{"id":5052,"date":"2013-03-22T00:42:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T11:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:39","slug":"gun-thumb-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=5052","title":{"rendered":"Gun Thumb Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/laurie-penny\/2013\/03\/steubenville-rape-cultures-abu-ghraib-moment\">Laurie Penny on Steubenville.<\/a> And, the Good Men Project has a potent primer on <a href=\"http:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/ethics-values\/so-youre-tired-of-hearing-about-rape-culture\/\">rape culture<\/a>. That&#8217;s all I can bear on the subject right now. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelovecraftsman.com\/2011\/08\/50-amazing-cthulhu-cakes-that-look.html?m=1\">Cthulhu cakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music videos have been done as action movies before, but this one is a <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/62092214\">particularly fine example of the form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1988, the LA Times described <a href=\"http:\/\/documents.latimes.com\/la-2013\/\">the far future world of 2013<\/a>&#8230; (via Miri)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petapixel.com\/2013\/03\/18\/shopped-stills-from-action-movies-with-guns-replaced-with-thumbs-ups\/\">Movie guns changed to movie thumbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/undergradhist.tumblr.com\/>Undergraduate history, illustrated<\/a> (via Hamish Cameron)<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/filth-flarn-filth-flarn-filth-13-standup-routines,93964\/>The AV Club rounds up 13 great stand-up stories about meeting celebrities.<\/a> This is good stuff, I actually listened to more than half of these. They lead with one by Tig Notaro that my fellow This American Life listeners will recall. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/leonoraepstein\/spocks-advice-to-a-teenage-girl-will-make-you-cry\">Mr Spock&#8217;s great advice to a biracial teenage girl<\/a> (via tof)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/1717\">Dylan Horrocks draws critters from the Monster Manual<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lovely new food blog by a friend of this parish: <a href=\"http:\/\/nomallthethings.wordpress.com\/\">Nom All The Things<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fourthwave.quora.com\/From-a-skin-flick-to-bluetooth-One-womans-amazing-life\">She started out in nudie films, and ended up making your mobile phone work<\/a>. Along the way she met Hitler. Hers is a very unlikely story, nicely told here &#8211; I knew most of the dots here, but not how they connected. (via Peter B)<\/p>\n<p>Great Disney spoof: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/03\/13\/after-ever-after-disney-jon-cozart_n_2867739.html\">After Ever After<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daylandoes.com\/facebook-like-scams\/\">Clear explanation of the logic behind those dumb Facebook posts that get tens of thousands of comments and likes.<\/a> (via Julian von Sligo)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/she-the-people\/wp\/2013\/03\/16\/what-a-swedish-mannequin-hoax-reveals-about-body-image\/\">That &#8220;plus-sized&#8221; Swedish mannequin that burned up the social media last week<\/a>? It was a hoax. [No it wasn&#8217;t! Check the link! Thanks Evie &#038; Gem!] Which actually interests me even more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekdraw.com\/main\/2013\/3\/12\/candid-superhero-moments-by-phil-noto.html\">Candid superhero moments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luke&#8217;s Change: a Star Wars conspiracy theory? (via everybody &#038; their brother)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2dvv-Yib1Xg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2013\/03\/19\/the-star-wars-family-tree-who-married-who-begat-and-who-battled-whom\/\">Star Wars family tree<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, via John Machin, <a href=\"http:\/\/procatinator.com\/\">the Procatinator<\/a>. This is a hit or miss kinda automated thing, but the hits made me laugh beyond the power of speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurie Penny on Steubenville. And, the Good Men Project has a potent primer on rape culture. That&#8217;s all I can bear on the subject right now. Cthulhu cakes Music videos have been done as action movies before, but this one is a particularly fine example of the form. 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