{"id":1950,"date":"2004-04-08T23:07:11","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T06:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/04\/08\/1950.html"},"modified":"2004-04-08T23:07:11","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T06:07:11","slug":"more-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/04\/08\/more-links\/","title":{"rendered":"More links"},"content":{"rendered":"\n <p>I&#8217;m trying to clear out the backlog of web pages that&#8217;ve been sitting open on my computer for the past week or so.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Courtesy of <cite>Wired,<\/cite> an item about a guy who wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.04\/holyland.html\">create an airborne hologram of the Temple in Jerusalem<\/a> to bring about the end days.  His plan involves &#8220;an array of high-powered, water-cooled lasers [being fired] into a transparent cube suspended beneath a blimp.&#8221;  Holograms, airships, and religion&#8212;what more could you want?  (Apparently, though, some people (and the <cite>Left Behind<\/cite> books?) suggest that the original Temple was really somewhere nearby, rather than right where the Dome of the Rock is; that approach would, alas, eliminate the need for blimps and lasers.)<\/li>\n<li>Fascinating piece by British sf author Adam Roberts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thealienonline.net\/columns\/rcsf_metaphor_mar04.asp\">metaphor and sf<\/a>.  Warning: contains critical theory, also some Heinlein-bashing.  Ultra-brief version of my own rather simpler views on the subject: some of the best sf works on both a literal level and a metaphorical level, but I also find lots of value in stories that aren&#8217;t primarily metaphorical&#8212;for example, in stories that would be naturalistic fiction if the world and\/or universe were other than they are.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bookofratings.com\/\">Book of Ratings<\/a> apparently rates things.  It currently features ratings related to aspects of pirates.  Accents get an A-, while Walking the Plank gets only a D.<\/li>\n<li>Some excellent and funny pictograms and awful or silly writing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenbarefoot.com\/hall\/\">Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness<\/a>, much of which doesn&#8217;t really have anything to do with tech docs.  The tenth image, the crankcase collar diagram, is rather un-work-safe even though it&#8217;s from a motorcycle shop manual.<\/li>\n<li>This week&#8217;s <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiction\/\">SCI FICTION<\/a><\/cite> features a novelette by Elizabeth Bear and a reprint by Manly Wade Wellman, and if only I can dig up some time somewhere, I&#8217;m looking forward to reading both of them soon.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinitematrix.net\/\">The Infinite Matrix<\/a><\/cite> is running a weekly &#8220;unblog&#8221; by Howard Waldrop.  It can&#8217;t be a blog, because Howard doesn&#8217;t have a computer or a Net connection; I&#8217;m guessing he&#8217;s papermailing his entries (okay, I guess you can call them &#8220;columns&#8221; if you want to) to Eileen.<\/li>\n<li>If you want to use spiffy curved\/slanted quotation marks in your journal entries instead of straight up-and-down ones, you may want to try the <a href=\"http:\/\/photomatt.net\/tools\/texturize\">texturizer<\/a>. If you&#8217;d rather do the conversion on your own than use a web page, there&#8217;s a similar (but apparently not quite as smart) <a href=\"http:\/\/sedition.com\/perl\/quotes.html\">smart quotes utility in Perl<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faganfinder.com\/translate\/identify.php\">Language Identifier<\/a> analyzes text you enter and tells you what language it&#8217;s in, without actually translating it.<\/li>\n<li>Apparently the latest fashion in the Netherlands is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&u=\/nm\/20040407\/od_uk_nm\/oukoe_odd_eye\">implanting tiny jewelry in the mucous membrane of the eye<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I\u2019m trying to clear out the backlog of web pages that\u2019ve been sitting open on my computer for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}