{"id":975,"date":"2008-12-19T07:50:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T07:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2008-12-19T07:50:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T07:50:24","slug":"christmas-hamper-of-linkygeddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Hamper of Linkygeddon"},"content":{"rendered":"

SANTA HE SAY YOU SHALL HAVE ALL THE LINKY YOU NEED THIS CHRISTMAS, PUNY HUMAN
\nBEHOLD:
\nTigers and leopards like to play with pumpkins. Who knew?<\/a>
\nThe Anomalies<\/a> make amazing hip-hop recaps of 80s sci-fi action films Predator<\/a> and Robocop<\/a>!
\nThe great Tom Lehrer on video<\/a>
\nThe most inspirational short you will ever see<\/a>
\nAndy Kaufman: Live From Hollywood<\/a> – the comedy channel doco about Andy Kaufman’s stint as a wrestling heel, chopped up into YouTube-friendly pieces. I watched it with my hands over my face. Incredible. (Also: Robin Williams doing something you’ve never seen anywhere else – perfectly deadpan comedy.) (Bonus: That Letterman show incident, uncensored<\/a>. Has Jerry Lawler ever broken kayfabe on the record and admitted it was all a big work with Kaufman? Apart from in the Carrey movie of course?
\nBully watches and blogs Love Actually in realtime as the story counts down to Christmas<\/a>. (Warning: Keira Knightley appreciation zone.) (Second warning: Richard Curtis adored here.) (Still fun though.)
\nHow it should have ended<\/a> – some dudes create alternative endings for films that ended in a way that they didn’t like.
\nI’m embedding this one because I like it lots: Playing For Change<\/a> gets musicians around the world to contribute to a brilliant rendition of Stand By Me.
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\nAlso this one: Derren Brown does my all-time favourite Psyc experiment. A few years ago this was replicated at my university, and weirdly enough, older Maori people noticed significantly more than other ages\/ethnicities.
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\nVirtual sitting in a den watching old television<\/a>. You need to adjust the aerials to get a good picture. It is called Betamaxmas, which is the winningest name of Christmas.
\nThis will make sense to anyone who lamented Forry’s passing, and probably no-one else: dude makes boxes for imagined lines of Aurora Model Kits, like modern monsters and Lovecraft<\/a>. And he sells them, shrinkwrapped, so you can have your model box sitting on your shelf unopened with an imaginary product inside.
\nThe worst Christmas music ever created!<\/a>
\nSome serious things:
\nNoam Chomsky explains why broadcast media fails in 3 minutes<\/a>
\nClive Thompson at Wired explains why we need more torture in our videogames<\/a>
\nAnd finally: the first Mattel officially licensed Barbie in which Barbie is in the process of having her eyes plucked out of her face and devoured.<\/a>
\n(There. That should keep you busy for a while.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SANTA HE SAY YOU SHALL HAVE ALL THE LINKY YOU NEED THIS CHRISTMAS, PUNY HUMAN BEHOLD: Tigers and leopards like to play with pumpkins. Who knew? The Anomalies make amazing hip-hop recaps of 80s sci-fi action films Predator and Robocop! The great Tom Lehrer on video The most inspirational short you will ever see Andy … Continue reading Christmas Hamper of Linkygeddon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_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":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-linky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-fJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}