{"id":5969,"date":"2013-08-30T00:41:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T12:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2013-08-30T00:41:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T12:41:18","slug":"dream-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=5969","title":{"rendered":"Dream Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only Martin Luther King link I want to offer is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/report-now-sadly-the-best-time-in-american-history,33661\/\">from the Onion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Star Drunk: a film written by drunk people, then acted by drunk people. It is&#8230; very watchable.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yPrtQ9AdoM0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in compelling fashion of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2013\/08\/or-perhaps-you-are-too-stupid-to-learn-french\/278845\/\">ongoing mission learning French in Paris<\/a>. Speaking as someone who is 95% monolingual, this feels very truthful to me. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/category\/paris\">The whole series of Paris dispatches<\/a> is worth a read.)<\/p>\n<p>What happened to those new words added to the dictionary in the 90s? Here&#8217;s a great antidote to the news coverage about &#8220;twerking&#8221; and &#8220;selfie&#8221; going in the dictionary &#8211; a smart, funny, generous look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/08\/the-rad-new-words-added-to-the-dictionary-in-the-90s-where-are-they-now\/279145\/\">the fate of some 90s additions like &#8220;e-tailing&#8221; and &#8220;netizen&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonappetit.com\/blogsandforums\/blogs\/badaily\/2013\/08\/attack-killer-tomatoes-history.html\">An oral history of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.<\/a> I remember the stage of childhood when you learned about horror movies only through playground rumour; the Killer Tomatoes sounded exactly as terrifying and serious a proposition as the killer shark in Jaws. We knew there was a joke in the very idea of killer tomatoes &#8211; but it sounded like a pretty scary joke.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/2013\/08\/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world\/\">40 maps that will help you make sense of the world<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marvellous article by Charlie Stross on how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2013\/08\/snowden-leaks-the-real-take-ho.html\">Generation Y have been molded by Western capitalist culture in such a way that they will readily betray the secrets of Western capitalist culture<\/a>.  [I skipped the Linky last week (still busy) and since then this essay has been reworked into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2013\/08\/28\/spy_kids_nsa_surveillance_next_generation\">an article in Foreign Policy<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>Detailed account (from 1898) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~beattie\/timeline\/rlstext.html\">Robert Louis Stevenson&#8217;s development of a wargaming system and the battles fought thereby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2013\/07\/8-epic-landscapes-of-the-same-tiny-house\/\">8 epic photographs of the same house<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artfido.com\/blog\/photographic-series-showing-what-200-calories-looks-like-in-different-foods\/\">What 200 calories looks like in different foods<\/a> (via Damon) (no of course I don&#8217;t give a hoot about calorie counting but this still interested me enormously)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/114468593663912084118\/posts\/ECSiisiWQrm\">Star Wars Propaganda Posters<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/07\/this-1-minute-horror-movie-will-make-you-jump.html\">A 1-minute horror movie<\/a> &#8211; this worked on me, that&#8217;s for sure. (via Frank N)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffzoet.zenfolio.com\/scoobydoo\">Scooby-Doo reimagined<\/a> (via Pearce)<\/p>\n<p>And finally, via Nick Tipping, sheep protest:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QcE5aDTszrY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only Martin Luther King link I want to offer is from the Onion. Star Drunk: a film written by drunk people, then acted by drunk people. It is&#8230; very watchable. Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in compelling fashion of his ongoing mission learning French in Paris. Speaking as someone who is 95% monolingual, this feels very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=5969\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dream Linky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-5969","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-1yh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969","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=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5970,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}