{"id":3677,"date":"2010-01-05T18:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2010-01-05T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T21:51:00","slug":"tuesday-various-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3677","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/news\/Scientists-develop-39golden-fleece39-.5952036.jp\">Scientists develop &#8216;golden fleece&#8217; lozenge to fight off all cold and flu bugs<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/smallbeerpress.com\/not-a-journal\/\" title=\"Not a Journal\">via<\/a>]:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The pill, which would cost 20 pence a day and would be taken once before breakfast, could be sold over the counter in as little as two years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;Most expensive&#8221; foods <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/sweet-surrender-80328712.html\">like this<\/a> often seem like a cheat to me &#8212; <i>of course<\/i> it&#8217;s expensive if it&#8217;s served in a solid gold dish! &#8212; but this one seems like it might actually earn its hefty price tag, if only because the most expensive ingredients are also edible. That said, there&#8217;s not a chance I&#8217;m paying $750 for a single cupcake. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Arachne Jericho on embracing the inconsistencies in the Sherlock Holmes universe and why a gay Holmes\/Watson relationship really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=58580\">isn&#8217;t such a stretch<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I once tried getting a book endorsement from Desmond Tutu. When his assistant turned me down, I didn&#8217;t turn around and fake one. This is one of several reasons why I am not an African dictator. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/booknews\/6389096\/Nelson-Mandela-Foundation-accuses-Congo-president-over-fake-foreword.html\">Nelson Mandela Foundation accuses Congo president over fake foreword<\/a>) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, a fascinating story about a Wired writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/vanish\/2009\/11\/ff_vanish2\/\">who tried to disappear<\/a>. I was particularly amused by the idea that his trackers created real Twitter accounts to look like automated spambots to draw <i>away<\/i> suspicion. Seems like the inverse of how these things usually work. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists develop &#8216;golden fleece&#8217; lozenge to fight off all cold and flu bugs [via]: The pill, which would cost 20 pence a day and would be taken once before breakfast, could be sold over the counter in as little as two years. &#8220;Most expensive&#8221; foods like this often seem like a cheat to me &#8212; &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3677\">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":[16,21,5,27,60,14,11,38,43,10],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-food","tag-health","tag-internet","tag-money","tag-movies","tag-publishing","tag-science","tag-tech","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677"}],"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=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}