{"id":2587,"date":"2011-08-26T09:02:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T21:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2012-11-05T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:56:37","slug":"risky-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"Risky Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday linky time!<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.sierraclub.org\/sierra\/201109\/lastwords.aspx>Tree gives bicycle long slow hug<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Timewaster alert: <a href=http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/jmz7n\/what_is_your_favourite_holy_shit_fact_ill_go_first>Amazing science facts!<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/martin-starr,60893\/\">The AVClub interviews Martin Starr<\/a>, actor best known in this household as Bill Haverchuck on <em>Freaks and Geeks<\/em>. He just comes across as a fascinating guy. I love that he and Eugene Levy are developing projects together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/21\/magazine\/the-dollar-store-economy.html?_r=2\">NYT feature on Dollar Stores<\/a> and the economy that sits behind and around them. Fascinating and worth knowing about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bookviewcafe.com\/2011\/03\/09\/would-you-please-fucking-stop\/\">Ursula K Le Guin writes vividly about the use of curse words in modern fiction.<\/a> Contains bad language, unsurprisingly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mlkshk.com\/p\/69H1\">A fun set of engagement pictures.<\/a> The photographer turns up in the comments to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely short film set in the world of the Portal video games. Well worth watching even if you, like me, know virtually nothing about Portal.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4drucg1A6Xk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fascinating! New version of mass-market war boardgame RISK makes previous games impact on future games &#8211; you add permanent stickers to the board after each play, reflecting what happened. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/thread\/690270\/designer-notes\">The designer chats about the logic behind this &#8211; well worth a read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/sickness_essay\/\">Incredibly rewarding essay by comics journalist Tom Spurgeon<\/a> about facing death, loving comics, working hard, and the shape of life.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Harry Potter film cycle is finished, refresh your minds with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek-art.net\/accio-brain-harry-potter-redesign\/\">these new takes<\/a> on the characters by artist Makani.<\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230; French firemen do it fast<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gl4_6-3T0kI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday linky time! Tree gives bicycle long slow hug Timewaster alert: Amazing science facts! The AVClub interviews Martin Starr, actor best known in this household as Bill Haverchuck on Freaks and Geeks. He just comes across as a fascinating guy. I love that he and Eugene Levy are developing projects together. NYT feature on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2587\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Risky 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,"_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-2587","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-FJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","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=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3957,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/3957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}