{"id":1174,"date":"2009-07-14T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2009-07-14T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:13:00","slug":"gallimaufry-with-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry with Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RZwM3GvaTRM\">Buffy versus Edward <\/a>(of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1099212\/\">Twilight<\/a>). Nice creative remix; too bad about the different color palates. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/odiousandpeculiar.blogspot.com\/\">Odious and Peculiar<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Napoleon was [not] short, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_17548_6-facts-about-historic-figures-their-enemies-made-up.html\">five other &#8220;facts&#8221; about historical figures<\/a> that their enemies made up. (That process is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reclusiveleftist.com\/2009\/07\/04\/feminists-and-the-mystery-of-sarah-palin\/#more-4325\">still going on<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_Coupland\">Douglas Coupland<\/a> mused on the <a href=\"http:\/\/mrulster.org\/2009\/01\/the-mac-at-25-intelligent-life.html\">25th anniversary of Macintosh computers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>PCs can sort of mimic the effortless transmodality of the Mac, but they&#8217;re way crashier, and their clunky interfaces make you feel like you&#8217;re in East Berlin circa 1974 while everyone in the West has already entered a funner, smarter future, the other side of that pesky wall.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Buffy versus Edward (of Twilight). Nice creative remix; too bad about the different color palates. (Via Odious and Peculiar.) \u2022 Napoleon was [not] short, and five other &#8220;facts&#8221; about historical figures that their enemies made up. (That process is still going on.) Novelist Douglas Coupland mused on the 25th anniversary of Macintosh computers: PCs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36,22],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-iW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}