{"id":3979,"date":"2012-11-30T00:12:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T11:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:42","slug":"scooby-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3979","title":{"rendered":"Scooby Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2012\/11\/28\/3699422\/sexism-gaming-twitter-discussion-1reasonwhy\">Polygon&#8217;s coverage<\/a> of the explosive conversation on the challenges faced by women in the games industry &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1reasonwhy.net\/\">1 Reason Why<\/a>. My favourite spin-off thread, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avantgame\/status\/273317840436740097\">Jane McGonigal noting the conspicuous absence of a 50 Shades Of Grey game<\/a> (and then building a team and tossing concepts around).<\/p>\n<p>Scientific journal <em>Nature<\/em> looks at its gender balance numbers and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/nature-s-sexism-1.11850\">faces up to some uncomfortable truths about itself<\/a> (via MrsMeows)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/11\/28\/girls-crappy-fake-toy-laptop.html\">Toy laptop for boys vs. toy laptop for girls<\/a>. Can you guess how they are different? Well, one of them looks like a laptop, and the other is bright pink. But that ain&#8217;t even the worst thing. (via Theremina)<\/p>\n<p>Letters of Note: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2012\/11\/hot-hot-hot.html\">Will &#038; Grace producer owns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all seen that rather fantastic and possibly going-too-far <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/the_funniest_meanest_ghost_prank_probably_ever\">elevator ghost prank<\/a>? How about <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/NeXMxuNNlE8\">this other elevator prank, with a collapsing floor<\/a>? (via Naomi Guyer, warning: this is marketing for LG). Elevators = fundamentally freaky places.<\/p>\n<p>The first bootlegs of The Hobbit are already out there. Watch it before it gets taken down! The special effects aren&#8217;t quite as good as I expected.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6m0l3Yr1B50\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n(via Pearce)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/legohaulic\/8228212630\/\">Lego Blade Runner street<\/a> (Via Malc)<\/p>\n<p>On Paleofuture &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/paleofuture\/2012\/11\/future-classics-readers-of-1936-predict-which-authors-will-endure\/\">1936 literary folk predict which authors will endure<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2012\/11\/12\/the-awesomely-creepy-background-art-of-scooby-doo\/\">The awesomely creepy background art from the original Scooby Doo cartoons.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/11\/121120193529.htm\">A new explanation for some famous psychology experiments<\/a>, the prisoners vs wardens one and the electric shocks one. And if anything we humans come out looking even less admirable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/2012\/11\/15\/art-of-the-genre-art-of-the-disappearing-mmorpg\/#more-40958\">Online worlds after all the players stop turning up &#8211; abandoned fantastic cities <\/a> (via Ed)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lbo-news.com\/2012\/11\/14\/rolling-jubilee-ps\/\">Thoughtful &#038; detailed look at Occupy&#8217;s Rolling Jubilee idea<\/a>, finding it nice but deeply flawed. (via Making Light)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secrethistoriesproject.tumblr.com\/about\">The Secret Histories Project<\/a> &#8211; 50 people who never turned up in your history classes (via Gem Wilder)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinndunki.com\/OGOL\/GATE.html\">GATE, a puzzle game about Mars, robots and logic<\/a> (free to download)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mothcity.com\/\">Kiwi dark crime webcomic Moth City<\/a> &#8211; really good! (supported by Creative NZ no less) &#8211; sequential art peeps will want to see how it layers and changes elements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/cat-friend-vs-dog-friend-two-humans-acting-like-house-pets\/\">What if a cat &#038; a dog were your (human) flatmates?<\/a> (via Mike Foster)<\/p>\n<p>And finally: apparently I never got around to sharing this linky: <a href=\"http:\/\/unrealitymag.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/28\/nicolas-cage-as-cats-that-is-all\/\">Nic Cage as cats<\/a> (via Bef)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polygon&#8217;s coverage of the explosive conversation on the challenges faced by women in the games industry &#8211; 1 Reason Why. My favourite spin-off thread, Jane McGonigal noting the conspicuous absence of a 50 Shades Of Grey game (and then building a team and tossing concepts around). Scientific journal Nature looks at its gender balance numbers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=3979\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scooby 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-3979","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-12b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","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=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5748,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}