{"id":5906,"date":"2011-08-07T13:55:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T18:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2011-08-07T13:55:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T18:55:59","slug":"a-post-including-the-word-paradox-and-a-mention-of-g-k-chesterton-but-not-in-the-same-paragraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-post-including-the-word-paradox-and-a-mention-of-g-k-chesterton-but-not-in-the-same-paragraph\/","title":{"rendered":"A post including the word &#8220;paradox&#8221; and a mention of G.K. Chesterton, but not in the same paragraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very miscellaneous links and curiosities.<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/strangeherring.com\/2011\/08\/07\/i-give-my-pastor-a-4-for-cleanliness-but-only-a-2-for-godliness\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lutherans are not Baptists. Catholics are not evangelicals. Methodists are not Presbyterians. Presbyterians are not Anglicans. No one is an Episcopalian<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the same authority, <a href=\"http:\/\/strangeherring.com\/2011\/08\/04\/was-jerry-lewis-kicked-off-the-mda-telethon\/\" target=\"_blank\">an appreciation of Joseph Levitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustbury.com\/archives\/12947\" target=\"_blank\">Paging AC\/DC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drboli.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/06\/ask-dr-boli-130\/\" target=\"_blank\">A paradox of quantum etymology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.php?comic=1870\" target=\"_blank\">Expected real-life Batman generation rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111904800304576474451102761640.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5#articleTabs%3Darticle\" target=\"_blank\">The inverse law of sanity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/05\/how-heavy-metal-is-keeping-us-sane\/8443\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Schopenhauer in the key of E minor: Heavy metal keeps us sane<\/a>. (Yeah, right. Oh, and G.K. Chesterton was a proto-metalhead.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyplace.com\/3080\/the-7-most-brilliantly-pointless-street-fliers\" target=\"_blank\">Tasted like chicken<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is the heat wearing you out? <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/39597\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s plenty of snow at Lassen Volcanic National Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behance.net\/gallery\/Marvel-Minimalist-Posters\/1829335\" target=\"_blank\">Minimalist Marvel posters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to Wonder Woman redesigns, skirts beat pants. Colleen Doran did some &#8220;high fantasy&#8221; concept drawings of WW, which you can see <a href=\"http:\/\/adistantsoil.com\/2011\/07\/25\/jms-wonder-woman-you-didnt-see\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/adistantsoil.com\/2011\/07\/30\/wonder-woman-jim-lee-jms-and-the-pants\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/adistantsoil.com\/2011\/08\/04\/jms-wonder-woman-concept-art-and-tarzan-production-sketch\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-20087594-1\/tokyos-clone-factory-thinks-youre-a-doll\/\" target=\"_blank\">Want your very own action figure, just like Danny Choo<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Who needs real musicians anymore? Who needs real singers? All you need are a computer, some good instrument sample sets and a troupe of Vocaloids. Here&#8217;s a lively twelve-minute musical vaguely based on Lewis Carroll. (I note with annoyance that the Cheshire Nekomimi doesn&#8217;t have a grin.)<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nMcBMlA9hxE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some of the above via <a href=\"http:\/\/therat.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Rat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tappan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tencentticker.com\/projectrooftop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Rooftop<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocaloidism.com\/2011\/08\/02\/alice-in-musicland-a-new-super-kawaii-vocaloid-musical-by-oster-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vocaloidism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very miscellaneous links and curiosities. Quote of the week: Lutherans are not Baptists. Catholics are not evangelicals. Methodists are not Presbyterians. Presbyterians are not Anglicans. No one is an Episcopalian. From the same authority, an appreciation of Joseph Levitch. Paging AC\/DC. A paradox of quantum etymology. Expected real-life Batman generation rate. The inverse law of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-post-including-the-word-paradox-and-a-mention-of-g-k-chesterton-but-not-in-the-same-paragraph\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A post including the word &#8220;paradox&#8221; and a mention of G.K. Chesterton, but not in the same paragraph&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,20,33,34],"tags":[333],"class_list":["post-5906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-and-horror","category-music","category-not-anime","category-weird-world-web","category-whatever","tag-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1xg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}