{"id":5349,"date":"2010-12-08T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T23:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5349"},"modified":"2010-12-08T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T21:21:08","slug":"wednesday-various-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5349","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/abbeyroad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/abbeyroad-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Abbey Road\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5350\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li>I neglected to mention yesterday &#8212; but will probably mention several times between now and the end of the year &#8212; that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/?page_id=17\">subscriptions to Kaleidotrope<\/a> are currently 50% off. That&#8217;s four issues of quirky and original stories and poems for just $9 total ($14 outside of the US and Canada)! Just apply the coupon code &#8220;HOLIDAYS2010&#8221; to your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/?page_id=17\">online order<\/a> between now and December 31 to take advantage of these end-of-the-year savings!<\/li>\n<li>In other, non-self-promoting news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2010\/nov\/28\/scientists-reverse-ageing-mice-humans\">Harvard scientists reverse the aging process in mice<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BillCorbett\" title=\"@BillCorbett\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/need-to-know\/the-daily-need\/if-we-erase-our-memories-do-we-erase-ourselves\/5322\/\">If we erase our memories, do we erase ourselves?<\/a> One step closer to <i>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/i>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/28\/business\/28borker.html?_r=2&#038;pagewanted=all\">a fascinating story<\/a> of an eyeglasses retailer turning bad (and possibly criminal) customer service into its main profit model.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, on the thirtieth anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Lennon\">John Lennon<\/a>&#8216;s death, to the left, a photo before a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abbey_Road\">fateful and happier moment<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I neglected to mention yesterday &#8212; but will probably mention several times between now and the end of the year &#8212; that subscriptions to Kaleidotrope are currently 50% off. That&#8217;s four issues of quirky and original stories and poems for just $9 total ($14 outside of the US and Canada)! Just apply the coupon code &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5349\">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":[33,112,27,4,37,38,10],"class_list":["post-5349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-beatles","tag-business","tag-internet","tag-kaleidotrope","tag-news","tag-science","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349"}],"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=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}