{"id":3913,"date":"2010-05-11T18:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T22:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2010-05-11T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T20:11:52","slug":"tuesday-various-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3913","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.asiaone.com\/News\/AsiaOne%2BNews\/Malaysia\/Story\/A1Story20100322-206015.html\">Flowers losing scent due to climate change<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Wow, if I&#8217;d known <em>bribery <\/em>was the way <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20100505\/wl_nm\/us_sudan_publisher#\">to get a textbook deal signed<\/a>&#8230; I&#8217;m pretty sure none of <em>our <\/em>sales reps do this&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Here are two good tips on writing exposition [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]:\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/magicdistrict.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/07\/exposition-on-a-need-to-know-basis\">Exposition on a need-to-know basis<\/a><\/font><\/li>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jpsorrow.livejournal.com\/256253.html\">Writing: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say It, Have the Characters Say It&#8221;<\/a><\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">&#8220;Show don&#8217;t tell&#8221; is a cliche for a reason <\/font><\/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\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/breakingnews\/os-gossip-girl-books-returned-20100506,0,7641285.story\">Mom returns books in &#8216;Gossip Girl&#8217; series she kept off library shelves since 2008<\/a>. <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">She seems like a perfectly reasonable crazy person. Honestly, I do see where she&#8217;s coming from, and she was well within her rights to prevent her children from reading the books, to ask that they be re-shelved, to protest the books in general. But she wasn&#8217;t within her rights to keep the books, and her actions are even less appropriate because the library<\/font><\/font><em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <em>did<\/em> <\/font><\/font><\/em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">re-shelve the books upon her request. She should be made to pay the fines. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bookslut\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>] <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">And finally, Dramatic Reading: Batman &#8211; Nemesis Fight [<a href=\"http:\/\/glvalentine.livejournal.com\/\" title=\"Genevieve Valentine\">via<\/a>]:<\/font><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DtP_Twur7_Y&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DtP_Twur7_Y&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/font><\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><em><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><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowers losing scent due to climate change? [via] Wow, if I&#8217;d known bribery was the way to get a textbook deal signed&#8230; I&#8217;m pretty sure none of our sales reps do this&#8230; [via] Here are two good tips on writing exposition [via]: Exposition on a need-to-know basis Writing: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say It, Have the Characters Say &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3913\">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":[16,83,37,38,10,7,12],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-legal","tag-news","tag-science","tag-various","tag-videos","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913"}],"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=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}