{"id":5333,"date":"2010-12-06T18:30:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T23:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5333"},"modified":"2010-12-06T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T21:31:15","slug":"monday-various-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5333","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You know, I&#8217;m all for preventing the spread of AIDS and everything, but I&#8217;d pay good money to <i>keep<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/alicia-keys-lady-gaga-justin-timberlake-and-more-c,48404\/\">a lot of these people<\/a> off Twitter.<\/li>\n<li>The <i>New York Times<\/i>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/05\/books\/review\/100-notable-books-2010.html?_r=1&#038;nl=books&#038;emc=booksupdateema1\">100 Notable Books of 2010<\/a> looks like an interesting list. I&#8217;ve read &#8212; count &#8217;em &#8212; <i>one<\/i> of the books on the list.<\/li>\n<li>I may have discovered a reason to use Facebook as something other than a Scrabble-delivery system: supposedly there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/tech\/847961-monty-python-game-coming-to-facebook\"><i>Monty Python<\/i> game coming soon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2010-11-swede-music-stomach.html\">Swede broadcasts music from his stomach<\/a>. Apparently he was disappointed by the sound quality, however. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Scott McCloud on comics [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]:\n<p><!--copy and paste--><object width=\"334\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/ScottMcCloud_2005-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/ScottMcCloud-2005.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=320&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=432&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=scott_mccloud_on_comics;year=2005;theme=whipsmart_comedy;theme=how_the_mind_works;theme=words_about_words;theme=tales_of_invention;theme=technology_history_and_destiny;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=master_storytellers;event=TED2005;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" pluginspace=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgColor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"334\" height=\"326\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/ScottMcCloud_2005-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/ScottMcCloud-2005.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=320&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=432&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=scott_mccloud_on_comics;year=2005;theme=whipsmart_comedy;theme=how_the_mind_works;theme=words_about_words;theme=tales_of_invention;theme=technology_history_and_destiny;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=master_storytellers;event=TED2005;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I&#8217;m all for preventing the spread of AIDS and everything, but I&#8217;d pay good money to keep a lot of these people off Twitter. The New York Times&#8216; 100 Notable Books of 2010 looks like an interesting list. I&#8217;ve read &#8212; count &#8217;em &#8212; one of the books on the list. I may &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5333\">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":[16,20,35,27,23,15,37,9,38,32,10,142,39],"class_list":["post-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-games","tag-internet","tag-monty-python","tag-music","tag-news","tag-pop-culture","tag-science","tag-twitter","tag-various","tag-video","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333"}],"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=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}