{"id":7961,"date":"2011-12-21T18:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7961"},"modified":"2011-12-21T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T21:15:13","slug":"wednesday-various-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7961","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifisweetheart.tumblr.com\/post\/14454197770\/austinbosley-inthedeviltown-it-hurts-that\">Tintin&#8217;s Lovecraftian Adventures<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Along the same lines: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2011\/12\/16\/if-herge-created-xmen\/\">What If&#8230;Herge Created the X-Men<\/a>?\n<li>And also, <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5855304\/what-if-charles-schulz-illustrated-hp-lovecraft\">what if Charles Schulz illustrated H.P. Lovecraft<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Today in infographics: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5866306\/the-rules-of-magic-according-to-the-greatest-fantasy-sagas-of-all-time\">The Rules of Magic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabletv.com\/doctor-who-timeline\"><i>Doctor Who<\/i> Timeline<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2011\/09\/16\/colourlovers-comic-colors-infographic\/\">Good Versus Evil in the Superhero Comic Color Palette<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\" title=\"Tor.com\">via<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The truly odd story of New York&#8217;s Hartwick College and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laphamsquarterly.org\/essays\/trust-issues.php?page=all\">their &#8220;Methuselah&#8221; trust<\/a> from a one-time benefactor:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Because thanks to an eccentric New York lawyer in the 1930s, this college in a corner of the Catskills inherited a thousand-year trust that would not mature until the year 2936: a gift whose accumulated compound interest, the New York Times reported in 1961, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153could ultimately shatter the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s financial structure.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The mossy stone walls and ivy-covered brickwork of Hartwick College were a ticking time-bomb of compounding interest\u00e2\u20ac\u201da very, very slowly ticking time bomb.<\/p>\n<p>One suspects they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have rather gotten a new squash court. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sorry, folks on my Christmas list: <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/11\/us_attorney_mailing_chicken_pox_lollipops_is_ill.php\">Mailing Chicken Pox Lollipops Is Illegal, Reckless<\/a>. Maybe just a card? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoutingny.com\/?p=4653\">A Tree Grows in Queens (Right Through An Auto Body Shop!)<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/GreatDismal\" title=\"@GreatDismal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sure. Alternate realities. You could have, like, a world without shrimp. Or with, you know, nothing but shrimp&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; Anya\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn21251-first-top-predator-was-giant-shrimp-with-amazing-eyes.html\">First top predator was giant shrimp with amazing eyes<\/a>. (&#8220;You have <i>amazing<\/i> eyes! Please don&#8217;t eat me, giant killer shrimp!&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/12\/14\/the-higgs-boson-why-scientists-hate-that-you-call-it-the-god-particle\/\">The Higgs boson: Why scientists hate that you call it the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGod particle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/JadAbumrad\" title=\"@JadAbumrad\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Bobby McFerin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]:\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0gjreHt0tRI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tintin&#8217;s Lovecraftian Adventures Along the same lines: What If&#8230;Herge Created the X-Men? And also, what if Charles Schulz illustrated H.P. Lovecraft? [via] Today in infographics: The Rules of Magic, Doctor Who Timeline, and Good Versus Evil in the Superhero Comic Color Palette [via and via] The truly odd story of New York&#8217;s Hartwick College and &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7961\">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":[110,19,20,18,89,5,149,167,83,164,138,60,15,187,54,37,132,63,117,38,10,142],"class_list":["post-7961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-animals","tag-art","tag-comics","tag-doctor-who","tag-fantasy","tag-health","tag-humor","tag-infographics","tag-legal","tag-lovecraft","tag-magic","tag-money","tag-music","tag-nature","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-parody","tag-religion","tag-schools","tag-science","tag-various","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961"}],"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=7961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}