{"id":3963,"date":"2012-11-09T00:10:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T11:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:43","slug":"mobama-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3963","title":{"rendered":"Mo&#8217;bama Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 8 years of Dubya, Americans were so out of control they accidentally elected a black man. Four years later? Four years of relentless obstruction and lunatic rage at his presidency? I kinda think <em>re-<\/em>electing a black man is the greater achievement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/interactive\/2012\/nov\/06\/america-elect-graphic-novel\">US election retold in cleverly animated webcomic form<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/iconic_album_covers_re_imagined_with_superheroes\">Iconic album covers reimagined with superheroes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebaffler.com\/past\/to_the_precinct_station\">Cutting, important argument about why Occupy Wall Street failed<\/a> &#8211; because it was too mired in academia, for a start. Don&#8217;t agree with everything here but there are definitely some home truths for supporters of the Occupy movement. (via Amund)<\/p>\n<p>Craaaazy amazing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/alexs-adventures-in-numberland\/2012\/oct\/29\/mathematics\">a mental abacus &#8220;sport&#8221; that goes SO FAST.<\/a> Wow! (via Maire)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonglobe.com\/ideas\/2012\/11\/03\/abc-proof-too-tough-even-for-mathematicians\/o9bja4kwPuXhDeDb2Ana2K\/story.html\">&#038; a potential breakthrough in mathematics<\/a> &#8211; turns out there&#8217;s something more to know about a + b = c. The guy who&#8217;s advanced this proof sounds like a very interesting cat. (via Ivan)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beesgo.biz\/horp.html\">Who said it: Hitler or Lovecraft?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Necronomicon &#8211; it&#8217;s like the Bible, but different! (via Craig Oxbrow)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FnbYcB9ctu8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/04\/magazine\/in-praise-of-the-hashtag.html\">In praise of the hashtag<\/a>. The hashtag as new literary device? This writeup is actually off on several things, but it gets a lot right. The # is the symbol character of the &#8217;10s just like the @ was the symbol character of the &#8217;00s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/SWd-aQY6Wb2Fo\/videos?view=0\">Christopher Walkenthrough<\/a>: computer game walkthroughs in the voice of Christopher Walken (via Dave Chapman)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slipsum.com\/\">Samuel L Jackson Lorem Ipsum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How can there not be a movie of this? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/The-Great-Escape-From-Slavery-of-Ellen-and-William-Craft.html#ixzz2B20Rxd7N\">An amazing slave escape story<\/a>. Edge-of-the-seat true life adventures!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2012\/11\/01\/video-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-once-more-with-feeling-was-performed-live-last-night\/\">That Kate Nash performed the Buffy musical episode. <\/a> (Kate Nash gets a lot of flack, but Scroobius Pip rates her, so.) (That Buffy musical episode is a great episode of TV, but I still think it really doesn&#8217;t work outside of that context.) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2012\/10\/sugar-industry-lies-campaign\">Big Sugar has been weirding the evidence of the dangers of sugar for years. Like Big Tobacco, only successful.<\/a> Fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalofficeofimportance.blogspot.co.uk\/\">The National Office of Importance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesnuggery.org\/index.html\">The Snuggery<\/a> (via Pearce)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 8 years of Dubya, Americans were so out of control they accidentally elected a black man. Four years later? Four years of relentless obstruction and lunatic rage at his presidency? I kinda think re-electing a black man is the greater achievement. 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