{"id":2508,"date":"2011-05-06T08:32:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:35:05","slug":"yes-even-thor-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2508","title":{"rendered":"Yes Even Thor Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey 15-year-old self in 1991! It&#8217;s 2011 calling. Guess what! They made a movie out of <em>Thor<\/em>! THOR! With the big dots on his chest and the big red cape and the hammer! Yes, I know, it sounds ridiculous, but it&#8217;s true. No-one here saw that one coming either! And here&#8217;s the kicker: the director is Kenneth Branagh! I KNOW! No, I&#8217;m not kidding around! Truly. Yeah, you see, all those genre things that mainstream media despises? Turns out they win. <em>Doctor Who<\/em> is back and is incredibly popular. The <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> gets made into films, too, and you&#8217;ll never believe who &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; what&#8217;s that? <em>Star Wars<\/em>? Um&#8230; we don&#8217;t talk about <em>Star Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>From the Alligator, a recap of the last five years of Spider-Man comics continuity in the form of a <a href=\"http:\/\/ninjaink.deviantart.com\/art\/Peter-and-Uncle-Ben-181148160\">Calvin &#038; Hobbes strip<\/a>. (Oh, comics, keep on being you!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerousminds.net\/comments\/amateur_interactive_image_night_sky\/\">Amazing image of the night sky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fantastic post at Kiwipolitico about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwipolitico.com\/2011\/05\/violating-ourselves\/\">the Treaty of Waitangi and its relevance to contemporary NZ<\/a>. Highly recommended to Kiwi readers, overseas folk might find it a bit impenetrable!<\/p>\n<p>Understanding cities &#8211; did Jane Jacobs have it wrong? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/blogs\/view\/The-Triumph-of-the-City.html\">These books say she did.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/224154.php\">Gender bias in children&#8217;s books<\/a> (via Emma B)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedroidyourelookingfor.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/27\/the-six-stages-of-movie-geek-evolution\/\">The six stages of movie geek evolution<\/a> &#8211; via Andrew (Bartok)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=soil-depletion-and-nutrition-loss\">Have fruit and veg become less nutritious?<\/a> (Scientific American) &#8211; via John Fouhy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/ashleybaccam\/abridged-harry-potter-in-comic-form\">Harry Potter novels retold as one-page comic strips<\/a> (see also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/movies\/harry_potter\/index.html?story=\/mwt\/feature\/2011\/04\/19\/extreme_world_of_quidditch_harry_potter_fans_collide\">Salon coverage of real-life Quidditch<\/a>, which bemuses me because Quidditch is a terriblly designed sport. Isn&#8217;t it?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_19172_8-creepy-video-game-urban-legends-that-happen-to-be-true.html\">8 creepy video game urban legends that turn out to be true <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldsbiggestpacman.com\/\">World&#8217;s biggest Pac-Man<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazing beatbox vid:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g0_2vmkTmf0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My age-match Nathan Rabin from the AV Club describes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/1994,54854\/\">&#8217;94 in music, his favourite music year<\/a>. Some overlap with my own preferences may be assumed.<\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/ridiculouspicturesofcelinedion.tumblr.com\/\">Ridiculous pictures of Celine Dion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey 15-year-old self in 1991! It&#8217;s 2011 calling. Guess what! They made a movie out of Thor! THOR! With the big dots on his chest and the big red cape and the hammer! Yes, I know, it sounds ridiculous, but it&#8217;s true. No-one here saw that one coming either! And here&#8217;s the kicker: the director &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes Even Thor 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_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-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-linky","tag-fridaylinky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-Es","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","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=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}