{"id":3539,"date":"2009-08-23T18:30:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T22:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2009-08-23T18:30:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T22:30:40","slug":"sunday-various-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3539","title":{"rendered":"Sunday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Well here&#8217;s a shocker: a zombie apocalypse <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8206280.stm\">really <i>would<\/i> wipe out mankind<\/a>. So say Canadian researchers, anyhow, and I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lectio.ca\/2009\/06\/zombie-research-weekend.html\">learned to trust Canadians<\/a> on matters zombie-related. [<a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/\" title=\"Sci-Fi Wire\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>From the &#8220;Are You <i>Sure<\/i> That Isn&#8217;t from <i>The Onion<\/i> Department&#8221;: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/rateyourstudents.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/finally-college-grad-sues-college.html\">College Grad Sues College Because She Can&#8217;t Find a Job<\/a>.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I had real problems with Ron Moore&#8217;s <i>Battlestar Galactica<\/i> near the end &#8212; not as much as some people, maybe, but still enough that I have yet to finish watching the final season. (It&#8217;s telling how much I wasn&#8217;t enjoying it that I was able to stop, months ago, midway through the cliffhanger mutiny episodes, and not really feel compelled to continue.) But how can it <i>not<\/i> be too early <a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/08\/confirmed-bryan-singer-to.php\">for yet <i>another<\/i> remake<\/a>? The elements that Moore didn&#8217;t adapt were the cheesy <i>Star Wars<\/i>-ripoffs of the original show. Who, besides maybe Glen Larson and Dirk Benedict, is crying out for that? And so soon?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ceasespin.org\/ceasespin_blog\/ceasespin_blogger_files\/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html\">Fox News gets okay to misinform public<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a &#8220;policy,&#8221; not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Well <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> reassuring.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, uniting all robots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20327206.300-robots-to-get-their-own-operating-system.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&#038;nsref=online-news\">under a single operating system<\/a>? Yeah, that couldn&#8217;t possibly go wrong&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well here&#8217;s a shocker: a zombie apocalypse really would wipe out mankind. So say Canadian researchers, anyhow, and I&#8217;ve learned to trust Canadians on matters zombie-related. [via] From the &#8220;Are You Sure That Isn&#8217;t from The Onion Department&#8221;: &#8220;College Grad Sues College Because She Can&#8217;t Find a Job.&#8221; [via] I had real problems with Ron &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3539\">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":[14,6,9,31,38,17,10,24],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-politics","tag-pop-culture","tag-sci-fi","tag-science","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539"}],"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=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}