{"id":3764,"date":"2006-12-22T00:42:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T08:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/12\/22\/3764.html"},"modified":"2006-12-22T00:42:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T08:42:15","slug":"items-in-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/12\/22\/items-in-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: In other news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seems like there's been a whole bunch of other news and quasinews and other items of interest lately.  Some notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The final Harry Potter book's title has been released: <cite>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li>There's going to be a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/News-Views\/Interviews-Features\/Article\/default.aspx?posting={0C084F89-5673-43B9-9FFC-022578DAA927}\"><cite>Buffy<\/cite> comic<\/a>, which Joss Whedon says will be sort of like an eighth season of the TV show.<\/li>\n<li>I'm pleased to report that the California state Assembly has a sense of humor, as evidenced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceref.com\/news\/viewsr.html?pid=21982\">California Assembly Bill HR 36 Relative to Pluto's planetary status<\/a>.  Apparently this used to be on the state government's website, but it's been taken down, presumably because the bill didn't pass?  Not sure.  \"WHEREAS, The mean-spirited International Astronomical Union decided on August 24, 2006, to disrespect Pluto by stripping Pluto of its planetary status and reclassifying it as a lowly dwarf planet[....]\"  And so on; worth reading the whole thing.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of state legislatures, I imagine that everyone who cares has heard by now that New Jersey now legally allows same-sex civil unions. Opinion on all sides is divided; anti-same-sex-marriage people say this goes too far, while pro-same-sex-marriage people say it doesn't go far enough.<\/li>\n<li>Also, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allheadlinenews.com\/articles\/7005928933\">California Supreme Court has agreed to address the same-sex marriage issue<\/a>, but hasn't set a date (as it were). (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allheadlinenews.com\/articles\/7005928457\">Another article<\/a> speculates that there likely won't be a decision 'til around the end of next year.)<\/li>\n<li>I've been following the news of space shuttle Discovery's current mission, but haven't gotten around to posting about it 'til now.  It's <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-12-21T235557Z_01_N19207251_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SPACE-SHUTTLE-DC.XML&WTmodLoc=SciHealth-C3-Science-3\">cleared for landing on Friday<\/a>; I'll keep my fingers (metaphorically) crossed for a safe return trip.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2513322,00.html\">Komodo dragon has exhibited parthenogenesis<\/a>--something that's been known to happen with other lizards, but we didn't previously know Komodo dragons could do it.  (Article notes: \"Scientists say it is truly immaculate.\" I suppose it would be pointless for me to once again point out that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Immaculate_conception\">Immaculate Conception<\/a> was the conception of <em>Mary<\/em>, not the virgin birth.)<\/li>\n<li>The winter solstice appears to have happened right on schedule this afternoon, but I wasn't paying attention. I was reading a submission at the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like there&#8217;s been a whole bunch of other news and quasinews and other items of interest lately. Some notes:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","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=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}