{"id":4378,"date":"2010-08-11T18:30:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2010-08-11T16:54:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T20:54:37","slug":"wednesday-various-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4378","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You know, if you&#8217;re <i>going<\/i> to get a tramp stamp <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2010\/08\/image-of-the-day-awesome-1.php\" title=\"Blastr: Girl tattoos MST3K silhouette on her back\">lower-back tatoo<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The other day, I posed a question on Twitter and Facebook: grammatically, should it be <i>the Beatles<\/i> or <i>The Beatles<\/i>? I wasn&#8217;t interested so much in this particular example, but what people thought about the capitalization of the lead-in article. My question brought in a flurry of responses, some very well thought out, most in favor of capitalizing the &#8220;The,&#8221; only one (<i>not<\/i> in favor) citing an actual style guide, but I don&#8217;t think we reached anything like a consensus. It&#8217;s one of those things that boils down, for the most part, to personal aesthetics. I almost always write <i>the Beatles<\/i>, lower-case t, just as I almost always don&#8217;t italicize the &#8220;the&#8221; before &#8220;the <i>New York Times<\/i>.&#8221; You can find lots of people (and style guides) that dictate one or the other, but it pretty much comes down to personal preference. This particular example wasn&#8217;t work-related, so I didn&#8217;t have the APA style guide to fall back on. Despite what I usually do, this time I went with the capital T.\n<p>I bring all of this up simply because I was amused to see my initial question listed among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/visualizations\/wikipedia-lamest-edit-wars\/\">Wikipedia&#8217;s lamest edit wars<\/a>. You have to know which battles are worth picking. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/bookslut\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/02\/no-e-books-allowed-in-this-establishment\/\">No E-Books Allowed in This Establishment<\/a>. Just lame.<\/li>\n<li>On the one hand, I&#8217;m intrigued by the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2010\/08\/saw-writers-bringing-oute.php\">an <i>Outer Limits<\/i> movie<\/a>. On the other hand, maybe a financially troubled studio and a pair of <i>Saw<\/i> writers aren&#8217;t the best people to see it through.\n<p>I do find it curious that none of the reports I&#8217;ve seen mention the more recent &#8217;90s adaptation of the show &#8212; which, for better or worse, ran 5 years longer than the original.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2262822\/\">Jacob Weisberg on Sarah Palin<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The non-Sarah Dittoheads among us have to decide whether to regard this babble\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfavoring creation science, aerial wolf-shooting, and freedom of the press, so long as the press is &#8220;accurate&#8221;\u00e2\u20ac\u201das scary or funny. During the 2008 campaign, when there was a real chance that Palin could become the automatic successor to an impulsive, elderly cancer survivor, I found it more scary than funny. After McCain lost, and after Palin terminated her governorship in the effusion of furious gibberish known as her resignation speech, I have found it mostly funny. To be alarmed by Palin today presumes a Republican Party suicidal enough to want her to do more than run its weekend paintball games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;m still a little scared. In today&#8217;s politics of the right, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thudfactor.com\/choosing-between-sane-and-crazy\">crazy is quickly becoming the new sane<\/a>, and crazy seems to love it some Sarah Palin, you betcha. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, if you&#8217;re going to get a tramp stamp lower-back tatoo&#8230; The other day, I posed a question on Twitter and Facebook: grammatically, should it be the Beatles or The Beatles? I wasn&#8217;t interested so much in this particular example, but what people thought about the capitalization of the lead-in article. My question brought &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4378\">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":[16,161,14,48,6,17,10],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-grammar","tag-movies","tag-mst3k","tag-politics","tag-tv","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378"}],"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=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}