{"id":6023,"date":"2013-12-13T00:19:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T11:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2013-12-13T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T22:35:23","slug":"invisible-cow-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6023","title":{"rendered":"Invisible Cow Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi (still making Rolling Stone worthwhile all by himself) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/news\/apocalypse-new-jersey-a-dispatch-from-americas-most-desperate-town-20131211\">breaks down the situation in Camden<\/a> &#8211; one of the USA&#8217;s dying cities. The man who struck the killing blow? <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/29\/christie-leads-possible-2016-gop-contenders-in-cnnorc-poll\/\">Leading candidate for the Republican candidacy<\/a>, Gov Chris Christie. (via Amund)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/253872\/this-is-the-twistiest-tongue-twister-ever-says-science\">Twistiest tongue twister ever<\/a>. But it&#8217;s a nonsense phrase as far as I can tell, which is cheating as far as I&#8217;m concerned&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>People with opinions about the NZ film industry ought to read <a href=\"http:\/\/publicaddress.net\/8941\">Jonathan King&#8217;s perspective on the thorny issues of subsidies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>I wrote a Python script to run the Monty Hall problem 1000s of times. You&#39;re better off changing your mind. Plus, I want that hour back.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Ritchie, Esq. (@dritchie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dritchie\/statuses\/411062327505469441\">December 12, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328\">Confirmed: the Universe is a hologram<\/a>! (Actually more technical and theoretical than this, of course, of course, but it&#8217;s always good to be reminded that for several decades hardcore scientists have basically concluded our perception of reality is wildly screwed up.) (via Chris Elder)<\/p>\n<p>Love Actually movie critic showdown. I&#8217;ll just link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/12\/-em-love-actually-em-is-the-least-romantic-film-of-all-time\/282091\/\">opening salvo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/12\/-em-love-actually-em-still-awful\/282273\/\">finishing move<\/a>, both by Christopher Orr. The second one links to a bunch of other responses. Sadly only five words survive of <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=10\">my post about it from a decade ago<\/a>: &#8220;Went to see the new Brithope&#8221;. I said this whole thing that I&#8217;ve never seen anyone else get into. I might have also talked about the Keira Knightley\/Egg storyline, because that&#8217;s by far the most interesting to talk about &#8211; Orr devotes most of his second piece to attacking it with gleeful ferocity. Love Actually! It has become a Christmas classic, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grinding.be\/2013\/12\/06\/guns-for-armes-the-amazing-true-story-of-the-worlds-first-real-life-superhero\/\">The world&#8217;s first real-life superhero<\/a>. A gunfighting PI with hooks for hands. Weird and fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>Upworthy headlines! Everyone is talkign about them now, not just me. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/12\/why-are-upworthy-headlines-suddenly-everywhere\/282048\/\">They are a thing<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>7-year old Russian kid draws pictures of himself riding around shooting bad guys. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldschp.net\/SIG\/onfim\/onfim.html\">The pictures date from the 13th century<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/12\/06\/gracie-hagen_n_4393887.html\">Arresting series of nude photos<\/a> &#8211; raises some questions about being &#8220;attractive&#8221;. Just fun. Not safe for work, obviously. (via Susan IIRC?)<\/p>\n<p>This clip of Jason Segel and Paul Rudd, promoting 2009 bromance I Love You Man, has been doing the rounds. Because they are obviously really tired and it all goes very weird. Lovely<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I4ix1HSzpWE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAnd it gives me an excuse to link to <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1071\">my review of the film<\/a>, which was a real high point of this blog if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lordotrings.com\/noflash\/books\/meditations.asp\">Ursula K. LeGuin goes deep &#038; smart into Tolkien &#038; Middle-earth<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattfraction.com\/post\/69631291526\/cinephilearchive-a-document-of-exceptional\">Ray Bradbury&#8217;s newly-released script for Moby Dick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dogbehaviorscience.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/29\/100-years-of-breed-improvement\/\">You&#8217;ve all seen this dog breeding thing, right?<\/a> Damn. The photos are intense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/entertainment\/sports\/201311\/nfl-bubble-players-undrafted-training-camp\">What life is like for players right on the bubble of being in the NFL<\/a> (via Blaise)<\/p>\n<p>Model of the <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/82jfaIc.jpg\">I Love Lucy soundstage from above<\/a>. Wondrous, somehow. (thanks David R for advising that <a href=\"http:\/\/stitchintime.typepad.com\/stitch_in_time\/2010\/08\/i-love-lucy-museum.html\">this is a model<\/a>, not a pic of the real thing! D&#8217;oh.)<\/p>\n<p>And finally, via Hamish: <a href=\"http:\/\/findtheinvisiblecow.com\/\">find the invisible cow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi (still making Rolling Stone worthwhile all by himself) breaks down the situation in Camden &#8211; one of the USA&#8217;s dying cities. The man who struck the killing blow? Leading candidate for the Republican candidacy, Gov Chris Christie. (via Amund) Twistiest tongue twister ever. But it&#8217;s a nonsense phrase as far as I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Invisible Cow 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-6023","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-1z9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023","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=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6027,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}