{"id":6612,"date":"2011-05-17T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T22:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6612"},"modified":"2011-05-15T18:53:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T22:53:55","slug":"tuesday-various-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6612","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/feb\/22\/zadie-smith-rules-for-writers\">Zadie Smith&#8217;s rules for writers<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/\" title=\"Gwenda Bond\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;All these worlds are yours except Europa&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-05-ocean-titan.html\">and possibly Titan<\/a>.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/monkeysee\/2011\/04\/21\/135508305\/the-sad-beautiful-fact-that-were-all-going-to-miss-almost-everything?ft=1&#038;f=93568166\">The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We&#8217;re All Going To Miss Almost Everything<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s sad, but it&#8217;s also &#8230; <i>great<\/i>, really. Imagine if you&#8217;d seen everything good, or if you knew about everything good. Imagine if you really got to all the recordings and books and movies you&#8217;re &#8220;supposed to see.&#8221; Imagine you got through everybody&#8217;s list, until everything you hadn&#8217;t read didn&#8217;t really need reading. That would imply that all the cultural value the world has managed to produce since a glob of primordial ooze first picked up a violin is so tiny and insignificant that a single human being can gobble all of it in one lifetime. That would make us failures, I think. [<a href=\"http:\/\/maximumverbosit.blogspot.com\" title=\"Maximum Verbosity\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>So long and thanks for all the fish: <a href=\"http:\/\/techland.time.com\/2011\/05\/09\/underwater-translator-may-finally-let-us-talk-to-dolphins\/\">Underwater Translator May Finally Let Us Talk to Dolphins<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, My Little 11th Doctor [<a href=\"http:\/www.sfsignal.com\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]:\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/73898356\/11th-doctor-amy-pond-custom-my-little?image_id=243257545\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/il_570xN.243257569.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"il_570xN.243257569\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6613\" \/><\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zadie Smith&#8217;s rules for writers: When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would. [via] &#8220;All these worlds are yours except Europa&#8230;and possibly Titan.&#8221; [via] The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We&#8217;re All Going To Miss Almost Everything: It&#8217;s sad, but it&#8217;s also &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6612\">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":[110,65,22,18,9,38,10,12],"class_list":["post-6612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-animals","tag-astronomy","tag-cute","tag-doctor-who","tag-pop-culture","tag-science","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612"}],"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=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}