{"id":5224,"date":"2010-11-25T07:48:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T07:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/25\/links-for-2010-11-25\/"},"modified":"2010-11-25T07:48:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T07:48:16","slug":"links-for-2010-11-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/25\/links-for-2010-11-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-11-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/survivingtheworld.net\/Lesson811.html\">Surviving the World &#8211; Lesson 811 &#8211; Thanksgiving Parenting<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Thanksgiving is the perfect time of year to evaluate how well you have done as a parent&#8230;&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/comics\">comics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/holiday\">holiday<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmcritic.com\/features\/2010\/11\/a-science-fiction-thanksgiving-grace\/\">John Scalzi &#8211; Saying Thanksgiving Grace, the Science-fictional Way &#8211; Filmcritic.com Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;We also thank you for once again not allowing our technology to gain sentience, to launch our own missiles at us, to send a robot back in time to kill the mother of the human resistance, to enslave us all, and finally to use our bodies as batteries. That doesn&#8217;t even make sense from an energy-management point of view, Lord, and you&#8217;d think the robots would know that. But in your wisdom, you haven&#8217;t made it an issue yet, so thank you.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/scalzi\">scalzi<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2010\/nov\/23\/copyright-digital-rights-cory-doctorow\">Copyright: what do we want it to do? | Technology | guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In my world, copyright&#8217;s purpose is to encourage the widest participation in culture that we can manage &#8211; that is, it should be a system that encourages the most diverse set of creators, creating the most diverse set of works, to reach the most diverse audiences as is practical.<\/p>\n<p>That is, I don&#8217;t want a copyright system that precludes making money on art, since there are some people who make good art who, credibly, would make less of it if there wasn&#8217;t any money to be had. But at the same time, I don&#8217;t think that you can judge a copyright system by how much money it delivers to creators &#8211; imagine a copyright system for films that allowed only one single 15-minute short film to be made every year, which, by dint of its rarity, turned over \u00c2\u00a31bn. If only one person gets to make one movie, I don&#8217;t care how much money the system brings in, it&#8217;s not as good as one in which lots of people get to make lots of movies.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/copyright\">copyright<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/essay\">essay<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/doctorow\">doctorow<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/music\">music<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2010\/11\/settling-accounts.html\">slacktivist: Settling accounts<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;While we&#8217;re on this subject I want to mention a pet peeve of mine &#8212; a phrase frequently employed by Al Mohler and other proponents of creation-ism. It&#8217;s a phrase that bothers me as a lover of the Bible and of stories and of words.<\/p>\n<p>That phrase is &#8220;the creation account&#8221; or &#8220;the creation account in Genesis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book of Genesis offers no such account. It provides a creation story &#8212; more than one, in fact, the first 11 chapters are nothing but origin stories. But it most decidedly does not provide an account of creation.<\/p>\n<p>An account is testimony, witnesses telling what they have seen. The speaker or writer &#8212; the one giving the account &#8212; does not need to be a direct witness herself. She may be a journalist or a historian compiling the testimony of others. But without some basis in such testimony from actual witnesses we haven&#8217;t got what we can call an account.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/religion\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktivist\">slacktivist<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surviving the World &#8211; Lesson 811 &#8211; Thanksgiving Parenting &#8220;Thanksgiving is the perfect time of year to evaluate how well you have done as a parent&#8230;&#8221; (tags: comics internet silly holiday) John Scalzi &#8211; Saying Thanksgiving Grace, the Science-fictional Way &#8211; Filmcritic.com Feature &#8220;We also thank you for once again not allowing our technology to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/25\/links-for-2010-11-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-11-25<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}