{"id":3799,"date":"2010-03-04T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T23:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2010-03-04T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:21:24","slug":"thursday-various-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3799","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation-and-world\/la-na-ny-drawings4-2010mar04,0,5944386.story\">Putting every New Yorker on paper<\/a>.<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Artist Jason Polan has an ambitious goal: to sketch all 8.3 million people in the city. He captures his unsuspecting subjects eating pizza, riding the subway, catching a train.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Hmm. I wonder if <i>I&#8217;m<\/i> anywhere in his sketchbook. [<a href=\"http:\/\/desukomoviespot.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Eric B.\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Looking for another reason not to like &#8220;textbook sociopath&#8221; Ayn Rand? Apparently she was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/books\/145819\/ayn_rand%2C_hugely_popular_author_and_inspiration_to_right-wing_leaders%2C_was_a_big_admirer_of_serial_killer\">a big admirer of certain serial killers<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/5482198\/my-roger-ebert-story\">Roger Ebert: class act<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/youngamerican\/\" title=\"@youngamerican\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not a &#8220;late fee,&#8221; it&#8217;s just money you owe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingnetflix.com\/2010\/03\/blockbuster-bringing-back-late-fees-but-dont-call-it-a-late-fee.html\">if you don&#8217;t bring back the DVD on time<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/universe\/2010\/03\/_ursula_k_leguin_is.php?utm_source=nytwidget\">a great interview with Ursula K. Le Guin<\/a> about the Google Book Settlement and why she&#8217;s opted out:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I&#8217;m part of the technological age whether I want to be or not, and mostly I enjoy it very much. I&#8217;m not protesting technology &#8212; how stupid would that be? Writers against Computers, or something? I&#8217;m protesting against a corporation being allowed to rewrite the rules of copyright and the laws of my country &#8212; and in doing so, to wreck the whole idea of that limitless electronic Public Library.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I think the Google Library could do a lot of good. I think the way Google is going about it will do a lot of harm. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bookslut\/\" title=\"@bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting every New Yorker on paper. Artist Jason Polan has an ambitious goal: to sketch all 8.3 million people in the city. He captures his unsuspecting subjects eating pizza, riding the subway, catching a train. Hmm. I wonder if I&#8217;m anywhere in his sketchbook. [via] Looking for another reason not to like &#8220;textbook sociopath&#8221; Ayn &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3799\">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":[19,16,112,14,54,6,11,10],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-books","tag-business","tag-movies","tag-new-york","tag-politics","tag-publishing","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799"}],"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=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}