{"id":2957,"date":"2012-04-13T00:11:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T12:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2013-04-25T15:51:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T03:51:52","slug":"breakers-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2957","title":{"rendered":"Breakers Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched the NZ Breakers basketball team win a thriller in game one of a 3-game final series. I get so invested in these big games! Sigh. Deep breaths.<\/p>\n<p>Ian McEwan on the time his son had to write a book report on one of his novels (via d3vo)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/imcKzalce7w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Also from d3vo, one for film design &#038; sci-fi people: spaceships that became other spaceships. <a href=http:\/\/www.gavinrothery.com\/my-blog\/2011\/9\/23\/spaceships-that-became-other-spaceships-1-the-millennium-fal.html>one<\/a>, <a href=http:\/\/www.gavinrothery.com\/my-blog\/2011\/9\/27\/spaceships-that-became-other-spaceships-2-the-colonial-viper.html>two<\/a>, <a href=http:\/\/www.gavinrothery.com\/my-blog\/2011\/10\/5\/spaceships-that-were-almost-other-spaceships-3-the-eagle-tra.html>three<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/airplane-lavatory-self-portraits-in-the-flemish-style\/>Self-portraits in airplane lavatories, wearing classic Flemish style<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via Naomi, an excellent reaction to a friend coming out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyplace.com\/15065\/guy-comes-out-of-closet-on-facebook-to-friends-entirely-too-geeky-to-care\">act shocked by his website coding choices<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve linked this before, but it&#8217;s been redesigned. Or this is a different site doing the same thing, better. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodtimeline.org\/fooddecades.html\">The Food Timeline<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerousminds.net\/comments\/away_from_it_all_little_know_monty_python_travelogue_19792\">Dangerous Minds has turned up a true Monty Python rarity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hitchcock&#8217;s Rear Window &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/37120554\">amazing video assembles all the different elements of the scene to construct the whole view<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vikingsofbjornstad.com\/VikingMovies.htm\">Viking Movies, evaluated by viking history enthusiasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might have seen that Daily Mail column by Samantha Brick that was about how tough it is being beautiful because all the other women hate you? The Guardian&#8217;s Hadley Freeman has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/apr\/04\/samantha-brick-thrown-to-wolves\">a refreshing take on that whole thing<\/a>. (I really like Hadley Freeman, whose column got me reading the fashion section of the Grauniad first each Saturday. I was completely thrown when they introduced photo bylines, and I discovered she was a she. I had just figured she was a guy who really understood women&#8217;s clothing&#8230; Sherlock Holmes I ain&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n<p>Via Mike Upton: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=137Ei0C3Vdg\">Existential Crisis and Dragons<\/a>. (I have actually played games not too dissimilar to this.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pentametron.com\/\">The Pentametron constructs verse from tweets that happen to be in iambic pentameter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone&#8217;s Matt Taibbi writes an eye-opening, rage-inducing explanation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314?\">what Bank of America did and what &#8220;too big to fail&#8221; actually means<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/03\/20\/top_ten_lessons_of_the_iraq_war\">Top 10 lessons of the Iraq war.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vulture had a series of face-offs to determine the greatest TV show in the last 25 years. Here&#8217;s part one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2012\/03\/greatest-tv-drama-of-the-past-25-years-round-one-my-so-called-life.html\">The Wire vs. My So-Called Life<\/a>. No prizes for guessing the ultimate winner, but there are some surprises along the way I think.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibelieveinadv.com\/2012\/03\/lego-southpark-ninja-turtles-ernie-and-bert-donald-duck-lucky-luke-and-the-daltons-asterix-and-obelix-the-smurfs-the-simpsons\/\">fantastic Lego ad<\/a> has been all over social media, with the attribution stripped off.<\/p>\n<p>The hallowed DavidR found a <a href=\"http:\/\/btothef.tumblr.com\/tagged\/bttf\/chrono\">detailed read-through and description of the Back to the Future novelization<\/a>. It is&#8230; just click through and see, actually.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, the launch issue of &#8220;Conservative Teen&#8221; magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/rosiegray\/what-happened-to-conservative-teen-magazine\">which shut down its site and disappeared after being mocked a whole lot<\/a>, can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/86938117\/Conservative-Teen-Magazine\">still be found and enjoyed<\/a> by those who really want to combine their teenage thrills with their conservative political spills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched the NZ Breakers basketball team win a thriller in game one of a 3-game final series. I get so invested in these big games! Sigh. Deep breaths. Ian McEwan on the time his son had to write a book report on one of his novels (via d3vo) Also from d3vo, one for film &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2957\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breakers 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-2957","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-LH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957","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=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5820,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions\/5820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}