{"id":4007,"date":"2013-01-25T00:04:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T11:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:42","slug":"boo-urns-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=4007","title":{"rendered":"Boo-urns Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Burns\">Boo-urns<\/a> Night! Here&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/407.shtml\">The Raptures of Folly<\/a>&#8221; in entirety:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thou greybeard, old Wisdom! may boast of thy treasures;<br \/>\nGive me with young Folly to live;<br \/>\nI grant thee thy calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures,<br \/>\nBut Folly has raptures to give. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Gator found this neat interactive: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.org\/interactives\/rhyme-with-rabbie-burns\">rhyme with Rabbie Burns<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Via Nate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foddy.net\/Athletics.html\">QWOP, a running game you play right in your browser<\/a>! This is AMAZING.<\/p>\n<p>Also via Nate: <a href=\"http:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/\">Quote Investigator<\/a> &#8211; was that inspirational quote really said by the person you think it was?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metalsucks.net\/2013\/01\/10\/six-year-old-girl-pens-grindcore-tune-about-pancakes\/\">6-year-old girl writes a grindcore song about pancakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Splendid drive-thru prank: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/sideshow\/drive-thru-prank-leaves-workers-questioning-reality-214808352.html\">the invisible driver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2013\/01\/09\/video-buffy-stunt-co-ordinator-releases-his-archive-of-behind-the-scenes-footage\/\">Buffy&#8217;s stunt co-ordinator releases a bunch of behind-the-scenes footage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/jan\/09\/history-society\">Wade Davis vs. Jared Diamond<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/entertainment\/comments\/15y5tj\/characters_in_friends_didnt_have_85_total_sex\/\">How many people did the Friends sleep with? Someone spent a lot of time working this out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/lousy_book_covers\">Lousy Book Covers &#8211; your new favourite tumblr<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/usercontent\/2010\/8\/6\/the-quality-cafe-in-movies-mash-up-1895804\">Spot the Quality Cafe in many films!<\/a> (via David R esq.) &#8211; and &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_20173_6-places-youll-recognize-from-background-every-movie.html\">6 places you&#8217;ll recognise from the background of every movie<\/a> (via Dylan)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/01\/07\/130107fa_fact_green\">The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins, pickpocket<\/a> &#8211; great New Yorker article, went viral for a reason! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/original-indiana-jones-trilogy-as-maps\/\">Indiana Jones trilogy as maps<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xojane.com\/family\/what-my-mother-taught-me-about-the-eff-words-feminism-and-fear\">&#8220;My mom was an underground railroad for abused women&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science comes clean: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5974256\/overlyhonestmethods-is-the-postsecret-of-the-science-world-and-it-is-amazing\">Overly Honest Methods<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/01\/09\/bigjigs_bid\/\">Toy train company bids for a major UK railroad. It gets a reply.<\/a> (via Alan Jackson)<\/p>\n<p>The girl who played Veruca Salt in the classic Willy Wonka film <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/01\/09\/memoir-of-the-making-of-willy.html\">wrote a book about it<\/a> that is (a) free to download [EDIT: nope, not any more, it&#8217;s now US$10!], and (b) apparently really great. (via Gino)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/2013\/01\/14\/handiwork\/\">Beware the occult hand!<\/a> (via Allen Varney)<\/p>\n<p>The Fresh Prince theme song lyrics, after google translation:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LMkJuDVJdTw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/project.wnyc.org\/butthen\/#359\">The &#8220;But Thens&#8221; of <em>This American Life<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/52suburbs.com\/2013\/01\/16\/te-aro\/\">Photographer visits Wellington and blogs about it<\/a> (via Pearce)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworldandthensome.com\/wellington-more-hipster-than-shoreditch\/\">And another one does the same thing<\/a> (via Gem Wilder)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2013\/01\/this-is-a-flash-mob-playing-here-comes-the-sun-in-a-spanish-unemployment-office\/267084\/\">Spanish unemployment office is flashmobbed with a lovely &#8220;Here Comes The Sun&#8221;.<\/a> Just a nice thing.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like the new Before&#8230; film is actually good. And, exhale! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slantmagazine.com\/house\/2010\/01\/before-sunrise-and-before-sunset-laden-with-happiness-and-tears\/\">Here&#8217;s a neat essay about <em>Before Sunrise<\/em> and <em>Before Sunset<\/em><\/a>, to get you in the mood. (I remember when the first film was released, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X95Kby19_Ms\">this was the scene everyone was talking about<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oeaw.ac.at\/kal\/sh\/\">What did Homer singing his epics sound like?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2013\/01\/hobbit-contract-legal-analysis\/\">A lawyer goes, in enormous detail, through that giant contract from <em>The Hobbit<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksaresexy.net\/2013\/01\/14\/detailed-lotr-art-dazzles-your-eyes-with-color-pics\/\">Some quite lovely and unusual LotR fan art<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ammonra.org\/skywalkerparadigm\/a_leiaknew_anh_comp.html\">The Skywalker Paradigm<\/a> (gotta have a Star Wars link, huh)<\/p>\n<p>Via Gilmans, some travel advisory: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruiseshipdeaths.com\/\">Cruise Ship Deaths<\/a>! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misstravel.com\/\">Miss Travel<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>And finally, the weirdest thing I&#8217;ve seen in a while: <a href=http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/the_revolution_will_be_glamorized_sharon_tate_models_mao_tse_tung_1967>Sharon Tate models Mao Tse Tung<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Boo-urns Night! Here&#8217;s &#8220;The Raptures of Folly&#8221; in entirety: Thou greybeard, old Wisdom! may boast of thy treasures; Give me with young Folly to live; I grant thee thy calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures, But Folly has raptures to give. The Gator found this neat interactive: rhyme with Rabbie Burns! Via Nate: QWOP, a running game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=4007\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boo-urns 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-4007","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-12D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","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=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5738,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions\/5738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}