{"id":7550,"date":"2016-03-11T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T20:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2016-03-10T23:25:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T10:25:54","slug":"bestselling-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7550","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does it take to be a bestselling author? Three dollars and five minutes.<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes I’m a sucker for this story: an ode to promposals<\/a>. Teens making a big deal of asking someone out to prom, partly trying to go viral, partly just for the joy of feels. (Yes of course this is a rose-tinted view of high school life which is still as full of misery as it ever was; that’s the whole point. I heart it.)<\/p>\n

Via my aunt Margaret – geek vs. nerd infographic<\/a>, plotting words associated with geek vs those associated with nerd, across 2.6 million tweets.<\/p>\n

Via d3vo, D&D Strength in real-world terms<\/a><\/p>\n

Also via d3vo, apparently this is a thing: head tingles from gently brushing microphones mounted in ears<\/a><\/p>\n

I listen to Harmontown and I didn’t know this existed. It even says “episode 2”. It’s basically an episode of Harmontown but it’s filmed and the guest is Ernest Hemingway plucked out of history.<\/a> Based on this description you will either have already clicked the link, or you can move on with a clear conscience.<\/p>\n

David Roberts gives a smart, sympathetic reading on why so many people are voting for Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hey you guys you know how Obama did a foreign policy thing that was “be like minimally civil to Iran” not “threaten to blow Iran into a smoking crater” and the entire Republican political world went wiiiild? Turns out things are going beautifully<\/a>. Thanks Obama.<\/p>\n

How Robert Louis Stevenson’s reputation was shipwrecked by his inner circle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Via Allen Varney: “Cyclops is a programming language written in Linear A, a forgotten\/undeciphered script used 3500-4500 years ago on the Greek island of Minos<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

And finally, via Jason Morningstar, a 1975 FAA report on the Anthropometry of Stewardesses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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