{"id":3055,"date":"2012-07-13T12:39:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T00:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:46","slug":"jet-jaguar-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3055","title":{"rendered":"Jet Jaguar Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will probably be a short one, on account of not being able to write any of this Thurs evening because I was out at the release party for Jet Jaguar&#8217;s fourth album, &#8220;Four&#8221;. I&#8217;m listening to it now and it delivers good stuff. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonwrestler.com\/discography\/jet-jaguar-four\">Check it out for yourself.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The TomKat Split! is actually some trashy magazine gossip in which I&#8217;m interested. Scientology is fascinating as well as troubling, and the way the church controls its media exposure and information flow is something to behold. The Independent has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/scientologys-summer-of-hell-7901943.html\">a nice short article<\/a> on how this and a bunch of other events mean scientology is gonna be talked about a lot in the coming months&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A discussion on NZRaG about NZ-made boardgames led to the discovery of this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/25166\/political-football\">Political Football, the family boardgame of the Springbok Tour<\/a>! Blimey. Kiwis will instantly get how odd this is; foreigners will have to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1981_South_Africa_rugby_union_tour_of_New_Zealand\">struggle through wikipedia<\/a> because I can&#8217;t craft a short description that really conveys how big a deal it was here. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a video for all the single ladies of Wellington (also applies even more so in Dunedin):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QrFqD9cs0O8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n(via Amanda Reilly)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/picking-on-the-job-creators\/\">Big business as job creators: a short demolition<\/a>. (Via Allen Varney.)<\/p>\n<p>The awesome Gem Wilder writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrsblacksmith.com\/2012\/07\/10\/gem-wilders-tips-for-turning-negative-poverty-into-positive-poverty\/\">how to be poor &#038; happy<\/a>. (Also recommended: Gem&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gemwilder.blogspot.co.nz\/\">Wilder Woman<\/a> blog, where cool linky are shared, awesome women are celebrated, and semi-embarrassing childhood crush objects are reconsidered.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behance.net\/gallery\/Classic-Movies-in-Miniature-Style\/4455311\">Classic movies as Persian miniatures<\/a> (obligatory linky Star Wars content included within)<\/p>\n<p>The LIBOR scandal is slowly, slowly gaining news traction outside the UK. <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/hang_the_bankers_info_graphic_clearly_explains_the_libor_conspiracy\">Here&#8217;s a great infographic explaining what the hell it&#8217;s all about<\/a>. Time and again I am astonished that the fate and wellbeing of the global economy is, in so many ways, dependent on what is basically an honour system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitaltimes.co.nz\/The-Jitterati-gist\">Fascinating &#038; surprisingly frank interview with cartoonist Grant Buist<\/a> on the 10th anniversary of his comic strip of Wellington, Jitterati.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s been sharing this, check it out if you haven&#8217;t seen it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/books\/weird\/index.shtml\">the weird book room at Abe Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 90s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/patton-oswalts-magical-black-man,82224\/\">comedian Patton Oswalt had his very own magical black man experience<\/a> (Wiki&#8217;s got <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magical_Negro\">a nice article about the magical negro trope<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>When that Gotye song comes on in the car you need to turn it off fast<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NY4xE9rAY8k?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nits from new zealand i think<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/what-if.xkcd.com\/1\/\">xkcd answers some what if questions.<\/a> magical.<\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/quick-fixes\/why-saved-by-bell-all-dream-conspiracy-theory\/\">why &#8220;Saved By The Bell&#8221; was all a dream by a character on another TV show<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will probably be a short one, on account of not being able to write any of this Thurs evening because I was out at the release party for Jet Jaguar&#8217;s fourth album, &#8220;Four&#8221;. I&#8217;m listening to it now and it delivers good stuff. Check it out for yourself. The TomKat Split! is actually some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jet Jaguar 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-3055","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-Nh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","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=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5798,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}