{"id":3625,"date":"2009-11-23T18:30:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T23:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2009-11-23T16:53:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T21:53:13","slug":"monday-various-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3625","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/regender.com\/\">Regender.com<\/a> is an interesting experiment, although obviously imperfect. In its regendering <a href=\"http:\/\/regender.com\/swap\/http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/\">of this site<\/a>, for instance, it changed Billy Joel&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask Me Why&#8221; into &#8220;&#8216;Donna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Ask Me Why&#8217; by Billie Joyce.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>This raises the troubling possibility that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledgementalhealth.com\/browse\/psychotherapy\/hypnosis-and-hypnotherapy\/\">some of our authors<\/a> are in fact cats: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/8303126.stm\">Cat registered as hypnotherapist<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">\n<p>I posted this earlier today to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/unrealfred\/\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nyssa23\">Nyssa23<\/a> replied, &#8220;Perhaps that explains the number of manuscripts you&#8217;ve been receiving concerning mice and cheeseburgers.&#8221; Still, as I told her, say what you will, Cheeseburger-Focused Brief Therapy <em>works<\/em>! <\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;A car crash victim who was believed to have been in a coma for the past 23 years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/News\/story\/sm_3573509.html\">has been conscious the whole time<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/matttaibbi\/2009\/11\/20\/sarah-palin-wwe-star\/\">Matt Taibbi on Sarah Palin<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">And Sarah Palin sells copies. She is the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first WWE politician \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a cartoon combatant who inspires stadiums full of frustrated middle American followers who will cheer for her against whichever villain they trot out, be it <em>Newsweek<\/em>, Barack Obama, Katie Couric, Steve Schmidt, the Mad Russian, Randy Orton or whoever. Her followers will not know that she is the perfect patsy for our system, designed as it is to channel popular anger in any direction but a useful one, and to keep the public tied up endlessly in pointless media melees over meaningless nonsense (melees of the sort that develop organically around Palin everywhere she goes). Like George W. Bush, even Palin herself doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know this, another reason she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such a perfect political tool.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">And finally, speaking of, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/seeing_red_over_palin_parody_uTOMZwWIQ9w1r2VdzEwYiJ\">god bless parody<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/greygirlbeast\/status\/5978751931\" title=\"Caitlin R. Kiernan\">via<\/a>]<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regender.com is an interesting experiment, although obviously imperfect. In its regendering of this site, for instance, it changed Billy Joel&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask Me Why&#8221; into &#8220;&#8216;Donna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Ask Me Why&#8217; by Billie Joyce.&#8221; [via] This raises the troubling possibility that some of our authors are in fact cats: Cat registered as hypnotherapist [via] I posted this &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3625\">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":[16,85,51,84,5,27,6,11],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-cats","tag-crazy","tag-gender","tag-health","tag-internet","tag-politics","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625"}],"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=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}