{"id":731,"date":"2012-05-26T14:12:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T20:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2014-04-24T05:38:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T11:38:54","slug":"suddenly-some-links-drifted-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/26\/suddenly-some-links-drifted-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly Some Links Drifted By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the links I&#8217;ve made note of during the weeks this blog has lain fallow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;d love to read a collected edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/comicalites.revues.org\/918\">this comic strip<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Mahendra Singh has written <a href=\"http:\/\/justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.ca\/search\/label\/Moebius\">a series of blog posts analyzing the brilliance of Moebius&#8217;s inking<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sam Henderson details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/anatomy-of-a-gag\/\">the work that goes into one simple gag cartoon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Last month the internet experienced some consternation about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/2012\/05\/07\/120507ta_talk_mcgrath\">a standardized test question involving a pineapple<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/adamcadre.ac\/calendar\/13956.html\">One of the best responses came from Adam Cadre<\/a>, who has worked in the test prep industry; he explains how reading comprehension questions work in theory, what they <em>really<\/em> measure, and why maybe the pineapple question isn&#8217;t all that bad.<\/li>\n<li>In the middle of an article on &#8220;unteachable&#8221; college students <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/education-oronte-churm\/are-students-really-unteachable\">a professor shares part of the FAQ-style course policies he gives his freshman composition classes<\/a>, beginning with &#8220;Why is the university making me take this course?&#8221; and getting gradually more philosophical.<\/li>\n<li>Joe Queenan reviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/arts\/books\/the-anatomy-of-harpo-marx-by-wayne-koestenbaum\/article2429818\/\">a book that I can&#8217;t believe actually exists in the world<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/11\/internal-time-till-roenneber\/\">A review of a book suggesting the existence of &#8220;social jet lag.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2012\/apr\/02\/myth-of-the-suffering-artist?CMP=twt_fd\">A. L. Kennedy on the perniciousness of the myth of the suffering artist.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the links I&#8217;ve made note of during the weeks this blog has lain fallow: I&#8217;d love to read a collected edition of this comic strip. Mahendra Singh has written a series of blog posts analyzing the brilliance of Moebius&#8217;s inking. Sam Henderson details the work that goes into one simple gag &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/26\/suddenly-some-links-drifted-by\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suddenly Some Links Drifted By<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,3],"tags":[202,198,197],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-comics","tag-art","tag-books","tag-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}