{"id":1153,"date":"2003-10-24T15:17:23","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T20:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/10\/24\/1153\/"},"modified":"2003-10-24T15:17:23","modified_gmt":"2003-10-24T20:17:23","slug":"1153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/10\/24\/1153\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funny thing is that <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0234215\/\">The Matrix Reloaded<\/a> was <i>not<\/i> called Matrix<sup>2<\/sup>, because that would actually make sense&#8211;matrix multiplication is a perfectly normal algebraic operation.  Yet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0103644\/\">Alien&#179;<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000005OMV\/qid%3D1067025959\/sr%3D11-1\/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1\/102-8370985-6887328\">Hackers&#178;<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000K2AT\/qid%3D1067025991\/sr%3D11-1\/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1\/102-8370985-6887328\">and &#179;!<\/a>) quasi-soundtracks <i>were<\/i> exponentially notified, which makes no sense at all!<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m grouching, I&#8217;m fine with IMDB, but I really need to find a better book \/ music linkdump than Amazon.  I have nothing against them personally, I&#8217;d just like having a database that&#8217;s less explicitly commercial, and I&#8217;d like to avoid contributing to Google&#8217;s shopping bias.  I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/\">the Library of Congress<\/a>, but they&#8217;re really useless in terms of context.  Anybody else have a better idea?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and yeah, I own Hackers&#178;.  I&#8217;m weak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funny thing is that The Matrix Reloaded was not called Matrix2, because that would actually make sense&#8211;matrix multiplication is a perfectly normal algebraic operation. Yet Alien&#179; and the Hackers&#178; (and &#179;!) quasi-soundtracks were exponentially notified, which makes no sense at all! While I&#8217;m grouching, I&#8217;m fine with IMDB, but I really need to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hackers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}