{"id":3528,"date":"2009-08-07T18:30:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T22:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2009-08-07T15:29:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T19:29:03","slug":"friday-various-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3528","title":{"rendered":"Friday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>It&#8217;s the obvious joke, but you couldn&#8217;t pay <em>me<\/em> to watch Fox News. I&#8217;m dubious about the efficacy of any pay wall, much less <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-if-wsj.com-is-the-model-news-corp.-isnt-building-a-news-fortress\/\">one proposed by Rupert Murdoch<\/a>. Heck, I was disturbed enough to learn that Bill O&#8217;Reilly was the recent Career Day Keynoter at my old high school. (He&#8217;s also an alum.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/\" title=\"TV Squad\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Aw man. First <a href=\"http:\/\/farragosfmi.com\/?p=161\">Farrago&#8217;s Wainscot<\/a> and now <a href=\"http:\/\/baens-universe.com\/articles\/Universe_Closing\">Jim Baen&#8217;s Universe<\/a>. Sometimes, it can seem like not a day without another short fiction marketplace closing. Honestly, the main thing that keeps <em>Kaleidotrope<\/em> running (beyond my own enjoyment at putting it together) is me turning a blind eye to exactly how much each issue costs me. (It&#8217;s a couple hundred dollars, let&#8217;s say that. And that&#8217;s even though I pay my writers next to nothing.) Sad to see these two markets close.<\/li>\n<li>Still, here&#8217;s some good news: Scott Westerfeld&#8217;s terrific YA novel <em>Uglies<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/scottwesterfeld.com\/blog\/?p=1294\">is now available as a free e-book<\/a>. And non-US readers needn&#8217;t worry: though publisher asks for a US zipcode, as Westerfeld says, that&#8217;s really just five numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Generally, I like Richard Corliss (or have never really seen any reason to dislike him, in the few times I&#8217;ve run across his work), but he really doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingnetflix.com\/2009\/08\/time-magazine-on-five-ways-to-fix-netflix.html\">in his criticism of Netflix<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, although I can&#8217;t be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anticipationsf.ca\/\">Worldcon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2009\/07\/31\/explaining-the-hugos\/\">John Scalzi explains the Hugos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the obvious joke, but you couldn&#8217;t pay me to watch Fox News. I&#8217;m dubious about the efficacy of any pay wall, much less one proposed by Rupert Murdoch. Heck, I was disturbed enough to learn that Bill O&#8217;Reilly was the recent Career Day Keynoter at my old high school. (He&#8217;s also an alum.) [via] &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3528\">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":[16,4,14,37,9,11,17,10],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-kaleidotrope","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-pop-culture","tag-publishing","tag-tv","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528"}],"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=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}