{"id":455,"date":"2006-01-20T16:50:42","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2006-01-20T16:50:42","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T16:50:42","slug":"friday_linkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/01\/20\/friday_linkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t mind me, kids &#8212; I&#8217;m just clearing out a folder marked &#8220;Weird\/Amusing\/Interesting Stuff I&#8217;d Like to Blog About But Probably Won&#8217;t Get Around To.&#8221; Perhaps you&#8217;ll find something here that will strike enough of your fancy to warrant a click-through:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dr3ra\">Lego model of Han Solo in Carbonite<\/a> (to go with the Lego Attack Cruiser I blogged about a while back)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/4596246.stm\">BBC story<\/a> about the 11-year-old girl who gave the planet Pluto its name (she&#8217;s now 87)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dlsgt\"><i>New York Times<\/i> article<\/a> about Japan&#8217;s <i>hikikomori<\/i>, young people who completely withdraw from society and spend years sequestered inside their childhood bedrooms (you may need to register to see this one &#8212; sorry)\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/laconservancy.org\/issues\/issues_list.php4#tail\">latest<\/a> on the future of LA&#8217;s landmark hot-dog stand, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.bigwaste.com\/photos\/ca\/tailothepup\/\">Tail o&#8217; the Pup<\/a> (currently in the path of a proposed gay-and-lesbian retirement center)\n<li>Published editions of all of J. Michael Straczynski&#8217;s <i>Babylon 5<\/i> scripts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babylon5scripts.com\/\">now on sale<\/a> (not a huge B5 fan myself, but these look like good reads, with lots of yummy behind-the-scenes dish&#8230;)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/75neq\">Article<\/a> entitled &#8220;Google Maps Catches WW II Ghost&#8221; (satellite photo of English countryside includes a vintage Avro Lancaster bomber in flight)\n<li>Groovy &#8217;60s-style <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eero-aarnio.com\/8\/Objects\/Ball_Chair.htm\">Ball Chairs<\/a> (just like Number Two&#8217;s in <i>The Prisoner<\/i>, or, for you younger kids, Dr. Evil&#8217;s) are still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eero-aarnio.com\/10\/Where_to_buy.htm\/nocache\/true#USA\">available<\/a> (there&#8217;s a place that sells them in Vegas &#8212; road trip!)\n<li>How <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2133995\/\">Blockbuster Video shot itself in the foot<\/a> by underestimating DVDs\n<li>How to get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2133754\/\">better cappucino at Starbucks<\/a> (keep meaning to try this, but never remember when I&#8217;m there)\n<li>F-14 Tomcats (Maverick and Goose&#8217;s plane in <i>Top Gun<\/i>) <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/86rfj\">quietly retiring<\/a>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/8hpz7\">U-2s are, too<\/a> (retiring, that is&#8230; although I thought they were already gone&#8230; shows you what I know&#8230;)\n<li>Shatner <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/d6dnk\">sells a kidney stone<\/a> for charity (What a guy!)\n<li>Swinging <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.outer-court.com\/files\/motorola\/\">pads of the future<\/a> as envisioned by Motorola in the mid-60s (how come the future as seen in the past was so much cooler than the future we actually got here in the present? For the record, I like the eighth one down, with all the windows&#8230; and the tenth one, also with the windows, and the vinyl records&#8230;)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ephemeranow.com\/\">More retro advertising art<\/a> (mostly cars and trucks, a lot of stuff on the Ford Edsel, some futuristicky houses and space scenes, all nicely done and worthy of hanging on the wall)\n<li>Cool tradition of visiting Poe&#8217;s grave <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/9mcp7\">lives on<\/a>, in spite of lame, disruptive rubberneckers\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally, the piece de resistance::<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cheesy mid-80s <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/7rjwm\">German music video of David Hasselhoff singing &#8220;Hooked on a Feeling&#8221;<\/a> (a.k.a. The Oogga Chugga Song &#8212; thrill to dancing bears, bad blue-screen effects, surrealistic imagery, and facial expressions of laughably self-important intensity!)\n<\/ul>\n<p>And on that note, happy weekend, everyone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t mind me, kids &#8212; I&#8217;m just clearing out a folder marked &#8220;Weird\/Amusing\/Interesting Stuff I&#8217;d Like to Blog About But Probably Won&#8217;t Get Around To.&#8221; Perhaps you&#8217;ll find something here that will strike enough of your fancy to warrant a click-through:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}