{"id":6247,"date":"2014-05-30T08:54:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T20:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2014-05-30T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T03:50:15","slug":"legopunk-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6247","title":{"rendered":"Legopunk Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Burke found <a href=\"http:\/\/mindhacks.com\/2014\/05\/26\/the-best-way-to-win-an-argument\/\">this neat description of a more effective way to win arguments<\/a> than saying &#8220;I can prove you&#8217;re wrong!&#8221; Not suitable for all circumstances, but I&#8217;m adding it to my arsenal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/459363\/the-25-most-underrated-movies-of-the-2000s\/\">The 25 most underrated movies of the 90s<\/a> (via Edel)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/dystopian_lego_cyberpunk_city_is_straight_out_of_blade_runner\">Cyberpunk city made out of Lego<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gustave_%28crocodile%29\">Gustave the crocodile has his own wikipedia page<\/a>. He is believed to have killed 300 people. (I discovered his existence through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/snap-judgment\/2013\/12\/13\/250853820\/\">Snap Judgment podcast&#8217;s Monsters<\/a> episode.) (The Wee Beastie watched today an episode of a Disney kids show featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/docmcstuffins.wikia.com\/wiki\/Gustov_Gator%27s_Gulp\">an alligator called Gustov<\/a>&#8230; coincidence or conspiracy?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/the-worst-waiter-in-history\/\">The worst waiter in history<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lowbudgetbeasts.tumblr.com\/\">Low-budget Beasts<\/a> (shared with love, costuming the Beast is HARD)<\/p>\n<p>A great 7-minute film pointing out how Edgar Wright uses all kinds of filmmaking tricks to make his films funny, while other comedy directors&#8230; don&#8217;t. (Via Dave Chapman)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/96558506\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Arthur Chu is a self-identified nerd who found a weakness in the design of the legendary US gameshow Jeopardy, and proceeded to become a (somewhat controversial) champion. He&#8217;s just revealed another talent, for the written word &#8211; and for clear insight into the troubling misogyny infecting nerd culture. I was going to make this linky clear of all references to the recent awful events in the US, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/27\/your-princess-is-in-another-castle-misogyny-entitlement-and-nerds.html\">but this one deserves a wider audience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2014\/05\/27\/the-intriguing-science-behind-bruce-lees-one-inch-punch\/\">The science of Bruce Lee&#8217;s one-inch-punch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the latest This American Life, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/526\/is-that-what-i-look-like?act=3\">Molly Ringwald and her 10-year-old daughter watch The Breakfast Club together<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgreene.org\/?p=296\">Chinese bootleg Star Wars comics<\/a> (via Jamie Norrish)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brandonbird.com\/xmans.html\">Artists create works inspired by pages in an 90s X-Men coloring book<\/a>. (via the Alligator)<\/p>\n<p>Gem&#8217;s Wilder Web is always worth a look but this week&#8217;s crop of links is particularly genius. Homemade Disney costumes, Cliff Curtis interviewed, the Modern Maori Quartet doing the Game of Thrones theme, and moar! <a href=\"http:\/\/gemwilder.blogspot.co.nz\/2014\/05\/wilder-web_29.html\">Go and check it out&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, via Pearce, the many delights of <a href=\"http:\/\/liartownusa.tumblr.com\/\">Liartown USA<\/a> (warning, often NSFW!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Burke found this neat description of a more effective way to win arguments than saying &#8220;I can prove you&#8217;re wrong!&#8221; Not suitable for all circumstances, but I&#8217;m adding it to my arsenal. The 25 most underrated movies of the 90s (via Edel) Cyberpunk city made out of Lego Gustave the crocodile has his own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legopunk 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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-linky","tag-fridaylinky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-1CL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247","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=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}