{"id":6613,"date":"2015-01-02T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2015-01-01T22:06:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T09:06:57","slug":"one-star-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6613","title":{"rendered":"One Star Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Pearce, this guy only gives one-star reviews on Amazon, and he writes them as poetry. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/pdp\/profile\/AH62BQTCMR3BR\/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp\">And they&#8217;re awful<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via Grant &amp; Lorin, an expert skewering of those &#8220;cosmic&#8221; science docos:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NFTaiWInZ44?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Re: last week&#8217;s linky: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2014\/12\/21\/mad-magazines-jack-davis-not-retiring-after-all\/\">maybe Jack Davis isn&#8217;t retiring after all?<\/a> Reports differ. He&#8217;s 90, he&#8217;s allowed to change his mind!<\/p>\n<p>I think I might have linked to this before, but anyway: download heaps of pulp magazines from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulpmags.org\/\">Pulp Magazine Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend Jen is doing interesting freelance indy journalism on the Guardian-supported Contributoria platform. People put up article proposals, and anyone can sign up with a free membership to indicate support for any articles they like. It&#8217;s a fascinating model for getting new voices and new stories out there in a sustainable way &#8211; well worth looking into. Do sign up and have a look around &#8211; to start with, check out Jen&#8217;s latest proposal (which has been fully backed so she&#8217;s working on it now) here: <a href=https:\/\/www.contributoria.com\/issue\/2015-02\/5481b80034afaf8b6f000122\/proposal>The Road to Iguala: The search for 43 students missing in Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bat-bean-beam.blogspot.co.nz\/2014\/12\/of-gluten-trouble-and-search-for.html\">A year of Listener covers<\/a>. Not pretty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b04knthd\">Pratchett &#038; Gaiman&#8217;s Good Omens &#8211; BBC radio adaptation with stellar cast<\/a>. Free to listen around the world for another month or so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2014\/12\/26\/incredible-silver-surfer-cosplay\/>Amazing amazing cosplay.<\/a> Look at this even if you hate cosplay, it&#8217;s wild.<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/listen_to_john_cages_433_on_auto_tune>John Cage&#8217;s 4&#8217;33&#8221;, autotuned<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/business\/currency\/airlines-want-you-to-suffer\">Why airlines want to make you suffer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, also via Pearce: <a href=\"http:\/\/theconcourse.deadspin.com\/what-horrible-things-did-we-do-to-our-penises-last-year-1673944688\/+laceydonohue\">penis injuries from 2014<\/a>, as recorded in the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission&#8217;s database of emergency room visits. Take care out there everyone.<\/p>\n<p>(Friday Linky&#8217;s gonna take a break for a few weeks I reckon. Holiday time!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Pearce, this guy only gives one-star reviews on Amazon, and he writes them as poetry. And they&#8217;re awful. Via Grant &amp; Lorin, an expert skewering of those &#8220;cosmic&#8221; science docos: Re: last week&#8217;s linky: maybe Jack Davis isn&#8217;t retiring after all? Reports differ. He&#8217;s 90, he&#8217;s allowed to change his mind! I think I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Star 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_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-6613","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-1IF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613","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=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}