{"id":5863,"date":"2013-05-17T00:37:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T12:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=5863"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:37","slug":"future-news-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=5863","title":{"rendered":"Future News Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not Early Edition<\/a> style future news. I bashed out a new article for the Ruminator<\/a>, about what news websites are going to look like in a decade. Hint: a lot less like newspapers, a lot more like interactive infographics.<\/p>\n

The alternate moose<\/a> just tipped me off to the existence of some weird, interesting group creation thingamies at Reddit. You’ve heard of “first world problems”, right? Reddit has developed that concept somewhat, in some pretty bizarre ways. Find out more about the screaming and the tower and the giant wasps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Very tangentially related: middle class movie posters<\/a><\/p>\n

Mail order husbands<\/a> (via Gator)<\/p>\n

Deep Throat in the 21st century: Wired has a guide on how to leak something and not get nailed for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An interactive visualisation of every running joke in Arrested Development<\/a>. (via David Ritchie, and then the entire AD-loving internets.) AD has to be the densest<\/em> TV show ever, right? There’s just so much stuff in every episode. And with new episodes almost due, AD lovers really need to check out this delightful taster: Insert Me Anywhere<\/a><\/p>\n

GeoGuesser<\/a> is a fantastic browser game and destroyer of productivity. It lands you in a random Google Maps Street View spot, and you have to guess where in the world you are. (again via David Ritchie then everybody.)<\/p>\n

I’ve made it about a quarter of the way through Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story<\/em> audiobook. Really good stuff, full of things I didn’t know and vital connecting tissue linking things I did know. The author has supported the book with a marvellous tumblr full of scanned original art, period photos, and other bits and pieces. Here’s one that deserves a wider audience than the comics geekery, though: four young Japanese Americans, reading comics in an internment camp<\/a>; Howe adds some poignancy by working out exactly what was going on in the comic stories they were reading.<\/p>\n

The Battle of Helm’s Deep, in Lego<\/a>. The scale of this model freaks me out.<\/p>\n

You’ve tried typing “Atari Breakout” into Google image search<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n

All right. There have been some impressive home-built Iron Man costumes over the last couple years, but this GW Space Marine is outright scary:
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