{"id":662,"date":"2006-09-09T21:20:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T01:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/09\/saturday-link-blogging\/"},"modified":"2006-09-09T22:29:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T02:29:58","slug":"saturday-link-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/saturday-link-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Link-blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I wish more North Americans had travelled enough to have a picture of how the world really is, outside of North America. Watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miniature-earth.com\/\">the miniature earth movie<\/a> is a good way to start getting the idea, without spending years travelling.<\/li>\n<li>Think that the $8.3 trillion dollar national debt that Bush reports is a sign of absolute unmitigated fiscal disaster? What if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/articles\/alerts\/105\">the real value was actually $49 trillion<\/a>, and it had more than doubled on Bush&#8217;s watch?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/5-movie-classics-free-and-legal-on-bittorrent\/\">Free legal downloads<\/a> of Vincent Price movies <strong>and<\/strong> Little Shop of Horrors? Sign me up.<\/li>\n<li>You know that whole &#8220;Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse&#8221; line? You don&#8217;t want to do that.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/0906061grave1.html\">Especially not in Wisconsin.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Do you know the stories from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramayana\">Ramayana<\/a><footnote>Or have you seen those Bollywood movies? Did you get the Hanuman gag in that <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/28\/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen\/\">post of mine<\/a> a while back?<\/footnote>? If you do, you might be interested in Nina Paley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninapaley.com\/Sitayana\/\">Sita-positive animated interpretations of the stories<\/a>, richly laden with blues vocals. If you don&#8217;t, you might like this as an introduction to the stories. Either way, I recommend checking out at least <a href=\"http:\/\/clusterfunction.com\/video\/ninapaleydotcom\/Sitayana\/HereWeAre.mov\">the first chapter<\/a>, to get your fill of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninapaley.com\/Sitayana\/SitaJpegs\/01.FlyingDemons.jpg\">flying eyeball snakes<\/a>. (And if you dig that, go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninapaley.com\/\">her other stuff<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<li>Maybe it&#8217;s time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2006\/9\/8\/15519\/63475\">think about the Declaration of Independence in a new light<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I wish more North Americans had travelled enough to have a picture of how the world really is, outside of North America. Watching the miniature earth movie is a good way to start getting the idea, without spending years travelling. Think that the $8.3 trillion dollar national debt that Bush reports is a sign of absolute unmitigated fiscal disaster? What&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/saturday-link-blogging\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-explodes","category-linkapalooza","category-political","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-aG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}