{"id":3092,"date":"2012-08-24T00:03:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T12:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:45","slug":"woof-woof-ruff-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3092","title":{"rendered":"Woof Woof Ruff Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dog-shaming.com\/\">Dog Shaming<\/a> is being linkied everywhere but I&#8217;m linking too because it is indeed perfect. Dogs have a broad range of dog-type emotions, but &#8220;shame&#8221; might be the one that is most similar to the human version.<br \/>\nAlso canine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ABRsHt9mVxE\">BARKOUR!<\/a> (via Fraser P)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve linked to The Dark Room before, but here it is again because it&#8217;s been turned into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/shows\/edinburgh_fringe_2012\/j\/20639\/john_robertson%3A_the_dark_room\/review\">an Edinburgh Fringe show<\/a>. Well worth a click around. No, I haven&#8217;t made it out of the Dark Room, not without being beaten to a pulp anyway. (ta to Craig Oxbrow for the heads up)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hvkjP6dqpfY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Teju Cole, previously mentioned here during that whole Kony debacle, has been continuing his awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tejucole\">micro-length fiction on Twitter<\/a> (so different to the other microfiction I&#8217;ve seen on Twitter which is almost always about cleverness). Here he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/therecord\/2012\/08\/22\/159534467\/my-american-dream-sounds-like-black-star\">explains why a Mos Def\/Talib Kweli\/Common track from the late 90s is perfect music<\/a>. (Via Amund. Circuitous hat tip to Michael Upton who recommended listening to Black Star back before it was cool to recommend listening to Black Star.)<\/p>\n<p>Also about hippity hop music: <a href=\"http:\/\/composerscorner1.blogspot.co.nz\/2011\/11\/rap-music-analysis-7-jeanius-of-ms-jean.html\">this fascinating piece analyses the rap technique of fabulous Jean Grae<\/a> from a music composition perspective; &#038; Nathan Rabin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/1991-found-hiphop-in-transition-with-2pac-leading,84050\/\">history of hiphop reaches &#8217;91<\/a> with lots of early Tupac and a surprising-to-me revelation about MF Doom&#8217;s identity pre-MF Doom.<\/p>\n<p>Music puns! (via MrsMeows)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DwMLRL11nxk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strongfemaleprotagonist.com\/\">Strong Female Protagonist<\/a>: a neat webcomic. Gender, superhero deconstruction, social justice, other stuff. Beautiful art &#038; confident storytelling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neurobonkers.com\/2012\/07\/16\/who-influenced-who-an-epic-data-visualisation\/\">Who influenced who?<\/a> Crazy data visualisation (via Hugh Dingwall)<\/p>\n<p>NZ is considering legislation to require plain packaging for cigarettes. British American Tobacco&#8217;s response is the most reprehensible social marketing campaign in quite some time. (Big spend, too, with lots of TV ads as well as newspaper\/magazine presence.) &#8220;CREATE&#8221; shouts the advertising (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbr.co.nz\/article\/tobacco-giant-campaign-against-plain-packaging-proposals-ca-126\">see the poster on the NBR<\/a>), or if you read the small words too, If We Create It, We Should Own It. Yep, they&#8217;re making it about intellectual property, which is (1) so unlikely to succeed they&#8217;re either grasping at straws or running some elaborate double game, and (2) even more sickening than the usual corporate attempts to co-opt the idea of creative ownership. And I know this isn&#8217;t even a link, I&#8217;ve basically put a rant in the middle of a linky this week, sorry about that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-red.com\/post\/29989130545\/its-trigger-warning-week\">Laurie Penny writes an epic, personal, (very triggering of course) piece on rape<\/a>. Julian Assange on the one hand and the entire Republican party on the other have generated lots of noise on the subject lately, but this account cuts through the din.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/life-like_redhead_girl_portrait_created_with_just_ballpoint_pens\">Photorealistic portrait created with ballpoint pens<\/a>.<br \/>\nSpeaking of which: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/product-reviews\/B004FTGJUW\/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&#038;showViewpoints=1&#038;sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending\">customer reviews for BIC&#8217;s &#8220;For Her&#8221; Ballpoint Pen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forteantimes.com\/features\/articles\/2623\/the_devil_rides_out.html\">Great 2010 Fortean Times article on Dennis Wheatley<\/a>, writer of super-popular stories of Drawing Room Satanists. (via Danyl)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2012\/08\/grunge-typography\">The rise and fall of grunge typography<\/a> (via Allen Varney)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/splitsider.com\/2012\/08\/53-arrested-development-jokes-you-probably-missed\/\">53 jokes you probably missed on &#8216;Arrested Development&#8217;<\/a> (yep, most of these I missed)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XJtMpWgE-do\">163 horror movies in 2 1\/2 minutes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Earl Jones reads The Raven (via Bruce Baugh)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sXU3RfB7308\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wwOipTXvNNo\">Door does a Miles Davis impression<\/a> (via Nick Tipping)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fc03.deviantart.net\/fs70\/f\/2010\/364\/b\/0\/tardis_blueprint_file_001_by_time_lord_rassilon-d35fjuq.png\">TARDIS blueprint<\/a> (via Allen Varney)<\/p>\n<p>Maude Apatow (yes relation) writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/hellogiggles.com\/falling-out-of-love-with-twitter\">falling out of love with Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, via Russell Brown, it turns out Western music has been doing music videos wrong this whole time. K-Pop with PSY shows the way:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bZkp7q19f0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dog Shaming is being linkied everywhere but I&#8217;m linking too because it is indeed perfect. Dogs have a broad range of dog-type emotions, but &#8220;shame&#8221; might be the one that is most similar to the human version. Also canine: BARKOUR! 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