{"id":288,"date":"2005-06-19T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Miscellany\/vegout.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"vegout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2005\/06\/19\/vegout\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephenson on Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Stephenson, author of the excellent <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553380958\/jclarkorg-20\/ref=nosim\">Snow Crash<\/a><\/cite> and the unbelievably good <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060512806\/jclarkorg-20\/ref=nosim\">Cryptonomicon<\/a><\/cite>, has written an op-ed piece for the New York Times about Star Wars, entitled <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/17\/opinion\/17stephenson.html?ei=5090&amp;en=a693ccc4ec008424&amp;ex=1276660800&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">Turn on, Tune in, Veg Out<\/a><\/cite> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/binarybonsai.com\/k2\/\">Bianary Bonsai<\/a>).  It&#8217;s an excellent read- both for what it says about the movies, and for what it says about our culture.  Highly recommended.  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Stephenson, if you&#8217;ve never read his essay, <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spack.org\/wiki\/InTheBeginningWasTheCommandLine\">In the Beginning was the Command Line<\/a><\/cite>, I also recommend it.  The link points to a full-text online version.  It&#8217;s a bit dated now (BeOS is dead, and OS X has changed the Mac landscape in many ways), but still an excellent read.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the final volume of Stephenson&#8217;s Baroque Cycle, <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060750863\/jclarkorg-20\/ref=nosim\">System of the World<\/a><\/cite>, will finally be in trade paperback this September.  This means I&#8217;ll be starting the series this summer.  Looking forward to it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Stephenson, author of the excellent Snow Crash and the unbelievably good Cryptonomicon, has written an op-ed piece for the New York Times about Star Wars, entitled Turn on, Tune in, Veg Out (via Bianary Bonsai). It&#8217;s an excellent read- both for what it says about the movies, and for what it says about our [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}