{"id":765,"date":"2008-03-28T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T11:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2008-03-28T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T11:19:43","slug":"friday-linky-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Friday Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Home sick with a cold today, which gives me a chance to provide your Friday Linky:
\nStart with the Seven Fortean wonders of the world<\/a> – I hadn’t heard of Oak Island and its Money Pit<\/a>, or the Piri Reis map<\/a>.
\nI’ve already mentioned Sixteen Candles<\/em> once this year<\/a> – how improbable is mentioning it a second time? NPR has a feature on Long Duk Dong<\/a>, the cringe-inducing Asian character from that film. It interviews actor Gedde Watanabe, and also features a one-page strip by Adrian Tomine<\/a> about being an Asian American in high school when “the Donger” was famous.
\nIn other comic-related linky, Newsarama has the special Scott Pilgrim comic released for Free Comic Book Day<\/a> – if you don’t know Scott Pilgrim, it’s a super-fun oddity featuring young love, rock and roll, and cute dimension-hopping rollerskate couriers. It is the hipster book of the moment, and worth checking out. (Wellington Public Library has ’em, local readers!)
\nAnd Cracked has an article on when Princess Di joined a superhero team<\/a> in an infamous killed storyline for X-Men spin-off X-Statix by Brit stirrer Peter Milligan and artist Mike Allred. Features the rarely-seen cover art that was solicited before the Windsors said, um, no, and the story was altered. See it to believe it.
\nStar Wars fans, check out the space fight from Return of the Jedi<\/a> with all the non-space fight bits edited out – just nine minutes of pure space battle adrenaline (and not coincidentally the best sequence in Return of the Jedi).
\nEco-stuff: Malc pointed me at this BBC report on the fate of plastics in our ecology<\/a> – drifting in the sea currents so it all ends up on this remote island of ‘Midway’. If you’re still in doubt over whether we need to kick our plastic bag habit, this will tip you over. The ocean-crossing robot should become some kind of mascot… Also, the AVClub discusses misguided enviro-friendly entertainments<\/a> such as Captain Planet, Ferngully, and Melissa Etheridge. (Hang on…)
\nAnd finally:Einstein’s theory of relativity in words of four letters or less<\/a>. Worth your time (so to speak). Not kidding about the four-letter limit, either – they refer to Isaac Newton as “Izzy” throughout…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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