{"id":3143,"date":"2012-10-12T00:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T11:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:44","slug":"vote-romney-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3143","title":{"rendered":"Vote Romney Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still not convinced this isn&#8217;t a brilliant satire, but &#8211; via Lev Lafayette &#8211; a video that will totally convince you to vote Romney. Fantastic, right to the end.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bzvm7zd4Z-s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve embedded a lot of video this week. That&#8217;s made the blog hiccup in the past &#8211; if anyone hits problems loading the page, give me a comment or email and I&#8217;ll turn some of the embeds into links.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cyberneticzoo.com\/?page_id=41\">Timeline of cybernetic creatures<\/a> (via Bruce Sterling)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2012\/10\/looper-downloadable-commentary\/\">Get a commentary track for a movie that is still in theatres.<\/a> Start of a new trend?<\/p>\n<p>The AVClub lay out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/the-50-best-films-of-the-90s-1-of-3,86304\/\">50 best films of the 90s<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/the-50-best-films-of-the-90s-2-of-3,86361\/\">Part 2<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/the-50-best-films-of-the-90s-3-of-3,86467\/\">Part 3<\/a>)  I remember the 90s. It was a time when I went to a lot of movies. I have seen most of these films. Though I still haven&#8217;t watched their pick for #1 film, mostly due to my longstanding (and mostly irrational) aversion to the subject matter. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/lUWTG\">Fantastic hacking of the graphics on the London tube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bad Lip Reading has been around for a while, but this takes their work to a Whole. New. Level. Don&#8217;t skip this one.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QlwilbVYvUg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2012\/10\/10\/jurassic-park-4-concept-art-for-the-scrapped-dino-superior-version\/\">Concept art from the legendary unmade John Sayles sequel to Jurassic Park<\/a>, which involved dinosaurs becoming a military special operations squad.<\/p>\n<p>Orkney, man. That place is remote as all get out, but also it turns out, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2012\/oct\/06\/orkney-temple-centre-ancient-britain?CMP=twt_gu\">way more important than you&#8217;d guess way back in the day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2012\/10\/most-citizens-of-the-star-wars-galaxy-are-probably-totally-illiterate\">Star Wars people = illiterate<\/a> (via Paul)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jessnevins.com\/encyclopedia\/characterlist.html\">Encyclopedia of Golden Age superheroes<\/a>. By Jess Nevins, who is the planetary expert on this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>An exam gets interrupted in a memorable way<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1lyHQLyZUuM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/devlin\/devlin_06_04.html\">The Golden Ratio: unlearn what you know about it, folks<\/a>. (Art History people &#038; Maths people will be particularly interested in this.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/photographs_of_movie_stills_in_their_original_location\">Movie stills in their locations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick Offerman (him from Parks &#038; Recreation) did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/z5asn\/im_nick_offerman_i_play_ron_swanson_on_parks_and\/\">a lengthy &#8220;Ask Me Anything&#8221; with the denizens of Reddit<\/a>. I do not watch this show but I enjoyed skimming over this. If you are a fan, then it will tickle you I expect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meanjin.com.au\/articles\/post\/encounters-with-the-uncanny\/\">A lovely essay about encountering the uncanny, in the ghosts and hauntings sense<\/a>. (via Dylan)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/10\/10\/illustration-from-a-peer-revie.html\">Scientific research produces a comic strip showing the poignant fate of an unlucky panda<\/a>. (via @fogonwater)<\/p>\n<p>And finally, here is a thing,<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k9wt5TrI7II\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n(EDIT: Nick Moylan found it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aXtYyuZGHlg\">in English!<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still not convinced this isn&#8217;t a brilliant satire, but &#8211; via Lev Lafayette &#8211; a video that will totally convince you to vote Romney. Fantastic, right to the end. (I&#8217;ve embedded a lot of video this week. That&#8217;s made the blog hiccup in the past &#8211; if anyone hits problems loading the page, give me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vote Romney 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_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[11],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-3143","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-OH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","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=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5767,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}