{"id":7273,"date":"2011-08-31T18:30:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T22:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7273"},"modified":"2011-08-30T21:03:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T01:03:16","slug":"wednesday-various-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7273","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/3cbfe82cce\/obama-s-kickstarter-campaign-to-solve-the-debt\">Obama&#8217;s Kickstarter Campaign to Solve the Debt<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.Waxy.org\/Links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>On a more serious note, an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/07\/magazine\/the-trivialities-and-transcendence-of-kickstarter.html?_r=1&#038;pagewanted=all\">look inside Kickstarter itself<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5829403\/moores-law-may-soon-be-broken\">Moore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Law may soon be broken<\/a>. Whither the Singularity? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5829204\/if-male-superheroes-posed-like-wonder-woman\">If Male Superheroes Posed Like Wonder Woman<\/a>. We&#8217;ve seen this sort of thing before, but&#8230;well, that there is part of the problem, isn&#8217;t it? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Matthew Cheney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slantmagazine.com\/house\/2011\/08\/summer-of-86-stand-by-me-take-two\/\">revisits the movie <i>Stand By Me<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>When I was ten, <i>Stand By Me<\/i> felt like the apex of realism because I&#8217;d never encountered a character who seemed so much like me as Gordie did. Twenty-five years later, it feels real for opposite reasons: for its naked artificiality. It gets right the way we shore up our fading memories by turning them into stories, by setting a soundtrack to them, by finding just the right words for every conversation and just the right lessons for every walk down the railroad tracks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama&#8217;s Kickstarter Campaign to Solve the Debt [via] On a more serious note, an interesting look inside Kickstarter itself. Moore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Law may soon be broken. Whither the Singularity? [via] If Male Superheroes Posed Like Wonder Woman. We&#8217;ve seen this sort of thing before, but&#8230;well, that there is part of the problem, isn&#8217;t it? [via] And &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7273\">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":[67,20,50,27,60,14,6,69,43,10,142],"class_list":["post-7273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-comics","tag-funny","tag-internet","tag-money","tag-movies","tag-politics","tag-sexism","tag-tech","tag-various","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273"}],"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=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}