markdown fixes, re-categorize

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Abandoned Past
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 :date: 2007-10-14 23:33
 :author: offby1
-:category: Media
+:category: media
 :tags: comics, dystopia, melancholy, science fiction, Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis
 :slug: abandoned-past
 :status: published
@@ -29,31 +29,13 @@ expectation that science will advance enough to heal their ills and
 restore them to life, and it is tragic without pause. I can't convey it
 here, because I'm not Warren Ellis, but in the man's own words:
 
-| > She was revived out of a sense of begrudging duty.
-| > She'd been foisted on a future already busy enough with its own
-  problems by a past that couldn't have cared less.
-| > She could have told the future what it'd been like to meet Che
-  Guevara in that old Cuban schoolhouse.
-| > She could've told them about the last Queen and Albert Einstein and
-  a million other true stories besides.
-| > But the future didn't want to know.
-| > ...
-| > Mary sticks to the alleyways, where the light and noise of the city
-  is screened out a little.
-| > And she talks to anyone who will listen. She tells of how she was
-  Revived: tells it in cold,
-| > terrible detail. She has a photographer's eye. She's made a little
-  documentary of her new
-| > life, up in her chilled head.
-| > And she tells stories of the past. Great rich warm human stories of
-  Stephen Hawking mapping
-| > the universe from a wheelchair, of dancing with children in Zimbabwe
-  dust and walking through
-| > Moscow with Mikhail Gorbachev... John Kennedy playing grabass in the
-  White House. Nelson
-| > Mandela laughing at dirty jokes on a Jo'Burg street, a kid walking
-  in front of a Chinese tank...
-| > The stories that make us great.
-| > Mary will live for maybe another century. But her story's over.
-  Because you wouldn't have it
-| > any other way.
+> She was revived out of a sense of begrudging duty.
+> She'd been foisted on a future already busy enough with its own problems by a past that couldn't have cared less.
+> She could have told the future what it'd been like to meet Che Guevara in that old Cuban schoolhouse.
+> She could've told them about the last Queen and Albert Einstein and a million other true stories besides.
+> But the future didn't want to know.
+> ...
+> Mary sticks to the alleyways, where the light and noise of the city is screened out a little.
+> And she talks to anyone who will listen. She tells of how she was Revived: tells it in cold, terrible detail. She has a photographer's eye. She's made a little documentary of her new
+> life, up in her chilled head. And she tells stories of the past. Great rich warm human stories of Stephen Hawking mapping the universe from a wheelchair, of dancing with children in Zimbabwe dust and walking through Moscow with Mikhail Gorbachev... John Kennedy playing grabass in the White House. Nelson Mandela laughing at dirty jokes on a Jo'Burg street, a kid walking in front of a Chinese tank... The stories that make us great.
+> Mary will live for maybe another century. But her story's over. Because you wouldn't have it any other way.