{"id":6075,"date":"2014-01-24T09:05:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2014-01-24T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:07:49","slug":"burns-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6075","title":{"rendered":"Burns Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;O thou! whatever title suit thee,\u2014<br \/>\nAuld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie!<br \/>\nWha in yon cavern, grim an&#8217; sootie,<br \/>\n       Clos&#8217;d under hatches,<br \/>\nSpairges about the brunstane cootie<br \/>\n       To scaud poor wretches!&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nRobert Burns: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/173053\">Address to the Devil<\/a><br \/>\nNot the Bard&#8217;s best work &#8211; he calls himself out for ranting in the second-last stanza! &#8211; but reliably funny. And if you can read Burns without sounding it out in your head and grinning, you&#8217;re a more disciplined soul than me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/01\/20\/tyler-durden-removed-fight-club\/\">Fight Club carpark fight sequence, with Tyler Durden removed.<\/a><br \/>\n&#038; at the same link: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/01\/20\/tyler-durden-removed-fight-club\/\">30 films from 1984, all turning thirty this year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slendytime.com\/post\/a50028ee308\">Harry Potter: images from a world where Voldemort won<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Piles of old magazines &#038; newspapers, each pile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randallrosenthal.com\/Pages\/New%20Pages\/whats_new.htm\">carved out of a single block of wood<\/a>. Whoa.<\/p>\n<p>Clever miniature photography that makes <a href=http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/here-are-some-awesome-photos-that-make-star-wars-t-107136>Star Wars model vehicles look real<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/r\/Infographics\/1fh6eyc\">Infographic of whisky flavour profiles<\/a> (via Mundens)<\/p>\n<p>A while back my friend Johnnie excitedly mentioned he&#8217;d just been working in the recording studio with Brian &#8220;Brian Blessed&#8221; Blessed. This is why: a World of Warcraft animated fan film. Trailer below, full movie has just been released, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathknightlovestory.com\/\">find out more here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/84667337?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"213\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/84667337\">TRAILER &#8211; Death Knight Love Story Pt 1 &#8211; Jack Davenport, Anna Chancellor, Joanna Lumley, Brian Blessed<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/strangecompany\">Strange Company<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A solidly enjoyable compilation of 6-second videos, each a mind-blowing trick of digital editing:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sJIx4fRuOmE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/CambridgeCRIA\/the-best-of-sixwordpeerreview\">Six-word peer review<\/a> (via Karen W)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2014\/01\/how-to-hack-okcupid\/all\/\">How a math geek hacked OKCupid to find his perfect match<\/a>. Hmmn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/features\/an-oral-history-swingers\/\">An oral history of SWINGERS.<\/a> I will love this movie forever.<\/p>\n<p>A speculative map: <a href=\"http:\/\/arabist.net\/blog\/2014\/1\/15\/africa-if-it-had-not-been-colonized\">Africa if it had not been colonised<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2014\/01\/do_what_you_love_love_what_you_do_an_omnipresent_mantra_that_s_bad_for_work.html\">The nasty messages hidden in &#8220;Do what you love, love what you do&#8221;<\/a> (via Richie G)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.wikia.com\/Neil_Tennant\">Marvel Comics wiki on Neil Tennant and the Pet Shop Boys<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/adambvary\/buffyverse-characters-ranked-worst-to-best\">117 Buffyverse characters, ranked worst to best<\/a>. Impressively committed to the idea of ranking characters. (Via Eliza Dushku, funnily enough.)<\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230; Prodigy&#8217;s Firestarter music video, without music<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CDXNfe2W8c8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;O thou! whatever title suit thee,\u2014 Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie! Wha in yon cavern, grim an&#8217; sootie, Clos&#8217;d under hatches, Spairges about the brunstane cootie To scaud poor wretches!&#8221; Robert Burns: Address to the Devil Not the Bard&#8217;s best work &#8211; he calls himself out for ranting in the second-last stanza! &#8211; but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6075\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burns 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-6075","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-1zZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","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=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6082,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}