{"id":5181,"date":"2010-11-16T18:30:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T23:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5181"},"modified":"2010-11-16T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T22:02:33","slug":"tuesday-various-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5181","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;This will end us.&#8221; Oh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookssource.com\/\">Cooks Source<\/a>, you say that like it&#8217;s a <i>bad<\/i> thing. (That you say it with many, many typos is just sort of amusing.)\n<p>Seriously, though, had there not been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/the-cooks-source-scandal-how-a-magazine-profits-on-theft\/\">scores of examples<\/a> of <i>Cooks Source<\/i> being a copyright-theft-for-profit publication, and had each &#8220;apology&#8221; from Monica Griggs not smacked of arrogance and shifting of blame, I might be sympathetic. I might chalk it up to an honest mistake, crossed wires in communication, overly tired people saying things they later regret. But <i>Cooks Source<\/i>&#8216;s actions and attitudes speak for themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Far be it from me to badmouth a fledgling genre magazine, but&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/sfscope.com\/2010\/11\/scifi-short-story-magazine-lau.html\">Sci-Fi Short Story Magazine launches with impressive art and no pay<\/a>.\n<p>In theory, I wish them really well. But seriously? $11.99 for 34 pages (that&#8217;s about 35 cents a page!), plus a site heavy with ads, and you can&#8217;t pass along any of the money to the writers and artists? I give next to nothing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/\">Kaleidotrope<\/a> &#8212; I recognize that what I&#8217;m able to offer is only a token payment &#8212; but I think it&#8217;s still important to offer it. And <i>Kaleidotrope<\/i>, it should be noted, <i>does not turn a profit<\/i>. If you&#8217;re charging twelve bucks and hosting lots of ads, and you&#8217;re still not making any money, maybe it&#8217;s time to rethink your business model. And if you <i>are<\/i> making money, I feel you have an obligation to share some of that money with the people who provide you with content.<\/li>\n<li>Physician, heal thyself! A newly elected Maryland Republican, who campaigned strongly for repealing Obamacare, <a href=http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/11\/freshman-goper-hey-wheres-my-health-care.php?ref=fpb\">wonders why he can&#8217;t have his government-paid health care right away<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/DoctorHu\" title=\"@DoctorHu\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Which lends itself immediately to this question for the Democrats: when it&#8217;s increasingly clear that your opposition is a walking <i>Onion<\/i> headline, why do you keep insisting on caving into them? It&#8217;s hard to argue with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2010\/11\/16-3\">the position that<\/a> &#8220;every time Republicans are on the opposite side of an issue from the public, it&#8217;s the Democrats who cave and talk about \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccompromise.'&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/maddow\" title=\"@maddow\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, the big news today is that the Beatles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/the-beatles\/\">are finally on iTunes<\/a>. As <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/rbender\">Rob<\/a> says, &#8220;Hopefully now The Beatles will finally get the publicity and sales they deserve.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This will end us.&#8221; Oh, Cooks Source, you say that like it&#8217;s a bad thing. (That you say it with many, many typos is just sort of amusing.) Seriously, though, had there not been scores of examples of Cooks Source being a copyright-theft-for-profit publication, and had each &#8220;apology&#8221; from Monica Griggs not smacked of arrogance &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5181\">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":[67,33,5,181,27,172,78,15,6,11,38,10],"class_list":["post-5181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-beatles","tag-health","tag-hypocrisy","tag-internet","tag-journalism","tag-magazines","tag-music","tag-politics","tag-publishing","tag-science","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181"}],"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=5181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}