{"id":1240,"date":"2010-02-26T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T08:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:10:41","slug":"linky-for-the-housetrained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"Linky for the Housetrained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Friday Linky for you:<br \/>\nIndulge your vertigo: <a href=http:\/\/www.oobject.com\/category\/12-dramatic-views-looking-down\/>12 dramatic views looking down<\/a>.<br \/>\nA surviving audio-free clip from Dead Bart &#8211; the infamous lost episode of The Simpsons with a &#8220;hyperrealistic&#8221; section:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Gy-4wUhIocA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n(Dead Bart of course doesn&#8217;t exist; it seems like it was a myth made up whole-cloth in the dark depths of the internets, i.e. 4chan. Google it and see if you can find anything. Don&#8217;t know where this clip comes from really, a Spanish show maybe?)<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/ohhaveyouseenthis.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/dogs-law-and-order.html>Dogs love to sing the Law and Order theme.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2010\/01\/31\/easy__true\/?page=full>Cognitive Fluency<\/a>, i.e. our tendency to assume that easy = true. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/bkdrinkwater.blogspot.com\/\">Blaise<\/a> some time ago.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.viceland.com\/int\/v16n12\/htdocs\/steve-jackson-ian-livingstone-283.php?page=1\">Vice mag interviews the guys behind the Fighting Fantasy books<\/a>. Awesome, and I love the photo.<br \/>\nVideo of a wild 20-minute presentation at DICE <a href=http:\/\/g4tv.com\/thefeed\/blog\/post\/702668\/Is-Your-Life-Just-One-Big-RPG----Mind-Blowing-Speech-From-DICE-2010.html>that gives a pretty compelling and deeply freaky vision of what is coming &#8211; the integration of video-game logic into all human activity<\/a>. I don&#8217;t buy everything he says, but surely a big chunk of this is inevitable. Earns points for figuring out before Bruce Sterling that <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?tid=10603&#038;ttype=2\">spimes<\/a> are a game platform.<br \/>\nThe &#8216;Gator talks briefly about his trip to NYC <a href=\"http:\/\/wanisan.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/wow.html\">here<\/a>, but the highlight is this wonderful essay about <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/View?id=dc936hcx_2hm247bhd\">one epic dining experience<\/a>. For serious food lovers, and anyone who wants to know how serious food lovers see the world.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m with Matt Colville &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squaremans.com\/?p=118\">why hasn&#8217;t there been a book about Jodorowsky&#8217;s never-completed film adaptation of Dune<\/a>?<br \/>\nAnd speaking of film adaptations of Dune, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerousminds.net\/index.php\/site\/comments\/frank_herbert_david_lynch_discuss_dune\/\">Brian Herbert and David Lynch on video together<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/alia-shawkat,38480\/>AV Club interviews Alia Shawkat from Arrested Development<\/a> which is kinda interesting, but the best bit is the video at the end where Shawkat is in a very home-made video cover of Don&#8217;t Stop Believing with Ellen Page (Juno, Whip It) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Har_Mar_Superstar\">Har Mar Superstar<\/a> of all people. And it&#8217;s terrible of course, but I don&#8217;t care because they made it for Ellen Page&#8217;s mum who was retiring. Totally goofy and kinda charming.<br \/>\nSo apparently <a href=http:\/\/selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com\/>Selleck Waterfall Sandwich<\/a> is now a category of things on the internet now &#8211; Pearce just heads-up&#8217;d me to <a href=http:\/\/beaarthurmountainspizza.tumblr.com\/>Bea Arthur mountains pizza<\/a>.<br \/>\nA poem by Clive James, via Garrison Keillor: <a href=http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/index.php?date=2008\/10\/03>The book of my enemy has been remaindered<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ljEC7HKbP0g&#038;feature=player_embedded>Predator dance troupe<\/a> on the set of Predator 2, guest appearance by Danny Glover. That movie is under-rated, but this would have made it even betterer.<br \/>\nAnd finally&#8230; Russian (?) commercials from the 80s!<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kTpfR_Ec9pA&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Friday Linky for you: Indulge your vertigo: 12 dramatic views looking down. A surviving audio-free clip from Dead Bart &#8211; the infamous lost episode of The Simpsons with a &#8220;hyperrealistic&#8221; section: (Dead Bart of course doesn&#8217;t exist; it seems like it was a myth made up whole-cloth in the dark depths of the internets, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linky for the Housetrained<\/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,"_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-1240","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-k0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","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=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}