{"id":55820,"date":"2013-07-09T09:43:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=55820"},"modified":"2019-01-06T13:53:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T18:53:03","slug":"giant-mr-darcy-terrorizes-london-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/giant-mr-darcy-terrorizes-london-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Mr. Darcy Terrorizes London, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A twelve-foot fiberglass Mr. Darcy is currently standing in the middle of Hyde Park\u2019s Serpentine Lake, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/entertainment\/2013\/07\/giant-statue-wet-colin-firth-obviously-kind-creepy\/66918\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and is terrifying<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-23160583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analytics tool<\/a> claims it can detect sarcasm in online comments. But the best part: \u201cIts clients include the Home Office, EU Commission and Dubai Courts.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The artist formerly known as \u201cthe\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/7\/5\/4495178\/paul-mathis-the-symbol-th-android-keyboard-range\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is now represented<\/a> by the symbol \u040b.<\/li>\n<li>Book titles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pleated-jeans.com\/2013\/07\/01\/book-titles-with-one-letter-missing-20-pics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">missing<\/a> one (key) letter.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/post\/54913584040\/lovely-scientific-rendition-of-twinkle-twinkle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A scientifically accurate<\/a> \u201cTwinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.\u201d Sample lyric: \u201cThirty-two light years in the sky \/ Ten parsecs which is really high.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A twelve-foot fiberglass Mr. Darcy is currently standing in the middle of Hyde Park\u2019s Serpentine Lake, and is terrifying. A new analytics tool claims it can detect sarcasm in online comments. But the best part: \u201cIts clients include the Home Office, EU Commission and Dubai Courts.\u201d The artist formerly known as \u201cthe\u201d is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[11347,300,11346,10595,5425,7355,11348,10148],"class_list":["post-55820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-analytics","tag-jane-austen","tag-mr-darcy","tag-nerds","tag-pride-and-prejudice","tag-science","tag-the","tag-titles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Giant Mr. Darcy Terrorizes London, and Other News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Giant Mr. Darcy, sarcasm detector, a scientifically accurate \u201cTwinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,\u201d and more book news for July 9, 2013.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/giant-mr-darcy-terrorizes-london-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Giant Mr. Darcy Terrorizes London, and Other News by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"July 9, 2013 \u2013 &nbsp; A twelve-foot fiberglass Mr. Darcy is currently standing in the middle of Hyde Park\u2019s Serpentine Lake, and is terrifying. 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