{"id":5939,"date":"2013-07-26T09:50:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T21:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:35","slug":"6-5-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=5939","title":{"rendered":"6.5 Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday we had a wee shake in our town. It felt bigger than any other earthquake I&#8217;ve ever felt &#8211; a good rumbly build up and then a few good side-to-side rocks. Since Wellington is built on a major fault line, everyone here knows there&#8217;s a big one coming one day, and having seen what happened in Christchurch this quake (and the swarm of fore- and aftershocks) certainly got the heartbeat going.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Nick happened to be playing in a live album recording as it hit:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I83eaGbZYL8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So anyway! What linky can I offer you today?<\/p>\n<p>Kiwis! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv3.co.nz\/shows\/supercity.aspx\">Make sure you watch SUPER CITY tonight 10pm!<\/a> Madeleine Sami&#8217;s genius multi-character half-hour comedy about Auckland is back for season 2. Give it some eyeballs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.shouldihangmywashingout.com\/>Should I hang my washing out?<\/a> (via David R)<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/io9.com\/a-synopsis-of-tim-burtons-batman-based-only-on-the-pri-758183831>The story of Batman according to Prince&#8217;s soundtrack<\/a> (via Pearce)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2013\/07\/texting-exes-social-media-generation.html\">Essay about how social media defaults all relationships to &#8220;ongoing&#8221;<\/a>. I have often talked about the end of goodbyes in relation to travel, but this is focused on romantic entanglements. I&#8217;m not entirely convinced by it but there&#8217;s definitely something captured here that my generation and earlier didn&#8217;t have to manage.<\/p>\n<p>My babby sister got engaged! Congrats babby sister. <a href=\"http:\/\/psych-your-mind.blogspot.co.nz\/2013\/07\/you-are-not-bridezilla.html\">Here is a discussion of how the label &#8220;Bridezilla&#8221; is used to threaten and control you!<\/a> (I think the article goes too soft on how the whole mythology &#038; industry around weddings works to encourage extreme behaviour &#8211; but full support to the notion that women have a hard enough time being assertive without the threat of being called Bridezilla if they do too good a job of it.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1673020\/in-20-years-we-re-all-going-to-realize-this-apple-ad-is-nuts\">&#8220;In 20 years we&#8217;re all going to realize this Apple ad is nuts&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/visual-poetry.tumblr.com\/post\/55793287416\/they-spellchecked-the-first-page-of-finnegans\">First page of Finnegan&#8217;s Wake, with MS Word&#8217;s spelling and grammar checker activated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I will never get tired of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/here-are-some-behind-the-scenes-photos-from-the-ea,100503\/\">behind-the-scenes photos from classic-era Sesame Street<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedissolve.com\/features\/frames\/20-ibefore-midnighti-draft\/\">A lovely redesign of the posters for the Before&#8230; films.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Visible Hand in Economics reviews inequality-is-bad core text, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvhe.co.nz\/2013\/07\/18\/review-spirit-level\/\">The Spirit Level, and finds it wanting<\/a>. I feel like I need the book to hand to really engage with this, but I&#8217;m keen to give its argument a proper shakedown through this lens. Of course, I&#8217;m also inclined to think most straight economic arguments underweight the psychological effects of inequality &#8211; see, for example, this Upworthy clip about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/take-two-normal-people-add-money-to-just-one-of-them-and-watch-what-happens-next?g=3&#038;c=bl3\">what happens when you set up a rigged game of Monopoly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/16\/science\/linguist-finds-a-language-in-its-infancy.html?smid=tw-share&#038;\">Linguist finds a language in the process of being born<\/a> (via Maire)<\/p>\n<p>Evie found a version of Alanis&#8217;s &#8220;Ironic&#8221; that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=32LCwZFoKio&#038;feature=youtu.be\">rewritten to actually be ironic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/its-time-to-finally-give-up-on-the-loch-ness-monster\/\">It&#8217;s time to finally give up on the Loch Ness Monster<\/a> (includes link to that one xkcd strip)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mlpomo.blogspot.co.nz\/\">My Little Po-Mo<\/a>: deep-culture analysis of <em>My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic<\/em>, in the style of my favourite pop-culture blog, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipsandifer.com\/p\/tardis-eruditorum.html\">Tardis Eruditorium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/2013\/06\/19\/37-conversation-rules-for-gentleman-from-1875\/\">Conversation rules for gentlemen (c. 1875)<\/a> (via Kate Beaton)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/donnad\/disney-characters-as-modern-day-college-students\">Disney characters as modern-day College students<\/a> (via Hamish Cameron) &#8211; some of these just NAIL it. Aladdin!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/koreas-photoshop-trolls-make-the-internet-a-better-pla-728449290\">Korea&#8217;s photoshop trolls make the world a better place<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Star Wars content: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksaresexy.net\/2012\/10\/03\/wtf-belly-dancing-female-wookiee-backed-by-a-klingon-band\/\">Belly-dancing female Wookiee backed by a Klingon band<\/a> (via Billy)<\/p>\n<p>And finally, via David R&#8230; the movies sing Ice, Ice Baby<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oxCKw3VbU54\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday we had a wee shake in our town. It felt bigger than any other earthquake I&#8217;ve ever felt &#8211; a good rumbly build up and then a few good side-to-side rocks. 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