{"id":3876,"date":"2010-04-22T18:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2010-04-21T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:44:32","slug":"thursday-various-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3876","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>It&#8217;s neither especially &#8220;great&#8221; nor in any way &#8220;new,&#8221; but <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/theinferior4\/666088.html\">this great new Rolling Stones song<\/a> is definitely interesting. It&#8217;s one from the vault.<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>George Washington <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8627835.stm\">owes $300,000 in overdue library fines<\/a>. Good luck collecting that. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>These are protests I can get behind:\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/?p=17035\">Student uses Westboro Baptist Church visit as fundraiser<\/a><\/font><\/li>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Green Apple Books <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreenapplecore.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/when-sarah-palins-memoir-going-rogue.html\">donated 100% of the profits<\/a> of Sarah Palin&#8217;s <em>Going Rogue<\/em> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akwildlife.org\/\">the Alaska Wildlife Alliance<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Speaking of Palin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/john-mcwhorter\/what-does-palinspeak-mean#\"><em>The New Republic<\/em> takes a look<\/a> at the linguistic acrobatics of Palinspeak, calling it:<\/font><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">&#8230;a flashlight panning over thoughts, rather than thoughts given light via considered expression.<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">As McWhorter says, &#8220;this is someone watching thoughts go by at a certain distance and gluing them together willy-nilly \u00e2\u20ac\u201d for the first time.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>] <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/li>\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, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2010\/04\/10\/han-solo-in-carbonite-soap\/\">Han Solo in carbonite soap<\/a>. Because of course. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s neither especially &#8220;great&#8221; nor in any way &#8220;new,&#8221; but this great new Rolling Stones song is definitely interesting. It&#8217;s one from the vault. George Washington owes $300,000 in overdue library fines. Good luck collecting that. [via] These are protests I can get behind: Student uses Westboro Baptist Church visit as fundraiser Green Apple Books &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3876\">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":[125,16,126,64,47,14,15,6,10],"class_list":["post-3876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-activism","tag-books","tag-geeky","tag-language","tag-libraries","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-politics","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876"}],"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=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}