{"id":3610,"date":"2009-11-05T18:30:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T23:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2009-11-05T18:30:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T23:30:58","slug":"thursday-various-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3610","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/environment\/091102-africa-rift-ocean.html\">Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New Ocean<\/a>. Of course, it&#8217;ll be in a million years or so, but still. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been impressed with <a href=\"http:\/\/geist.com\/\">Geist<\/a> ever since <a href=\"http:\/\/lectio.ca\/\">Heather<\/a> got me a subscription to the magazine &#8212; to the point that I didn&#8217;t think twice about renewing my subscription, even as I let my <i>New Yorker<\/i> subscription lapse again. I like the magazine not least as physical object, so I was a little dubious about the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/geist.com\/74\/digital-edition\">a digital edition<\/a>. But I think this has a certain goofy charm; it certainly replicates the turning of magazine pages better than the typical e-reader. Check it out &#8212; and maybe even consider subscribing!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll admit, when I DVR a television show, I usually fast-forward through the commercials. Isn&#8217;t that the purpose for which the technology was first marketed? Apparently, I&#8217;m in a very small majority: nearly half of all DVR users <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/02\/business\/media\/02ratings.html?_r=2&#038;hp\"><i>don&#8217;t<\/i> skip the ads<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/\" title=\"The AV Club\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Now that he&#8217;s been elected New Jersey&#8217;s governor, I think Monty Python definitely <i>should<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/11\/christie-could-be-sued-bymonty-python.php\">sue Chris Christie<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, though you&#8217;ve probably seen this all over the place, <a href=\"http:\/\/whedonesque.com\/comments\/22240\">Joss Whedon&#8217;s open letter to <i>The Terminator<\/i> owners<\/a>. That&#8217;s <i>four<\/i> zeroes after the one!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New Ocean. Of course, it&#8217;ll be in a million years or so, but still. [via] I&#8217;ve been impressed with Geist ever since Heather got me a subscription to the magazine &#8212; to the point that I didn&#8217;t think twice about renewing my subscription, even as I let my &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3610\">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":[78,41,23,14,6,11,31,38,17,39,79],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-magazines","tag-media","tag-monty-python","tag-movies","tag-politics","tag-publishing","tag-sci-fi","tag-science","tag-tv","tag-weird","tag-whedon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610"}],"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=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}