{"id":6424,"date":"2009-02-27T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T22:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2020-02-27T09:14:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T17:14:21","slug":"delicious-february-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/02\/27\/delicious-february-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for February 25th through February 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4371,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.penny-arcade.com\\\/2009\\\/02\\\/27\\\/whedonites-dilemma&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.penny-arcade.com\\\/2009\\\/02\\\/27\\\/whedonites-dilemma&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4372,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/tinyurl.com\\\/trekredcarpet&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/links.promotions.com\\\/links\\\/link.do?pid=4512&amp;lid=20401&amp;ref=UTV%2FYdU809ZtAIDHhS2jHQ%3D%3D&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4373,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2009\\\/SHOWBIZ\\\/Movies\\\/02\\\/26\\\/india.movie.slumdog.children\\\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260307035237\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2009\\\/SHOWBIZ\\\/Movies\\\/02\\\/26\\\/india.movie.slumdog.children\\\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2009\\\/SHOWBIZ\\\/Movies\\\/02\\\/26\\\/india.movie.slumdog.children\\\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:41:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:41:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4374,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pvponline.com\\\/2009\\\/02\\\/25\\\/yoda-is-a-muppet&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4375,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.stuff.co.nz\\\/4858855a11.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.stuff.co.nz\\\/4858855a11.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Sometime between February 25th and February 27th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/2009\/02\/27\/whedonites-dilemma\/\" title=\"The Whedonite's Dilemma\">The Whedonite&#8217;s Dilemma<\/a>: &quot;Dollhouse is not an enjoyable television program. &#8230; Being truly granular about what makes the show an affront would require the use of holographic data storage, but in general terms the show (as delivered) doesn&#39;t work. &#8230; It&#39;s a science fiction retelling of MTV&#39;s The Real World, and it works about as well as you would expect.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/trekredcarpet\" title=\"New Frontiers Sweepstakes\">New Frontiers Sweepstakes<\/a>: Win a trip to the Red Carpet premiere of the new Star Trek film, or a trip on the &quot;Vomit Comit&quot; Zero-G space plane. Disclaimer: using this link to enter also helps my chances of winning. ;) Be a buddy, help me out, and maybe you&#39;ll win instead!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/02\/26\/india.movie.slumdog.children\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\" title=\"Young 'Slumdog' Stars Back in Mumbai Slums\">Young &#8216;Slumdog&#8217; Stars Back in Mumbai Slums<\/a>: &quot;On Sunday night, Azharuddin Ismail and Rubina Ali were in Hollywood, California, getting celebrity treatment as eight Oscars were awarded to the movie they starred in, &#39;Slumdog Millionaire.&#39; &para; Thursday night, the two children were sleeping at home in Mumbai, India. Azharuddin sleeps under a plastic sheet in a shantytown beside a railway track, where the smell of urine and cow dung lingers in the air. Rubina sleeps with her parents and siblings in a tiny shack beside an open drain.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pvponline.com\/2009\/02\/25\/yoda-is-a-muppet\/\" title=\"Yoda Is a Muppet\">Yoda Is a Muppet<\/a>: &quot;Not until Yoda dies do things go right for the rebellion against the Empire. Yoda&#39;s rise is the rise of the Empire. Dude is a muppet through and through.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/4858855a11.html\" title=\"Mermaid Dream Comes True Thanks to Weta\">Mermaid Dream Comes True Thanks to Weta<\/a>: &quot;Nadya Vessey lost her legs as a child but now she swims like a mermaid. Ms Vessey&#39;s mermaid tail was created by Wellington-based film industry wizards Weta Workshop after the Auckland woman wrote to them two years ago asking if they could make her a prosthetic tail. She was astounded when they agreed.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between February 25th and February 27th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0The Whedonite&#8217;s Dilemma \u2022\u00a0New Frontiers Sweepstakes \u2022\u00a0Young &#8216;Slumdog&#8217; Stars Back in Mumbai Slums \u2022\u00a0Yoda Is a Muppet \u2022\u00a0Mermaid Dream Comes True Thanks to Weta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}