{"id":6354,"date":"2014-08-15T00:14:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T12:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2014-08-15T00:14:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T12:14:05","slug":"mork-and-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6354","title":{"rendered":"Mork and Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(I&#8217;ve basically read none of the things I&#8217;m linking this week, only skimmed them. Far too much going on in the world right now. Many of these links are via the marvellous <a href=\"http:\/\/nextdraft.com\/\">Nextdraft<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.longreads.com\/2014\/08\/11\/robin-williams-1951-2014\/\">Longreads has pulled out from their archive some long pieces on Robin Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This mash-up of the Muppets (doing Danny Boy) and the Beastie Boys is one minute of perfection.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kq-VNCGBDRU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Journalism: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/youre-16-youre-a-pedophile-you-dont-want-to-hurt-anyone-what-do-you-do-now-e11ce4b88bdb\">You&#8217;re a teenager and you&#8217;re a pedophile. You don&#8217;t want to hurt anyone. What do you do?<\/a> &#8211; Plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2014\/08\/the-pedophiles-who-didnt-want-to-hurt-children\">an interview with the writer of that piece.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2014\/07\/replication_controversy_in_psychology_bullying_file_drawer_effect_blog_posts.html\">More on the methodological knife fight going down in my academic field, social psyc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Weirdly effective: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K1vXEDEAYg0\">the opening credits of Twin Peaks, in 8-bit form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/a_video_montage_of_every_alfred_hitchcock_cameo\">Every Hitchcock cameo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2014\/08\/the-wonder-years-an-oral-history-1.html\">The Wonder Years: An Oral History<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/08\/11\/338850091\/for-a-more-ordered-life-organize-like-a-chef\">Organize your life: be like a chef<\/a>. (Sound right, Gator?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/blogs\/the_grapevine\/2014\/08\/_iftheygunnedmedown_shows_how_black_people_are_portrayed_in_mainstream_media.html\">#iftheygunnedmedown<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/what-makes-nigel-richards-the-best-scrabble-player-on-earth\/\">The New Zealander who is the best Scrabble player on Earth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/pdp1_spacewar\">Spacewar! &#8211; a computer game from 1962<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The assumption is that history is linear \u2013 from ignorance to enlightenment. It\u2019s true that we\u2019re closer to racial justice than we were, say, a century ago, but here\u2019s the paradox: while we might be more diverse, more tolerant and more committed to racial justice than our ancestors, we\u2019re committed to an ideology that makes racial justice impossible \u2013 colorblindness.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/mauistreet.blogspot.co.nz\/2014\/08\/the-country-that-white-supremacy-made.html\">Morgan Godfery on the insidious racism built into NZ culture.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How high-quality action movies are made now &#8211; this sequence, lasting all of two seconds, is a blur of cool people doing stuff when first seen. <a href=\"http:\/\/karenhealey.tumblr.com\/post\/94629806289\/theheirsofdurin-hewastheirfriend-ok-so-i\">But when inspected closely<\/a>, as you do in this age of blu-ray and animated gif, you can see exactly what is going on &#8211; and what is revealed is way way cooler than you ever guessed. This is storytelling happening in such density that you can only pick up on it through detailed study (or by following this link). Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>And finally (again via Dangerous Minds): the ambient sound of a Star Wars X-Wing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_xzn7RQyEBE\">for 12 hours<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I&#8217;ve basically read none of the things I&#8217;m linking this week, only skimmed them. Far too much going on in the world right now. Many of these links are via the marvellous Nextdraft.) Longreads has pulled out from their archive some long pieces on Robin Williams. This mash-up of the Muppets (doing Danny Boy) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mork and 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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[11],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-6354","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-1Eu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354","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=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6356,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}