{"id":3958,"date":"2010-06-10T18:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T22:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2010-06-10T15:57:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T19:57:41","slug":"thursday-various-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3956\">Yesterday<\/a>, when I was posting links to stories about babies, I neglected to mention Ardi Rizal <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5548199\/two+pack+a+day-smoking-baby-totally-cooler-than-you?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+gawker\/full+%28Gawker%29\">a two-year-old Sumatran baby who smokes some forty cigarettes a day<\/a>. I think, mostly, because I wanted to pretend he doesn&#8217;t. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,693359,00.html\">this is just heartbreaking<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/colsonwhitehead\" title=\"@colsonwhitehead\">via<\/a>]:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">A German biologist says that efforts to clean oil-drenched birds in the Gulf of Mexico are in vain. For the birds&#8217; sake, it would be faster and less painful if animal-rescue workers put them under, she says. Studies and other experts back her up.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Whereas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/educationnews\/7771112\/Children-as-young-as-4-to-be-fingerprinted-to-borrow-school-books.html\">this<\/a> is just&#8230;fingerprinting to take out a library book? Seriously? The huge privacy issues aside, how does this <em>improve<\/em> the system for the library or the patron? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>A couple of periodic tables:\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2010\/05\/17\/superhero-periodic-table-superpowers\/\">The Periodic Table of Superpowers<\/a> &#8212; I shall henceforth refer to Superman always as OAFSISpVxVhSn. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/font><\/li>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">And <a href=\"http:\/\/sandramcdonald.livejournal.com\/57307.html\">Periodic Table of Women in SF<\/a> &#8212; There is, of course, a meme going around for this, where you bold the names you&#8217;ve read and star the ones you&#8217;ve never heard of, but if I were to do it, I think it would just reflect how unread I am. If nothing else, this is a good place to start a reading list. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.electricvelocipede.com\" title=\"Electric Velocipede\">via<\/a>]<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\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\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">But finally, speaking of women I <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> want to spend any more time with, <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/27\/movies\/27sex.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">A.O. Scott&#8217;s review<\/a> of <em>Sex and the City 2<\/em>:<\/font><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Yes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s supposed to be fun. And over the years audiences have had the kind of fun that comes from easy immersion in someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career, someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sex life, someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clothes. But \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sex and the City 2\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is about someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s boredom, someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vacation and ultimately someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s desire to exploit that vicarious pleasure for profit. Which isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much fun at all.<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/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><\/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>Yesterday, when I was posting links to stories about babies, I neglected to mention Ardi Rizal a two-year-old Sumatran baby who smokes some forty cigarettes a day. I think, mostly, because I wanted to pretend he doesn&#8217;t. [via] Meanwhile, this is just heartbreaking [via]: A German biologist says that efforts to clean oil-drenched birds in &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3958\">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":[20,76,5,83,47,14,37,150,10,12],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-comics","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-legal","tag-libraries","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-sf","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958"}],"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=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}