{"id":3511,"date":"2009-07-15T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2009-07-15T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T19:47:12","slug":"wednesday-various-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3511","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-followup-announced,30414\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_books\"><i>Sense And Sensibility and Sea Monsters<\/i><\/a>, huh? I worry about diminishing returns, but I&#8217;ve heard pretty good things about <i>Pride And Prejudice And Zombies<\/i>, Quirk&#8217;s last book in this sort-of-series. (Seeing as how <i>Pride and Prejudice<\/i> is the only Jane Austen I&#8217;ve ever read, maybe I should also read Seth Grahame-Smith&#8217;s parody of it. Then again, I read Austen&#8217;s book, along with another for a test, in a single weekend, and I can&#8217;t say I remember <i>a lot<\/i> about it. Some people get married in the end, I think?) I just worry: can <i>The Werewolves of Mansfield ParK<\/i> or <i>Emma: Vampire Hunter<\/i> be far behind?<\/li>\n<li>I fucking knew it! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2009\/07\/why-the-do-we-swear-for-pain-relief.html\">Cursing may be good for you<\/a>. <a href=\"www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HrfCixsd2N8\">Clay Davis<\/a> must be the healthiest man alive. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2009\/07\/090709-birds-magnetic-field.html\">Toxic Substance Allows Birds to &#8220;See&#8221; Magnetic Field<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Cryptochrome is also present in the human eye, but our amount of superoxides is even lower.<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">That&#8217;s because superoxides reduce longevity, so human evolution has put a premium on longer life spans instead of on better steering. <\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">In birds, however, evolution has favored a bit of cellular damage in return for the navigational benefits of magnetic vision, the researchers conclude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">What this seems to suggest, possibly, is that if we increased the amount of superoxides in <i>our<\/i> system, <i>we<\/i> could &#8220;see&#8221; the magnetic field just like birds. Of course, given the trade-off in toxicity, I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll find anyone too eager to test this hypothesis. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">One should always be scared when George Lucas turns his eye towards &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/television\/Star-Wars-TV-Series-Filmed-Down-Under-18465.html\">relationships and emotional landscapes<\/a>.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">And finally, I <i>love<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/neighborhood\/leawood\/story\/1282628.html\">these fake library ads<\/a>. More pictures from the Johnson County Library <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jocolibrary.org\/jocobooktruck\">here<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sense And Sensibility and Sea Monsters, huh? I worry about diminishing returns, but I&#8217;ve heard pretty good things about Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, Quirk&#8217;s last book in this sort-of-series. (Seeing as how Pride and Prejudice is the only Jane Austen I&#8217;ve ever read, maybe I should also read Seth Grahame-Smith&#8217;s parody of it. Then &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3511\">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":[16,14,9,38,17,10,39,24],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-movies","tag-pop-culture","tag-science","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-weird","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511"}],"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=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}