{"id":692,"date":"2007-12-21T00:08:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T00:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2007-12-21T00:08:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T00:08:48","slug":"friday-linky-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Friday Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention. This is your Friday Linky.<br \/>\nWarren Ellis has been recommending <a href=http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/theinferior4\/>the inferior 4+1<\/a> weblog for a while &#8211; a collective LJ by a bunch of SF novelists. He particularly recommended this piece, and I recommend it too. Lucius Shepherd shares a true story about a man who fights a monkey. And then doesn&#8217;t learn his lesson. <a href=http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/theinferior4\/223621.html>Gordon was given a pair of boxing gloves and ushered into the pit. He was in good spirits. A few minutes later, a half-grown chimp was shoved through a door in the pit wall&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nMy favourite thing of the week was revealed to me on <a href=http:\/\/www.tallpoppy.org\/blogorrhoea\/2007\/12\/then-again-maybe-not-so-much.html>Blogorrhoea<\/a>. It is called <a href=http:\/\/ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com\/>speak you&#8217;re branes<\/a>. It is a lovingly-collected assembly of all the comments on the BBC&#8217;s Have Your Say system that might induce you to bang your head against the wall. All gathered in one place, the wall-denting absurdities pile up so rapidly that it almost makes a danceable rhythm out of your head knocking into the plaster. Wonderful. This is now the world.<br \/>\nMy *other* favourite thing of the week came from Svend. It is <a href=http:\/\/www.squareamerica.com\/>Square America<\/a>, found vintage photos gathered into great categories. This one opens the &#8220;Photo Booth&#8221; category:<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.squareamerica.com\/pb1.htm><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.squareamerica.com\/images\/pc8.jpg?w=660\"><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s great, this site, and will chew up your time in a very pleasant way.<br \/>\nI commend to you <a href=http:\/\/thelongdarkteatimeofthesoul.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/15\/make-tea-not-wars-guide-to-life-etc\/>Make Tea Not War&#8217;s guide to life<\/a>. &#8220;19. If you deride people who are trying to do something that is kind or generous or hospitable you are a twat.&#8221;<br \/>\nIf you like escaping from rooms, <a href=http:\/\/d3vo.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/point-and-click-gaming.html#links>d3vo<\/a> supplies a good link. <a href=http:\/\/gamesuy.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/top-10-point-and-click-games.html>Escape from many rooms here.<\/a><br \/>\nObligatory Friday linky geekness: Mr Jonny Nexus <a href=http:\/\/jonnynexus.livejournal.com\/329974.html>drew attention<\/a> to a site called <a href=http:\/\/www.secrethistoryofstarwars.com\/index.html>The Secret History of Star Wars<\/a>, which is an exhaustively researched piece on the how we ended up with the cinematic pieces we did and what happened along the way. It is a 600-page book worth of stuff. I&#8217;ve only just barely skimmed it, but it does mention how in early drafts Lucas called the dark side of the force &#8220;the bogan&#8221;, which <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bogan>explains to Aussies and Kiwis<\/a> why Darth Vader always wore black. Presumably he also listened to AC\/DC and drove a Holden.<br \/>\nAlso: <a href=http:\/\/www.achewood.com\/index.php?date=12192007>coincidental Achewood<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis was your linky. It is Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention. This is your Friday Linky. Warren Ellis has been recommending the inferior 4+1 weblog for a while &#8211; a collective LJ by a bunch of SF novelists. He particularly recommended this piece, and I recommend it too. Lucius Shepherd shares a true story about a man who fights a monkey. 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