{"id":5788,"date":"2011-08-05T07:19:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T07:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/05\/links-for-2011-08-05\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T07:19:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T07:19:40","slug":"links-for-2011-08-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/05\/links-for-2011-08-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-08-05"},"content":{"rendered":"
  • Chuck Klosterman on the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction – Grantland<\/a>\n

    "[T]hat’s what’s so weird about the whole Hall of Fame process: The public sees it as an argument, but — within the mind of the elite athlete — it must be one of the most confusing, painfully personal scenarios they’ll ever experience. Being inducted into a Hall of Fame is both the greatest thing that can happen to an athlete and the effective end to his or her cultural import; being rejected by a Hall of Fame is a major blow to one’s self-image and the single-best thing that can happen to a retired player’s legacy. The process is a lose-lose: It’s either good (and then bad) or bad (and then good)."<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  • Tom Bissell on IPad gaming, Angry Birds, Grand Theft Auto – Grantland<\/a>\n

    "[A]fter spending several weeks playing games on my iPad, I can say that the best of them provide as much, if not more, consistent engagement than their console brethren. In fact, a really fine iPad game offers an experience in which many of the impurities of console gaming are boiled away. Many of these pure games — less grandly known as "gamey games" — have little of the narrative ambition (or, to put it less kindly, bloat) typical to console games and, as a consequence, don’t bother trying to push the same emo-cognitive buttons. They get in your head, to be sure, but through different passageways. Another way of saying this is that console games do everything in their power to form a relationship with you, which can be great and rewarding and, just as often, aggravating and tedious. iPad games, on the other hand, are like someone you meet in a bar and find yourself screwing in the bathroom 10 minutes later. This is not a criticism."<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  • Abstruse Goose \u00c2\u00bb ancestors<\/a>\n

    In the immortal words of David St. Hubbins, "too much fucking perspective."<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Chuck Klosterman on the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction – Grantland "[T]hat’s what’s so weird about the whole Hall of Fame process: The public sees it as an argument, but — within the mind of the elite athlete — it must be one of the most confusing, painfully personal scenarios they’ll ever experience. Being… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-05<\/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-5788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788","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=5788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}