{"id":7967,"date":"2011-12-22T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T23:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7967"},"modified":"2011-12-22T22:14:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T03:14:38","slug":"thursday-various-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7967","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/green_room\/2011\/11\/seti_and_the_problems_with_searching_for_alien_life_.single.html\">SETI and the problems with searching for alien life<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postmodernbarney.com\/2011\/11\/the-freest-free-space-ever\/\">Grant Morrison Comic Bingo<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiveruin.com\/\" title=\"Progressive Ruin\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2011\/11\/25\/ask-chris-81-scooby-doo-and-secular-humanism\/\">Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>To paraphrase G.K. Chesterton, <i>Scooby Doo<\/i> has value not because it shows us that there are monsters, but because it shows us that those monsters are just the products of evil people who want to make us too afraid to see through their lies, and goes a step further by giving us a blueprint that shows exactly how to defeat them. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/london-baker-makes-102000-cupcakes-groupon-deal-2011-11\">The darker side of Groupon<\/a>. Apparently it kind of sucks for small businesses. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/thejillthompson\" title=\"@thejillthompson\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/07\/dining\/the-myths-at-the-bar-debunked.html?_r=2\">The Myths at the Bar, Debunked<\/a>\n<li>The harrowing story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/print-this\/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877?page=all\">What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447<\/a>. Warning: you almost certainly will not want to fly after reading this. (Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/apple\/faa-approves-ipads-in-the-cockpit-american-airlines-to-start-friday\/11865\">FAA approves iPads in the cockpit<\/a>.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/paolobacigalupi\" title=\"@paolobacigalupi\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The AV Club compiles a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/when-5-cents-is-too-high-a-price-26-destructive-fi,66320\/?\">26 destructive fictional therapists<\/a>. I keep thinking there&#8217;s maybe a book in this, but that&#8217;s maybe just my day job talking.<\/li>\n<li>When William Gibson wrote, &#8220;The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel,&#8221; did he really mean Fox News? <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5866014\/\">Does Newt Gingrich want to make <i>Neuromancer<\/i> come true?<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/GreatDismal\" title=\"@GreatDismal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2011\/12\/star-trek-people-drinking-coffee\">Star Trek People Drinking Coffee<\/a>. Does exactly what it says on the tin.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, the lovely video for &#8220;In Your Arms&#8221; by Kina Grannis. After, I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cIH4MJAC2Tg&#038;feature=relmfu\">the making-of video<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/\" title=\"Jon Scalzi\">via<\/a>]\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IOu0DuxFAT0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SETI and the problems with searching for alien life [via] Grant Morrison Comic Bingo [via] Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism: To paraphrase G.K. Chesterton, Scooby Doo has value not because it shows us that there are monsters, but because it shows us that those monsters are just the products of evil people who want to make &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7967\">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":[107,121,112,128,93,20,186,210,42,126,149,15,28,6,9,157,11,38,113,34,17,10,7],"class_list":["post-7967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-alcohol","tag-aliens","tag-business","tag-cartoons","tag-coffee","tag-comics","tag-criticism","tag-flying","tag-futurism","tag-geeky","tag-humor","tag-music","tag-personal","tag-politics","tag-pop-culture","tag-psychology","tag-publishing","tag-science","tag-space","tag-star-trek","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967"}],"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=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}