{"id":2621,"date":"2011-10-28T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T20:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2012-11-05T14:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:56:34","slug":"big-bad-linky-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2621","title":{"rendered":"Big Bad Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Halloween! Here is the AV Club on one of the most unnerving sequences I’ve ever seen on the big screen, the bit in the car from Scream 2<\/a>. I remember singing the praises of this scene on the way home from the cinema, good to be reminded why I liked it so much!<\/p>\n

And also for Halloween, you could do worse than dip into the deep weirdness of the Slender Man<\/a>…<\/p>\n

And look what horror movies have done to us<\/a><\/p>\n

Great one-star review of Orwell’s 1984 on Amazon<\/a>: “Jackson’s “Thriller”? (the soundtrack of the summer, and the biggest selling album of all-time) – not mentioned; Frankie Goes To Hollywood (their breakthrough year leading to world pop domination) – not a whisper…”<\/p>\n

BBC Domesday project<\/a> – snapshots from all across the UK in 1985, there to explore and compare to a growing number of 2011 updates.<\/p>\n

The Royal Society have opened their archive<\/a>. At the link, BoingBoing points out a few amazing things you can find there. I’m afraid to start looking in case I don’t stop.<\/p>\n

All four Twilight books in one short webcomic<\/a><\/p>\n

At Dangerous Minds, a great writeup of Occupy Wall Street<\/a> from the point of view of a cynical lefty New Yorker. Check this bit:<\/p>\n

My favorite moment\u2014or moments, I should say\u2014of my three visits to Occupy Wall Street was watching the open-air Big Apple double-decker tour buses drive past, full of tourists with their fists in the air! That was an amazing thing to see. Witnessing that sight, repeatedly, I might add, was as sure a confirmation as anyone should require that a little over a month after its improbably beginnings, OWS is becoming a mainstream phenomenon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Judd Apatow, Feminist, says Elle mag<\/a>. An interesting view of the guy behind Bridesmaids & Knocked Up.<\/p>\n

Fierce essay on the anti-Stratfordians<\/a>, who think Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays. Not a takedown exactly – it takes as read that their position is nonsense – but a bracing assault on their way of thinking, drawing explicit comparison to creationists demanding schools “teach the controversy”. All sparked by that new film, of course. <\/p>\n

And then there’s this guy doing Shakespeare in celebrity voices. Some uncommon ones in there along with the classics you all expect.
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