{"id":3956,"date":"2010-06-09T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2010-06-09T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T22:30:11","slug":"wednesday-various-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3956","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stieg Larsson is turning out to be an <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/08\/unpublished-manuscripts-by-stieg-larsson-are-found\/\">incredibly prolific dead man<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists have created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18956-just-what-we-need-sarcasm-software.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&#038;nsref=online-news\">software that can recognize sarcasm<\/a>. Now if we could just figure out a way to transfer that ability to more <i>people<\/i>&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><li>Whatever your feelings about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cochlear_implant#Controversy_in_Deaf_culture\">deaf culture and cochlear implants<\/a> &#8212; personally, I sympathize, but I still believe deafness is a disability &#8212; it&#8217;s hard not to be a little moved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZDD7Ohs5tAk\">by this video<\/a> of an eight-month-old deaf baby hearing sound for the first time. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li\n\n\n \n\n<li>And that child later would grow up to be&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/friday-youtube-iron-baby\/\">Iron Baby<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-05-11\/inside-lorne-michaels-bubble\/?cid=hp:vertical:l\">Lorne Michaels<\/a> on being Canadian and comedic [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">&#8220;I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s allowed. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not encouraged, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definitely allowed, and you stand very little chance of being shot.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stieg Larsson is turning out to be an incredibly prolific dead man. Scientists have created software that can recognize sarcasm. Now if we could just figure out a way to transfer that ability to more people&#8230; [via] Whatever your feelings about deaf culture and cochlear implants &#8212; personally, I sympathize, but I still believe deafness &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3956\">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":[16,82,80,5,149,11,38,10,7],"class_list":["post-3956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-canada","tag-comedy","tag-health","tag-humor","tag-publishing","tag-science","tag-various","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956"}],"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=3956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}