{"id":3470,"date":"2011-02-20T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2011-02-20T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T14:55:13","slug":"grumbling-and-muttering-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/grumbling-and-muttering-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grumbling and muttering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Dennou Coil<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/cyber-coil-download-type\/id419109265\">is finally available<\/a> \u2014 if you have an iToy. I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Watching <strong><em>Fractale<\/em><\/strong> is becoming more and more of a chore. Are Enri&#8217;s antics supposed to be funny? I&#8217;m not laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Yamakan thinks anime today is in bad shape. His solution is to ape Miyazaki. I&#8217;m reminded of the Pre-Raphaelites, who sought to revitalize art by returning to their notion of the middle ages. Their paintings make for pretty calendars, but they aren&#8217;t exactly great art.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of computer animation involving quilting and Celtic music:<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s see some quilting using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yK4P17Lsp2A\">Penrose<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pyg0f27kKXw\">tiles<\/a>, ideally with a klezmer soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dotclue.org\/archives\/003722.html\">No<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2011\/01\/the-5-best-toys-of-all-time\/all\/1\">The five best toys of all time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Bonus link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifiwright.com\/2011\/02\/steampunk-is-a-diabolical-czech-invention\/\">John C. Wright has discovered the origin of steampunk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennou Coil is finally available \u2014 if you have an iToy. I don&#8217;t. ***** Watching Fractale is becoming more and more of a chore. Are Enri&#8217;s antics supposed to be funny? I&#8217;m not laughing. Yamakan thinks anime today is in bad shape. His solution is to ape Miyazaki. I&#8217;m reminded of the Pre-Raphaelites, who sought &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/grumbling-and-muttering-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grumbling and muttering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos","tag-denno-coil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-TY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}