{"id":3061,"date":"2012-07-20T08:46:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:46","slug":"call-me-maybe-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3061","title":{"rendered":"Call Me Maybe Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;d never heard about the &#8220;Call Me Maybe&#8221; meme until it hit <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/07\/10\/cookie-monster-share-it-maybe\/\">Cookie Monster<\/a>. It&#8217;s a charming wee pop song, and the Wee Beastie and I have enjoyed watching various sports teams make goofy videos of themselves lip-syncing the song (many of which can be found at the Cookie Monster link above). But the Jimmy Fallon &#038; the Roots performance with Carly Rae Jepsen herself is the winner:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lEsPhTbJhuo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Except then this happened<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dBM7i84BThE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tannr.com\/herp-derp-youtube-comments\/\">A browser extension that <\/a>herpderpifies YouTube comments. I first heard this through Mike Sands. Glorious.<\/p>\n<p>You probably know already that the Shell &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go&#8221; ad campaign that&#8217;s been hilariously misused by folk is actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/technology\/technology-news\/shell-social-media-oil-spill-a-coordinated-online-assassination-20120719-22bpe.html\">an elaborate disinfo hit by Greenpeace &#038; serial anti-corporate pranksters the Yes Men<\/a>. That link is to the best breakdown I&#8217;ve seen. It really is marvellous in its sophistication, right through to a fake Shell twitter account clumsily ordering people to take down their anti-Shell material under threat of legal action. This is 21st century stuff, right here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jemshed.com\/comic\/sunshine\/\">A delightful two-page comic that is as Wellington as it gets<\/a>. (via Dylan)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boistelconseil.free.fr\/bethleem\/07_origines.htm\">A restored church &#8211; with a Giger alien as a gargoyle representing Leviathan<\/a>. (thanks Jamie N!)<\/p>\n<p>This one is all over the place, for good reason. <a href=http:\/\/blogs.babble.com\/strollerderby\/2012\/07\/12\/judging-a-book-by-its-cover-a-6-year-old-guesses-what-classic-novels-are-all-about\/#to-kill-a-mockingbird>A 6-year-old guesses what classic novels are about from their covers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(This one is also over the place &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/340987215\">a great, hilarious, GIF-heavy review of 50 shades of grey<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/HgZZF\">Best ever graduation gift<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/2012\/05\/boomerang-vocabulary\/\">Boomerang vocabulary<\/a> at the Oxford Dictionary blog (via Ivan T)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/01\/visualizing-english-word-origins\/\">Visualising the origins of English words<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geek &#038; Sundry has their new series up: stories written by kids. Just great, 100% great, and that SQUAT team member is strangely familiar too.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ef2wnLL1s00\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomwebsite.com\/\">A website that takes you to a random website<\/a> (via Amanda H)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/expresident\/the-cutest-things-that-ever-happened\">The 50 cutest things that ever happened<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh and there was also that time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/suggestedbuzzfeedarticles\">Buzzfeed pwned<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/suggested-buzzfeed-articles\">McSweeney&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communities-dominate.blogs.com\/brands\/2012\/07\/the-sun-tzu-of-nokisoftian-microkia-mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-whose-the-baddest-of-them-all-waterloo.html\">Long long essay on Nokia&#8217;s CEO and why he is the worst<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t read all of it. (via Stephen J)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/incisive.nu\/2012\/how-to-kill-a-troll\/\">How to kill a troll<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/44717290\/memento%20mapped%20portrait%20name.jpg\">A visual map of the film Memento<\/a>. Really nicely done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/9-climate-images-i-really-dont-need-to-see-again\">Nine climate change pictures we don&#8217;t need to see again.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2012\/07\/16\/156851175\/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb?sc=tw&#038;cc=share\">That time five guys stood underneath an atomic bomb<\/a>. Robert Krulwich gives film &#038; explanation. Crazy, man.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, via <a href=\"http:\/\/gemwilder.blogspot.co.nz\/2012\/07\/wilder-web_19.html\">this week&#8217;s cool stuff at Wilder Woman<\/a>, a short musical performance. I&#8217;m not sure if this would be better if you knew the original version (like basically every NZer will) or if you don&#8217;t (like everyone else in the world).<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rRPKQ8RnRbg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;d never heard about the &#8220;Call Me Maybe&#8221; meme until it hit Cookie Monster. It&#8217;s a charming wee pop song, and the Wee Beastie and I have enjoyed watching various sports teams make goofy videos of themselves lip-syncing the song (many of which can be found at the Cookie Monster link above). But the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call Me Maybe 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_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-3061","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-Nn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","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=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5796,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/5796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}