{"id":2540,"date":"2011-06-17T08:57:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:35:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:35:02","slug":"bloomslinky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2540","title":{"rendered":"Bloomslinky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some stately, plump links for you.<\/p>\n<p>Science laffs: another of that research genre &#8220;analyse something fictional, pretending it is real&#8221; uses Asterix and head injuries. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/healthnews\/8578767\/Asterix-comics-study-research-sets-a-troubling-precedent.html\">The Daily Telegraph doesn&#8217;t get the joke<\/a>. (It&#8217;d be funnier if this didn&#8217;t demonstrate how entrenched is the discourse that says scientists are clueless, disconnected from reality, and Spending Our Taxes. )<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dearphotograph.com\/\">Dear Photograph<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_18896_10-mind-blowing-easter-eggs-hidden-in-famous-albums.html\">10 mind-blowing Easter Eggs hidden in albums<\/a> So much here I&#8217;d never heard of, including a secret track on the Public Enemy album I bought in 1994. Hah.<\/p>\n<p>The amazing Colleen Coover does a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=2125\">unlicensed Lois\/Lana\/Superman strip<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newswatch.nationalgeographic.com\/2011\/06\/15\/shark-pictures-super-predators\/\">Sharks leaping out of the water<\/a>. Finally time for that Michael Bay remake of Jaws.<\/p>\n<p>New strip by Toby Morris about <a href=\"http:\/\/xtotl.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/92-great-gran.html\">his great gran in Napier<\/a>. Lovely stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2011\/jun\/12\/google-personalisation-internet-data-filtering\">Google is trapping you in a bubble<\/a>. (via Alastair G, who just welcomed babby #2 into the world, congrats dude)<\/p>\n<p>No Star Wars this week, so here&#8217;s some Indiana Jones: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerousminds.net\/comments\/tom_selleck_screen_test_for_raiders_of_the_lost_ark\/\">Tom Selleck &#038; Sean Young&#8217;s screen test<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2011\/06\/12\/video-the-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-remake-in-full\/\">complete backyard shot-for-shot remake by those kids in the 80s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via John Fouhy &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2011\/06\/08\/all-roads-lead-to-philosophy-on-wikipedia\/\">does every link pathway on Wikipedia ultimately lead to Philosophy<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Interesting piece by Polly Toynbee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/may\/31\/chav-vile-word-fractured-britain\">on the word &#8220;chav&#8221; and how it perpetuates social division in the UK<\/a>. Worth pointing out that &#8220;chav&#8221;, like the Scottish neds, aren&#8217;t just a mass of young people in general, but a distinct set with clearly marked clothing and behavioural choices, in the same way that goths are. So I don&#8217;t know if I buy the whole of this argument &#8211; but I&#8217;m certainly sympathetic to it.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic covers how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2011\/06\/settlers-of-catan-how-a-german-board-game-went-mainstream\/239919\/\">Settlers of Catan is becoming a mainstream boardgame<\/a>. (There&#8217;s a rebuttal article linked at the bottom that is just silly.)<\/p>\n<p>My friend Craig&#8217;s team&#8217;s entry from the Edinburgh 48 hr film comp (winner of best mockumentary I believe)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q0PEk0wERFQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And this year&#8217;s Jenni&#8217;s Angels entry into the NZ 48:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0S3hU5DVPHM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchfilm.com\/news\/2011\/06\/sean-bean-stabbed-in-bar-fight-orders-another-drink.php\">it turns out Sean Bean really could get shot by all those orc arrows<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some stately, plump links for you. Science laffs: another of that research genre &#8220;analyse something fictional, pretending it is real&#8221; uses Asterix and head injuries. The Daily Telegraph doesn&#8217;t get the joke. (It&#8217;d be funnier if this didn&#8217;t demonstrate how entrenched is the discourse that says scientists are clueless, disconnected from reality, and Spending Our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bloomslinky<\/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":[22],"class_list":["post-2540","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-EY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","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=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2713,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}