{"id":6376,"date":"2014-09-12T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2014-09-11T22:25:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T10:25:54","slug":"pour-vous-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6376","title":{"rendered":"Pour Vous Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arnorien\/status\/507597974361620480\">The actual rules for &#8220;tu&#8221; and &#8220;vous&#8221; in French<\/a>. Lovely. (via @adzebill)<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2014\/09\/why-do-people-believe-in-ghosts\/379072\/?single_page=true\">Why do people believe in ghosts?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luc Besson&#8217;s &#8220;Lucy&#8221; inspired much derision due to a (very dumb) &#8220;10% of the brain&#8221; thing. <a href=\"http:\/\/annakleinwrites.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/11\/the-film-lucy-and-the-inhumanity-of-complete-knowledge\/\">Anna K recasts this as metaphor for a Lovecraft-style expanded perception, and finds much to admire<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t seen the film but this is the first review of it that has remotely made it sound appealing to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/ikea-style-assembly-instructions-for-creating-iconic-movie-monsters-by-ed-harrington\/\">IKEA instructions for movie monsters<\/a> (via Tof)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/1689260\/pearl-jam-covered-let-it-go-at-the-request-of-eddie-vedders-daughter\/news\/\">Pearl Jam covered (a few lines of) &#8220;Let It Go&#8221;<\/a>, the song from Disney juggernaut Frozen, by request of Vedder&#8217;s 5yo daughter. (via Susan H)<\/p>\n<p>What it would be like dating the Disney princes:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ct-CdyT4HkM?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Insightful essay on the BBC News site about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/special\/2014\/newsspec_8699\/index.html\">how Scotland got to the point that a vote for independence is gaining popular support<\/a> &#8211; this sure wasn&#8217;t always the case! (Here&#8217;s a hint as to why: Thatcher + austerity.) It&#8217;s one of those awful &#8220;long-scrolling multimedia&#8221; things that news organisations think are very clever (because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/projects\/2012\/snow-fall\/\">Snow Fall<\/a> won the pulitzer I guess) but that already look massively dated; if you can put up with that, this is a great read. (Via Andrew Watters)<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/sep\/09\/yes-vote-in-scotland-most-dangerous-thing-of-all-hope\">Monbiot&#8217;s latest column on the Scottish Independence Referendum<\/a> is probably the single most optimistic thing I&#8217;ve ever seen him write: Scottish independence will spark a new progressive movement that will transform (what&#8217;s left of) the UK! I&#8217;ll believe it when I see it, but he is right that Scottish independence will be hugely influential outside of their borders.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Oxbrow has made me aware that Harvey Keitel is reprising his Pulp Fiction character in a series of ads for an insurance company. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/mediamonkeyblog\/2014\/aug\/29\/harvey-keitel-ad-campaign-pulp-fiction\">The video is region-locked<\/a>, so I can&#8217;t watch it, and from Craig&#8217;s description I suspect that&#8217;s probably just as well.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, the Duck Tales theme song with real ducks:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/txj6ROnIUIo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actual rules for &#8220;tu&#8221; and &#8220;vous&#8221; in French. Lovely. (via @adzebill) The Atlantic: Why do people believe in ghosts? Luc Besson&#8217;s &#8220;Lucy&#8221; inspired much derision due to a (very dumb) &#8220;10% of the brain&#8221; thing. Anna K recasts this as metaphor for a Lovecraft-style expanded perception, and finds much to admire. I haven&#8217;t seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6376\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pour Vous 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-6376","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-1EQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376","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=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6384,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions\/6384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}