{"id":4138,"date":"2010-07-14T18:30:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T22:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2010-07-14T16:08:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:08:29","slug":"wednesday-various-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4138","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/laphamsquarterly.org\/visual\/charts-graphs\/?page=78\">Six degrees of literary separation<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mistermclaren\" title=\"@MisterMcLaren\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>If nothing else, I think this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.switched.com\/2010\/06\/23\/elaborate-fake-atm-found-in-beijing\/\">elaborte fake ATM<\/a> is proof that you don&#8217;t need a carefully designed forgery to fool a lot of people. [<a href=\"http:\/\/eddvick.livejournal.com\/\" title=\"Edd Vick\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/funny-5647-fonts\/\">The <i>Cracked<\/i> Guide to Fonts<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/thudfactor\" title=\"@thudfactor\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>You know, I&#8217;m sure <i>Tin House<\/i>&#8216;s heart was in the right place with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/?p=8261\">prove you bought a book somewhere before you submit anything<\/a> policy, but it&#8217;s not hard to see why it&#8217;s upset some people.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/tv\/834192-michael-palin-im-very-proud-of-the-monty-python-fish-slapping-dance\">an interview with Michael Palin<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very proud of the fish-slapping dance we did in Python. We rehearsed this silly dance where John Cleese hits me with a fish and I fall into Teddington Lock. We were so intent on getting the dance right that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t notice the lock had cleared and instead of it being a 2ft drop into the water it was a 15ft drop. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very proud of doing that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the interview is pretty interesting too &#8212; he didn&#8217;t think <i>A Fish Called Wanda<\/i> was a good script when he first read it &#8212; although residents of his &#8220;worst place ever,&#8221; Prince George, British Columbia, might not love it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six degrees of literary separation? [via] If nothing else, I think this elaborte fake ATM is proof that you don&#8217;t need a carefully designed forgery to fool a lot of people. [via] The Cracked Guide to Fonts [via] You know, I&#8217;m sure Tin House&#8216;s heart was in the right place with this prove you bought &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4138\">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":[16,82,108,88,78,23,43,75,10,111],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-fonts","tag-magazines","tag-monty-python","tag-tech","tag-travel","tag-various","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138"}],"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=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}