{"id":6293,"date":"2011-03-29T18:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T22:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2011-03-29T16:31:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T20:31:35","slug":"tuesday-various-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6293","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Peter Jackson <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2011\/03\/peter-jackson-changing-th.php\">adding more female roles to <i>The Hobbit<\/i><\/a>? On the one hand, I&#8217;m all for this. More strong female characters all around, yes, thank you. On the other hand, there&#8217;s a part of me that wants to shout, &#8220;But it&#8217;s not in the book!&#8221; On the <i>other<\/i> other hand, I find myself surprisingly unenthusiastic about the whole thing. Maybe I&#8217;ve just had my fill of Peter Jackson Tolkein movies.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Tolkein, though, apparently the Eye of Sauron is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coasttocoastam.com\/article\/the-eye-of-sauron\">at the center of spiral galaxy NGC 4151<\/a>. Who knew? [<a href=\"twitter.com\/sethgreen\" title=\"@sethgreen\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/how-i-passed-my-us-citizenship-test-by-keeping-the-right-answers-to-myself\">How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]\n<li>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2011_03_24.html#020421\">this post<\/a>, Mark Evanier relayed something that several people had told him via e-mail &#8212; namely that &#8220;Map-makers sometimes include phony names and places on maps in order to identify when someone plagiarizes their work.&#8221; I&#8217;d never heard of this practice, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plagiarismtoday.com\/2006\/08\/16\/copyright-easter-eggs\/\">apparently it&#8217;s quite common<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, people will tell you &#8212; professional writers and editors will tell you &#8212; don&#8217;t respond to negative reviews. It&#8217;s a losing game, even if you think you&#8217;re right. Even if you <i>are<\/i> right. But one thing&#8217;s for certain: you should never, ever, <i>ever<\/i> respond to a negative review <a href=\"http:\/\/booksandpals.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/greek-seaman-jacqueline-howett.html\">like this<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/\" title=\"John Scalzi\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Jackson adding more female roles to The Hobbit? On the one hand, I&#8217;m all for this. More strong female characters all around, yes, thank you. On the other hand, there&#8217;s a part of me that wants to shout, &#8220;But it&#8217;s not in the book!&#8221; On the other other hand, I find myself surprisingly unenthusiastic &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6293\">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":[156,89,27,91,14,38,113,10,12],"class_list":["post-6293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-copyright","tag-fantasy","tag-internet","tag-maps","tag-movies","tag-science","tag-space","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293"}],"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=6293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}