{"id":7405,"date":"2015-11-27T09:43:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T20:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7405"},"modified":"2015-11-26T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T21:59:09","slug":"dystopia-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7405","title":{"rendered":"Dystopia Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via Scott Common: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2015\/10\/ranking-40-dystopias-by-their-livability.html\">ranking dystopias by their livability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>via Ben Sedley: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/articles\/105206\/20151111\/alan-moores-star-wars-episode-pandora-effect.htm\">that time Alan Moore wrote stories for Star Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/stephen-dell-curry-play-horse\">It&#8217;s Steph Curry playing HORSE with his dad!<\/a> (If you don&#8217;t know who Steph Curry is&#8230; he&#8217;s like, in the  movies where an overlooked kid with none of the physical attributes rises to somehow become the champion of the world, he&#8217;s that, but he really exists and is really doing it.) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/view\/543871\/data-mining-reveals-how-smiling-evolved-during-a-century-of-yearbook-photos\/\">How smiling evolved over a century of yearbook photos<\/a>. (I knew people maintained a neutral expression in early photos because the images took time to fix, and neutral faces were easier to hold &#8211; but this article attributes smiling in photos to a marketing campaign from Kodak!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/the-space-doctors-big-idea-einstein-general-relativity\">Einstein&#8217;s complex ideas, compellingly explained using only simple and commonplace words<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More Steph: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/25\/sports\/basketball\/artistry-of-stephen-curry-with-golden-state-warriors.html\">professional ballet dancers analyse his grace on the court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/story.californiasunday.com\/samoan-football-pipeline\">Big, warm-hearted article on the outsize presence of Samoans in American Football.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via David R: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/alien\/37944\/alien-3s-perfect-shot\">the perfect shot in Alien 3<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Via Steve Ellis: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_23358_the-6-ballsiest-moments-in-history-american-espionage.html\">the 6 ballsiest moments in the history of American espionage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2015\/oct\/30\/extreme-haunted-house-masochists-mckamey-manor\">probably the extreme-est of the extreme haunted houses trend<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Scott Common: ranking dystopias by their livability. via Ben Sedley: that time Alan Moore wrote stories for Star Wars. It&#8217;s Steph Curry playing HORSE with his dad! 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