{"id":844,"date":"2008-03-04T08:11:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2008-03-04T08:11:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T15:11:20","slug":"linkishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Linkishness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conditionalaxe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Conditional Axe<\/a> &#8220;celebrates&#8221; Gambit Week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, there&#8217;s a truism that gets bandied around about no character being a bad character, but for all of that talk, I still look at Gambit and scratch my head.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Us too, Jeff.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I have mixed feelings about the new geek blog on the block, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.io9.com\" target=\"_blank\">io9<\/a>, but I do genuinely appreciate their coverage of ALL corners of sci-fi, especially artwork and literary stuff (even though my own &#8220;history&#8221; with literary sci-fi is shamefully inadequate). Here&#8217;s their latest <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/363315\/an-mp3-star-from-mars-vs-giant-aliens-from-europa-in-john-varleys-cool-new-novel\" target=\"_blank\">book review<\/a>, of John Varley&#8217;s latest novel, Rolling Thunder. Sounds like a fun read. More of this and fewer random lists, please!<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/pwbeat.publishersweekly.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/saul-bass-vs-star-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Beat<\/a>, an absolutely genius bit of nonsense:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z25t-PQDn5A&#038;rel=1&#038;border=0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z25t-PQDn5A&#038;rel=1&#038;border=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\"width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff over at Conditional Axe &#8220;celebrates&#8221; Gambit Week: Now, there&#8217;s a truism that gets bandied around about no character being a bad character, but for all of that talk, I still look at Gambit and scratch my head. Us too, Jeff. ** I have mixed feelings about the new geek blog on the block, io9, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}