{"id":5598,"date":"2011-05-21T08:09:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T08:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/21\/links-for-2011-05-21\/"},"modified":"2011-05-21T08:09:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T08:09:28","slug":"links-for-2011-05-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/21\/links-for-2011-05-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-05-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/camerasim.com\/camera-simulator.html\">SLR Camera Simulator | Simulates a digital SLR camera<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Practice using an SLR camera&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Experiment with the lighting, ISO, aperture, shutter, and distance settings while observing the readings in the camera viewfinder<br \/>\nClick the &#8220;Snap photo!&#8221; button<br \/>\nReview your photo!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/pictures\">pictures<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipreckless.com\/blog\/?p=4589\">Astrogator&#8217;s Logs \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Area 51: Teen Commies from Outer Space!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Jacobsen&#8217;s addition (asserted with a completely straight face and demanding to be taken seriously) is that this craft contained &#8220;genetically\/surgically altered&#8221; teenagers engineered by Josef Mengele at the command of that other monstrous Joseph, Stalin. The modifications had produced uniform results of &#8220;abnormally large heads and eyes&#8221; etc. The goal was to scare the US and weaken its defenses by a repetition of the panic created by Orson Welles&#8217; War of the Worlds 1938 broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Got that? I can safely bet that Hollywood agents are bidding frantically for the rights to the screenplay even as we speak. And so they should &#8212; it&#8217;s a guaranteed blockbuster. It has everything: UFOs, Nazis, Frankenstein monsters, government conspiracies&#8230; It ties so many loose ends together so neatly that it&#8217;s irresistible.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/kooks\">kooks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/punkadiddle.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/pirates-of-caribbean-on-stranger-tides.html\">PUNKADIDDLE: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The end-titles tell us that the film was &#8216;suggested&#8217; by Richard Tim Powers&#8217; On Stranger Tides; a polite fiction, this, since patently the film was &#8216;suggested&#8217; by the fact that the previous three films earned $2.6 billion. And the relationship between book and film is far-fetched even by Hollywood standards. The book&#8217;s pirate, Jack Shandy, is very unlike Depp&#8217;s Sparrow, much more reluctant, introspective and moody. Blackbeard is in the book, though he has no daughter. The whole father-daughter dynamic, something that makes little sense in the movie, is a rather remote distillation of the relationship between an English gentleman called Benjamin Hurwood (driven insane by the death of his wife) and his daughter Beth. Zombies have a rather larger role in the book; they have an afterthought flavour in the movie adapted. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLR Camera Simulator | Simulates a digital SLR camera &#8220;Practice using an SLR camera&#8230; Experiment with the lighting, ISO, aperture, shutter, and distance settings while observing the readings in the camera viewfinder Click the &#8220;Snap photo!&#8221; button Review your photo!&#8221; (tags: technology pictures internet computing) Astrogator&#8217;s Logs \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Area 51: Teen Commies&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/21\/links-for-2011-05-21\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-05-21<\/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-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598","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=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}