{"id":6262,"date":"2011-03-24T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2011-03-24T14:21:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:21:36","slug":"thursday-various-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6262","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Today is Harry Houdini&#8217;s birthday. In honor of that, here&#8217;s a look at his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/4046162873\">Scene and Prop List<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/glinner\" title=\"@glinner\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know&#8230; ordering the removal of a mural depicting your state&#8217;s labor history from the lobby of your state&#8217;s Department of Labor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/state\/story\/1004031\">seems like kind of a dick move<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/zhandlen\" title=\"@zhandlen\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>As, frankly, do these <a href=\"http:\/\/bittman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/15\/more-on-farm-animal-protection\/\">new farm &#8220;protection&#8221; bills<\/a> discussed by Mark Bittman &#8212; although, there, there&#8217;s some dangerous precedent being set:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The Florida bill would require anyone wishing to photograph a farm to first secure written permission from the owner. And what if they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t? First-degree felony. The implicit goal here is to deter and criminalize damning undercover expos\u00c3\u00a9s&#8230;.The bill would also make it illegal for an agenda-less passerby to snap a picture of a farm from the side of the road, but my best guess is that those \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crimes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d might not be prosecuted quite so diligently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/starwars.com\/movies\/episode-i\/3dannouncedate\/index.html\">The Phantom Menace in 3-D<\/a>? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me&#8230;oh, god, what is this? Like the at least the sixth or seventh time? Shame very obviously on me, George Lucas, but I will <i>not<\/i> be going to see this. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/showbiz-and-lifestyle\/arts-in-wales\/2011\/03\/05\/the-life-and-times-of-monty-python-s-terry-jones-91466-28274298\/\">an interview with Terry Jones<\/a>. He discusses, among other things, <i>Monty Python<\/i>&#8216;s less than certain start:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>I mean, even right up until the middle of the second series John Cleese\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mum was still sending him job adverts for supermarket managers cut out from her local newspaper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Harry Houdini&#8217;s birthday. In honor of that, here&#8217;s a look at his Scene and Prop List. [via] I don&#8217;t know&#8230; ordering the removal of a mural depicting your state&#8217;s labor history from the lobby of your state&#8217;s Department of Labor seems like kind of a dick move. [via] As, frankly, do these new &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6262\">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":[67,110,92,104,195,83,138,23,14,30,10],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-animals","tag-history","tag-interviews","tag-labor","tag-legal","tag-magic","tag-monty-python","tag-movies","tag-photos","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262"}],"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=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}