{"id":2442,"date":"2011-03-18T09:22:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:35:10","slug":"laptop-back-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2442","title":{"rendered":"Laptop Back Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over a month since it went off to Computer Hospital, my laptop has come home. Yay! No more stealing strong_light&#8217;s computer when she isn&#8217;t looking! So far it seems to be working beautifully, and (touch wood) no bluescreens so far when I try the actions that used to trigger them. (Bluescreens can be software-related &#8211; who knew?)<\/p>\n<p>So, heedless of the world where there are a number of awful, awful situations unfolding, here are some linky.<\/p>\n<p>Via George L &#8211; Mario as indie film! (from SXSW)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4TdczoetXk4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good companion to the Ferris-Bueller-as-indie-film that&#8217;s been doing the rounds:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MAe5P_xYoKg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Timely: <a href=\"http:\/\/72hours.org\/index.html\">are you prepared?<\/a> (via Seth Green, funnily enough)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-12703674\">30th anniversary of the ZX81<\/a>! I remember downhill ski racing on my grandfather&#8217;s ZX81 way back then.<\/p>\n<p>I twittered about this a few weeks back &#8211; the US military publicly advertised for a company to arrange fake online identities they could use. They&#8217;ve chosen a contractor now, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2011\/mar\/17\/us-spy-operation-social-networks\">the Guardian has the details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen that clip of the UCLA undergrad sounding off about the offensive Asians in the library who don&#8217;t understand American manners? Even if you haven&#8217;t, you want to see this <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailywhat.tumblr.com\/post\/3884864490\/boom-roasted-of-the-day-jimmy-wong-offers-the\">wonderful, wonderful response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Borders-Books\/Why-is-Barnes-and-Noble-performing-well-as-a-business-while-Borders-has-filed-for-bankruptcy\/answer\/Mark-Evans-9\">Why Borders failed and Barnes &#038; Noble didn&#8217;t.<\/a> (NZ buyers for Whitcoulls &#038; Borders here &#8211; take note&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/chrismenning\/what-dr-suess-books-were-really-about\">What Dr Seuss books were really about<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beatonna.livejournal.com\/145965.html\">Kate Beaton comics redialogued by Japanese kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/03\/sperm-whale-names\/\">Sperm whales may have names<\/a> (via Allan Varney)<\/p>\n<p>From Jack &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/plausibledeniability.tumblr.com\/post\/3873678363\/orcas-in-wellington-harbour-picture-by-shannon\">a pic of the orcas in our harbour<\/a>. (Anyone have a link to other good pics?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianlemay.com\/Pages\/madagentsindex.html\">Dude who worked on Inspector Gadget cartoon shares sketches, notes, storyboards, and other details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.periscopedepth.com\/2011\/02\/25\/every-interview-ever\/\">Every job interview ever<\/a>. (This kind of thing is actually what academia&#8217;s discourse analysts do for real.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/BLOGS\/blogs\/browbeat\/archive\/2011\/03\/09\/ward-shelley-s-history-of-science-fiction.aspx\">Visual map of history of science-fiction<\/a> &#8211; a great infographic, and the subject matter is pretty fascinating too<\/p>\n<p>Letters of note has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2011\/03\/best-wishes-my-dear-friend.html\">this gem from Rik Mayall<\/a> (via Paul Stock)<\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230; via Dangerous Minds of course&#8230; the Careless Whisper guy:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GaoLU6zKaws\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a month since it went off to Computer Hospital, my laptop has come home. Yay! No more stealing strong_light&#8217;s computer when she isn&#8217;t looking! So far it seems to be working beautifully, and (touch wood) no bluescreens so far when I try the actions that used to trigger them. (Bluescreens can be software-related &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Laptop Back 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,"_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-2442","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-Do","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","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=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}