{"id":7050,"date":"2011-07-27T18:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T22:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7050"},"modified":"2011-07-27T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T20:13:09","slug":"wednesday-various-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7050","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not really sure why you&#8217;d <i>want<\/i> bots to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mchrbn.net\/fcbt\/\">pretend to be you<\/a> on social network sites, and the confused grammar of the fine print doesn&#8217;t really make things clearer [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The bot does not born with a fictitious identity, but will be added to the real identity of the user to modify it at his convenience. Thus, this bot can be seen as a virtual prothesis [sic] added to an user&#8217;s account. With the aim to help him to forge a digital identity of what he would really like to be and by trying to build a greater social reputation for the user. Moreover, this bot can be perceived as a threat by defrauding even more the reality of who is really who on social networks and by showing the poverty of our social interactions on these so-called social networks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/the-eternal-shame-of-your-first-online-handle\/\">The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle<\/a>. I dunno, I&#8217;m still using mine <a href=\"http:\/\/hipsoda.com\/jazz\/gallery\/cappers.php?who=UnReality\">on a regular basis<\/a>. (Though it predates my capping <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ImagiNation_Network\">by a couple of years<\/a>.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Guess the film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wherethelovelythingsare.com\/home\/blog-the-final-image.html\">by the final image<\/a>. I got less than half. Slightly spoilery, for some films more than others. Of course, I can&#8217;t tell you <i>which<\/i> films without ruining the whole thing. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>A wonderfully detailed analysis of <a href=\"http:\/\/serialconsign.com\/2011\/07\/rob-ager-spatial-awareness-shining\">set design and spatial awareness in <i>The Shining<\/i><\/a>. He concludes, I think rightly, that a lot (if not all) of these &#8220;errors&#8221; were intentional, meant to disorient and unnerve viewers who would, maybe only subconsciously, pick up on the impossibility of the architecture. It gets to the heart of something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1704\">I&#8217;ve discussed with enthusiasm before<\/a>: using lies in fiction to tell the truth, creating a <i>more<\/i> believable world by adding <i>less<\/i> real elements. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/16\/view\/15557\/tesco-virtual-supermarket-in-a-subway-station.html\">a virtual supermarket in a subway station<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not really sure why you&#8217;d want bots to pretend to be you on social network sites, and the confused grammar of the fine print doesn&#8217;t really make things clearer [via]: The bot does not born with a fictitious identity, but will be added to the real identity of the user to modify it at &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7050\">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":[146,202,27,14,10],"class_list":["post-7050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-consumerism","tag-fiction","tag-internet","tag-movies","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050"}],"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=7050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}