{"id":5401,"date":"2011-02-13T07:23:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T07:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/13\/links-for-2011-02-13\/"},"modified":"2011-02-13T07:23:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T07:23:27","slug":"links-for-2011-02-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/13\/links-for-2011-02-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-02-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pornokitsch.com\/2011\/02\/the-literature-of-ideas2.html\">The Literature of Ideas; or, please stop laughing at me &#8211; pornokitsch<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I can understand the temptation &#8211; and seeing how widely used the phrase has become, clearly I&#8217;m not the only one. Being &#8220;the literature of ideas&#8221; gives science fiction the authority of science. Or broadening it out &#8211; it gives speculative fiction permission to speculate. Yours is the fiction of the kitchen sink, ours is the literature of the future. Your fiction cares only about petty, worldly things &#8211; Booker Prizes and the New York Times Book Review.&nbsp;Our fiction&nbsp;is concerned with more lofty matters &#8211; the future of the human race, or the farthest reaches of the imagination.<\/p>\n<p>There is a triumphant poetry in its very use: &#8220;The Literature of Ideas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, complete bullshit&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html\">7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail (Quickly) | Cracked.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s pretend for a moment that zombies are real (as if half of you weren&#8217;t already daydreaming about that very thing). Have you noticed how most zombie movies take place only after the apocalypse is in full-swing? By the time we join our survivors, the military and government are already wiped out, and none of the streets are safe.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason the movie starts there, and not earlier. It&#8217;s because the early part, where we go from one zombie to millions, doesn&#8217;t make any sense. If you let the creeping buzzkill of logic into the zombie party, you realize the zombies would all be re-dead long before you even got a chance to fire up that chainsaw motorcycle you&#8217;ve been working on. Why?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/cracked\">cracked<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Literature of Ideas; or, please stop laughing at me &#8211; pornokitsch &#8220;I can understand the temptation &#8211; and seeing how widely used the phrase has become, clearly I&#8217;m not the only one. Being &#8220;the literature of ideas&#8221; gives science fiction the authority of science. Or broadening it out &#8211; it gives speculative fiction permission&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/13\/links-for-2011-02-13\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-02-13<\/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-5401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401","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=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}