{"id":3619,"date":"2009-11-16T18:30:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T23:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2009-11-16T18:30:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T23:30:53","slug":"monday-various-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3619","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;TIGA, the computer games industry body, is facilitating links between publishers and computer games developers by inviting its members to create briefs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/102799-tiga-encourages-games-developers-to-look-at-books-for-original-ideas.html\">for live publishing-based projects<\/a>. That&#8217;s right. No more video games based on popular movies based on popular books; these folks are going direct to the source. Which naturally begs the question: which books would <i>you<\/i> like to see made into video games? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of games, here&#8217;s two: <a href=\"http:\/\/jayisgames.com\/cgdc6\/?gameID=9\">Small Worlds<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/quizipedia.appspot.com\/\">Quizapedia<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.Waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sr.se\/P1\/src\/sing\/#\">Let Them Sing it for You<\/a>: does exactly what it says on the tin. Amusing, though your mileage may vary. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/allsongs\/\" title=\"All Songs Considered\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paulftompkins.com\/blog_detail.php?id=46\">An interesting exchange<\/a> between stand-up comedian Paul F. Tompkins and Improv Everywhere founder Charlie Todd. I&#8217;m not really sure which one of them I side with here. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/\" title=\"Maximum Fun\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/News\/2009\/11\/sci-fi-wire-cancels-columns.html\">SCI FI Wire cancels its columns<\/a>. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m at all surprised. Its steady race to be a weak clone of <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/\">io9<\/a> (which isn&#8217;t always so terrific itself) continues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;TIGA, the computer games industry body, is facilitating links between publishers and computer games developers by inviting its members to create briefs for live publishing-based projects. That&#8217;s right. No more video games based on popular movies based on popular books; these folks are going direct to the source. Which naturally begs the question: which books &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3619\">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":[16,80,35,27,15,9,31,10],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-comedy","tag-games","tag-internet","tag-music","tag-pop-culture","tag-sci-fi","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619"}],"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=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}