{"id":3036,"date":"2012-07-06T08:57:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T20:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:46","slug":"higgs-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3036","title":{"rendered":"Higg&#8217;s Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, remember when that guy tried to sabotage the Large Hadron Collider and said he was a time traveller from the future? (<a href=\"http:\/\/crave.cnet.co.uk\/gadgets\/man-arrested-at-large-hadron-collider-claims-hes-from-the-future-49305387\/\">CNet carried the story in, ah, very early April 2010<\/a>) He said: &#8220;The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I&#8217;m here to stop it ever happening.&#8221; Well, a very Higgsy Boson has been found, so bring on the socialist chocolate, I say!<\/p>\n<p>Via d3vo: <a href=\"http:\/\/savethewords.org\/site.swf\">Save the Words<\/a>, a site for anyone who likes words. Seriously dangerous timesink here.<\/p>\n<p>Two English teachers of my acquaintance have written a book intertwining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\/news\/local-papers\/kapiti-observer\/7223496\/Mansfield-zombies-and-werewolves\">Katherine Mansfield with monsters<\/a> (hi guys!)<\/p>\n<p>Dangerous Minds has found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerousminds.net\/comments\/tea_party_conspiracy_what_do_60_bison_karl_marx_and_25_per_gallon_gasoline\">an amazing Tea Party conspiracy theory<\/a>. It has to be seen to be believed. You&#8217;ll never see bison the same way again.<\/p>\n<p>A fun, and growing, collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/youchosewrong.tumblr.com\/\">disastrous endings from choose-your-own-adventure type books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/summeranne\/iconic-images-recreated-with-star-wars-figures\">Iconic images recreated with Star Wars figures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/a-bunch-of-kids-make-aliens-most-famous-scene-real,82028\/\">The chestburster scene from Alien, recreated by kids.<\/a> Um, OK. This is an odd thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>Dora the Explorer, the movie:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collegehumor.com\/e\/6789072\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coilhouse.net\/2012\/07\/a-radical-gabfest-with-authoractivist-laurie-penny\/\">Great, long interview with Laurie Penny (rising progressive journalist) by Coilhouse&#8217;s Meredith Yayanos<\/a>. There is politics and media and gender and a cute pig on some stairs.<\/p>\n<p>James McM, in comments last week, pointed at this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/02\/the-arcades-project-martin-amis-guide-to-classic-video-games.html\">Martin Amis&#8217; mostly-forgotten guide to beating classic arcade games<\/a>. (This looks really, really familiar to me. Did the Hutt Library have a copy, maybe?)<\/p>\n<p>Marvellous musical performance brings to life one of Roger Langridge&#8217;s great comic strips.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YH9w-RAOa8w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfluidity.com\/v2\/3212.html\">Depression (the economic kind) is a choice<\/a>: I know too little of economics to evaluate this, but it includes some pretty powerful thoughts that sound scarily convincing, e.g. &#8220;But the preferences of developed, aging polities \u2014 first Japan, now the United States and Europe \u2014 are obvious to a dispassionate observer. Their overwhelming priority is to protect the purchasing power of incumbent creditors. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s everything. All other considerations are secondary.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flavorwire.com\/303700\/10-fake-books-in-movies-that-we-wish-we-could-read\">10 fake books in movies that we wish we could read<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230; a double helping of Beauty &#038; the Beast. (I went to see this on the big screen when it came out, with my bogan mates. We were a bunch of teenage guys, in a cinema full of tween girls, watching Belle read books and be adorable. And friends? That was a good day.)<\/p>\n<p>So: my gay friends have apparently failed me, because apparently this redub of the opening scene of Disney&#8217;s Beauty &#038; the Beast did the gay social media rounds a while back. And it is awesome:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pcuI6K9daIw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And: as good as that is, this live-action restaging of the same scene &#8211; with a few tiny changes &#8211; is even more awesome:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B0Rau01wbeo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, remember when that guy tried to sabotage the Large Hadron Collider and said he was a time traveller from the future? (CNet carried the story in, ah, very early April 2010) He said: &#8220;The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3036\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Higg&#8217;s 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-3036","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-MY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","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=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5801,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}