{"id":8968,"date":"2012-06-26T18:30:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T22:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8968"},"modified":"2012-06-26T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T20:31:10","slug":"tuesday-various-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8968","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure I love this idea enough to actually <i>follow<\/i> them, but Matthew Baldwin did a neat thing: he created two Twitter bots, <a href=\"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/2012\/06\/15\/textadventurer\/\">one playing <i>Zork<\/i>, and the other responding as the game<\/a>. I&#8217;m actually more interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/thcnet.net\/zork\/\">replaying the game itself<\/a>, but still, it&#8217;s pretty neat.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/06\/22\/why-nigerian-e-mail-scams-are-so-crude-and-obvious\/\">Why Nigerian e-mail scams are so crude and obvious<\/a>? Turns out, it may be on purpose. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>So the hitchhiker who said he was writing a book about human kindness only to be shot by a driver&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/missoulian.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/sheriff-hitchhiker-writing-book-on-kindness-shot-himself\/article_9b61b8ba-b70e-11e1-adcc-001a4bcf887a.html\">actually shot himself<\/a>. So, um, I guess that&#8217;s one for humanity then&#8230;? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not convinced any of these sounds are necessarily worth preserving, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/savethesounds.info\/\">Museum of Endangered Sounds<\/a> is an intriguing idea. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2012\/06\/how-to-write-your-own-aaron-sorkin-character-name.html\">Three Simple Tips to Writing Your Own Aaron Sorkin Character Name<\/a>. He must have hated writing a character named Mark Zuckerberg.\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S78RzZr3IwI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What can you say? The man has a formula.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure I love this idea enough to actually follow them, but Matthew Baldwin did a neat thing: he created two Twitter bots, one playing Zork, and the other responding as the game. I&#8217;m actually more interested in replaying the game itself, but still, it&#8217;s pretty neat. Why Nigerian e-mail scams are so crude &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8968\">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":[35,27,37,9,188,17,32,10,142,12],"class_list":["post-8968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-games","tag-internet","tag-news","tag-pop-culture","tag-spam","tag-tv","tag-twitter","tag-various","tag-video","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968"}],"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=8968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}