{"id":1107,"date":"2009-07-17T08:59:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T08:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:12:38","slug":"to-come-to-the-aid-of-the-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"To Come To The Aid Of The Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"

My grandfather Percy loved his typewriters, and went through a large number of them over the years. When he first typed “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party” I had no idea what it meant but didn’t ask. What kind of party would need help, small me wondered. Was pass-the-parcel going wrong? Pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey spinning wildly out of control?
\n(Internet, he say: it comes from a very early typing demonstration.<\/a>)
\nShoggoths: what we know from fiction.<\/a>
\nReal-life shoggoth in the arctic<\/a>.
\nReal-life shoggoth in the sewers.<\/a>
\nClassic romance comics reveal all the reasons why chicks cry<\/a>. Related: 1963 Aussie govt paper on why women shouldn’t be trade commissioners<\/a>.
\n101 Muppets of Sesame Street<\/a> – mouseover for first appearance details.
\nA Michael Jackson response that won’t make you feel dirty inside<\/a>. Also: Sadhbh gets shirty with the MJ hypocrites<\/a>.
\nPBS interview with health insurance insider about their panic over Michael Moore’s “Sicko”<\/a>. Incredible account of how PR is done by big interests, how politicians get pulled onside, how a campaign strategy is run, etc. Includes links to actual internal documents that present their response strategy in powerpoint slides.
\nIn honour of Flight of the Conchords getting some emmy noms<\/a>, here’s an a capella take on “Friends”.
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\nCaptain Kirk follows Wesley Crusher<\/a>. Something about this makes me very happy and I don’t give the slightest hoot about Trek.
\nIndex of Alan Moore stuff that is free online<\/a>.
\nAnd finally… a five-minute video of video game history with Super Mario leghumping! And WTF! W! T! F! For five minutes!<\/a> And this was meant to be the beginning of a srs doco!
\nAnd finally finally… play Helen off, keyboard cat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My grandfather Percy loved his typewriters, and went through a large number of them over the years. When he first typed “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party” I had no idea what it meant but didn’t ask. What kind of party would need help, small … Continue reading To Come To The Aid Of The Linky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-linky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-hR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}