{"id":289,"date":"2007-06-08T08:28:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T12:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2007-06-08T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T12:28:41","slug":"dreaming-of-sweden-and-stranger-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming of Sweden and stranger things."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>One title liked by Granta for my new book is <em>Dreaming of Sweden.<\/em> Does this explain why, one recent morning, I said in an authoritative tone, as if soothing a nervous diner, <span class=\"loony\">We have <em>boiled<\/em> Lapps; we have <em>stuffed<\/em> Lapps<\/span> about ten minutes before I woke up?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rc3.org\">Rafe<\/a> drew my attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingawful.com\/d\/news\/wikigroaning.php\">this.<\/a> By the time I got to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Love\">Love<\/a> vs <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masturbation\">masturbation<\/a> I was shouting with laughter, but I had to stop altogether at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_conflicts_in_the_Middle_East\">List of Conflicts in the Middle East<\/a>  vs. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_furry_role-playing_games\">List of Furry Role-playing games<\/a> because I was laughing so hard I could not breathe. That has to be the right response, doesn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\nCertainly, this game seems to me the complete refutation of John Naughton&#8217;s optimism about the wiki project, <a href=\"http:\/\/memex.naughtons.org\/archives\/2007\/06\/07\/4107\">most recently on display<\/a> when he is shocked that the site&#8217;s history of spreadsheets is grossly inadequate.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=6045947\">most charming geek joke<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/\">the empire<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One title liked by Granta for my new book is Dreaming of Sweden. Does this explain why, one recent morning, I said in an authoritative tone, as if soothing a nervous diner, We have boiled Lapps; we have stuffed Lapps &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=289\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=289\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}