{"id":3738,"date":"2010-02-02T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2010-02-02T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T20:08:15","slug":"tuesday-various-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3738","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>   <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Anybody wanna chip in together and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/01\/business\/media\/01miramax.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">buy Miramax<\/a>?<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>I mean, I&#8217;d be happy to write Errol Morris another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2010\/01\/youre-boring.html\">letter like this<\/a> if you think it would help. (I love how Weinstein asks Morris for casting suggestions to play himself.)<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Well that&#8217;s just weird: Barack Obama and Scott Brown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/barackobama\/7104628\/Barack-Obama-and-Scott-Brown-are-cousins-genealogist-reveals.html\">are cousins<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/rogerebert\/\" title=\"Roger Ebert\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Texas bans a children&#8217;s book because they thought it was written by a Marxist. Not only is that pretty dumb, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/texassouthwest\/stories\/DN-books_25tex.ART.State.Edition1.4ba2046.html\">they were also wrong<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, are there aliens already among us? <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100126\/ap_on_sc\/eu_britain_alien_life\"><em>Inside<\/em> us<\/a>?<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Frank Drake, who conducted the first organized search for alien radio signals in 1960, said that the Earth \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which used to pump out a loud tangle of radio waves, television signals and other radiation \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has been steadily getting quieter as its communications technology improves.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Drake cited the switch from analogue to digital television \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which uses a far weaker signal \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and the fact that much more communications traffic is now relayed by satellites and fiber optic cables, limiting its leakage into outer space.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">&#8220;Very soon we will become very undetectable,&#8221; he said. If similar changes are taking place in other technologically advanced societies, then the search for them &#8220;will be much more difficult than we imagined.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/\" title=\"Gwenda Bond\">via<\/a>] <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody wanna chip in together and buy Miramax? I mean, I&#8217;d be happy to write Errol Morris another letter like this if you think it would help. (I love how Weinstein asks Morris for casting suggestions to play himself.) Well that&#8217;s just weird: Barack Obama and Scott Brown are cousins. [via] Texas bans a children&#8217;s &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3738\">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":[16,83,109,14,37,38,10],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-legal","tag-letters","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-science","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738"}],"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=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}