{"id":1760,"date":"2010-09-24T08:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:37:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:37:46","slug":"flirty-linking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"Flirty Linking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seen this in a couple spots, I think Karen Healey was first to give it linky: perfume that makes you smell like a library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via Nonwrestler: the Art of Penguin Science Fiction<\/a>. Very nice. Love those late-60s Alan Aldridge covers.<\/p>\n

via the Other Mr Ritchie, the one who didn’t just become a Dad, some incredible photos of atomic blasts in action<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A gay 15-year-old chose suicide to escape bullying recently, and Dan Savage of the Savage Love column\/podcast responded<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why are we waiting for permission to talk to these kids? We have the ability to talk directly to them right now. We don\u2019t have to wait for permission to let them know that it gets better<\/em>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So they’ve started a YouTube channel<\/a> to deliver this message to LGBT teens who need to hear it. Spread the word.<\/p>\n

This week’s Star Wars: the secret origin of Chewbacca. Which is to say, pretty conclusive proof that the Chewie design was swiped<\/a>. Really about the messiness of the creative process, and a good read.<\/p>\n

I dunno if permissions will let people see these, but it’s facebook so presumably they will (ba-DUM-dum). It’s Dermot’s take on Star Wars In Cork<\/a> (that’s the place in Ireland, not the thing that goes in bottlenecks)<\/p>\n

via Hroethgar, tilt-shift techniques applied to Van Gogh paintings<\/a>. Looks awful on some, but breathtaking on others.<\/p>\n

Further sign of mainstreaming of geek concerns: geek fashionista collection<\/a> based around sci-fi imagery. TARDIS dress anyone? (Back when I was a lad, this sort of thing could only exist in a MAD magazine parody. Now it seems odd that it hasn’t happened before. Which brings me to…)<\/p>\n

“Team Unicorn”, a quartet of lady gamer geeks, produced this parody of the most-parodied-song-ever California Gurls. Its a “we are geek girls hear me roar” song. It has Seth Green rapping.
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Geek and Gamer Girls Song<\/a> – Watch more Funny Videos<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

In its wake this vid produced a small flurry of discussion. Anarchangel smartly discusses<\/a> some of this reaction in terms of contested subcultural boundaries, and gives some awesome linky. Alternative\/geek royalty Theremina expressed unease about the vid on Twitter, and was appreciative when someone pointed out this vid along similar lines:
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\nThere’s potential for a lengthy post on this and related issues. Anyone have time to write it?<\/p>\n

Wil Wheaton considers the hairdo<\/a> of the character he played on Star Trek, Wesley Crusher, in the face of an enthusiastically bad-language using celebration of same.<\/p>\n

Tube map of modern science<\/a>. Smart.<\/p>\n

And finally, Wikipedia’s introduction to the world of Flirty Fishing<\/a> – 70s-era evangelism-by-prostitution. Times have changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seen this in a couple spots, I think Karen Healey was first to give it linky: perfume that makes you smell like a library. via Nonwrestler: the Art of Penguin Science Fiction. Very nice. Love those late-60s Alan Aldridge covers. via the Other Mr Ritchie, the one who didn’t just become a Dad, some incredible … Continue reading Flirty Linking<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[22],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-linky","tag-fridaylinky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-so","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","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=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}