=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}