{"id":45,"date":"2006-04-21T06:07:29","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T10:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2006-04-21T06:07:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T10:07:29","slug":"some-short-silly-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Some short silly links"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>The man whose <a href=\"http:\/\/snailstales.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/mmmworms.html\">idea of fun<\/a> is picking through slug shit to find what they&#8217;ve been eating. With his son.<\/li>\n<li>The Peter McKay column in the <em>Mail<\/em> claims &#8212; I can&#8217;t find this anywhere online &#8212; that the in-house beauticians at a Miami hotel where Gianni Versace was shot <span class=\"sane\">&#8220;will dye the pubic hair of female guests &#8216;the exact blue shade of a Tiffany box&#8217;. A member of the hotel staff says: &#8216;We thought this might remind their wealthy husbands of where to shop fr their jewellery&#8217;.&#8221; <\/span> This has the ring of untruth to me, and should perhaps be reported to Snopes, But it&#8217;s funny.<\/li>\n<li>A man named Michael Hampson has written an excellent short book on how the Church of England is fucked. I was asked to blurb it, which is unusual. I did so happily. The thing that really struck me was that it was written in English: the clear and unforced language of a skilled and intelligent person trying to communicate. This may not seem remarkable. But it makes you realise what a very high priority is placed in most language about the Church, on <em>not<\/em> saying anything about some pretty obvious and important things. It&#8217;s called <em>Last Rites,<\/em> due out in October from Granta.<\/li>\n<li>Fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2006\/04\/memories_of_execution.php\">comment thread<\/a> on <em>Pharyngula<\/em> about the best ways to kill small animals in laboratories.<\/li>\n<li>If ever there is a <em>Campaign for Real Patriarchy,<\/em> it has a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,1756268,00.html\">president for life,<\/a> though he will have to receive the other officers in jail. This story reads like something out of <span class=\"caps\">PZ&#8217;<\/span>s book of horrors: <span class=\"sane\">The defendant pleaded guilty to nine of the charges under a plea bargain. His lawyer, Harold Seet, told the Guardian that his client acted as he did &#8220;because he was troubled by financial matters and his daughters&#8217; interest in the opposite sex&#8221;. Mr Seet added: &#8220;He said he would prefer to do the act with his daughters so they would not do it with any third parties.&#8221; <\/span><\/li>\n<li>I have double booked myself and must pay a full single air far from Munich to London if I want to attend the Darwinian Religion conference on Friday next week. I blame the software. It&#8217;s the first bad thing that Ecco has done to me in ages &#8212; it won&#8217;t show multi-day appointments in a list view, so I could see, when I checked,  that I had no meetings that do; I couldn&#8217;t see that I was not having these appointments in Germany.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man whose idea of fun is picking through slug shit to find what they&#8217;ve been eating. With his son. The Peter McKay column in the Mail claims &#8212; I can&#8217;t find this anywhere online &#8212; that the in-house beauticians &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=45\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=45\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}