{"id":3600,"date":"2009-10-13T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2009-10-13T16:53:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T20:53:58","slug":"tuesday-various-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3600","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>I actually don&#8217;t have a problem with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/?p=6083\">new Winnie the Pooh stories<\/a> by a different author, even if that means the introduction of a new character. I&#8217;m not in love with the idea, and would prefer to see something <em>new<\/em> &#8212; if Lottie the Otter is a worthy character, give her her own damn book? &#8212; but I&#8217;m more concerned with this being done to extend copyright, to <em>prevent<\/em> other new stories from being told.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>So if God <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/6274502\/God-is-not-the-Creator-claims-academic.html\"><em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> create heaven and earth<\/a>, that begs the question: who did? (From a Biblical standpoint, that is. If you take the there-is-no-God, the-universe-was-not-<em>created<\/em> route, obviously it&#8217;s sort of a moot point altogether.) This seems more like a case of semantics, but <em>interesting<\/em> semantics nonetheless. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;A van carrying beehives crashed into a truck on Monday, and huge swarms of bees broke free and stung the injured and rescue workers at the scene.&#8221; Yikes! As if the car crash <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090928\/ap_on_re_eu\/eu_turkey_bee_attack\">wasn&#8217;t bad enough<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Homo Sum\">via<\/a><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">]<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Next week, my mom and I are going to see <em>Wait Wait&#8230;Don&#8217;t Tell Me!<\/em> at Carnegie Hall. Tickets are sold out, but you still have time <a href=\"http:\/\/petersagal.com\/wordpress\/?p=252\">to bid on a pair<\/a> (for charity) if you&#8217;d also like to be there.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, I really loved these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2009\/10\/05\/super-social-networking-comic-book-character-facebook-status-u\/\">Superhero Status Updates<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually don&#8217;t have a problem with new Winnie the Pooh stories by a different author, even if that means the introduction of a new character. I&#8217;m not in love with the idea, and would prefer to see something new &#8212; if Lottie the Otter is a worthy character, give her her own damn book? &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3600\">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":[16,50,27,54,37,62,63,39],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-funny","tag-internet","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-religion","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600"}],"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=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}