{"id":761,"date":"2006-11-27T16:56:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T16:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=761"},"modified":"2006-11-27T16:56:38","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T16:56:38","slug":"random_linkage_in_the_face_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/27\/random_linkage_in_the_face_of\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Linkage in the Face of the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few things that have been amusing me as I&#8217;ve waited for this afternoon&#8217;s forecasted snow to arrive:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zombieportraits.com\/\">Zombie Portraits.com<\/a> is exactly what it sounds like: you submit a photograph of yourself to the artist and receive back a painting of how you&#8217;ll look look when the cosmic rays\/mutagenic virus\/evil magic turn you into a flesh-eating zombie. I&#8217;d like a picture of me as a zombie, but not so badly as to justify the $80 fee. A man&#8217;s got to have his priorities, after all, and 80 bucks could buy me a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/7gtds\">these<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jwhilde\/sets\/72157594363814399\/\">Photos of the Telecalculograph<\/a>, a pretty nifty PC case-mod done in the &#8220;steampunk&#8221; style. (For those not in the know, steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that takes place in Victorian England or similar settings. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steampunk\">here<\/a>.)\n<li>People of <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y3nqc7\">the Jedi faith try to get UN recognition<\/a>. (There was a time when I used to answer &#8220;Jedi&#8221; if people asked my religion, but that was just a smart-alecky response to a question I didn&#8217;t want to answer. These guys take it far more seriously than I ever did.)\n<li>More portraits, this time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lafterhall.com\/filmnoir.html\">beautiful photographs<\/a> done in the atmospheric, black-and-white style of film-noir movies. When I finally get a book published, I want this guy to shoot my dustjacket image.\n<li>This one&#8217;s long out of date, but still funny: Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s Triumph the Insult Comic Dog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starterupsteve.com\/video\/Conan-Triumph-Star-Wars.html\">goes after <i>Star Wars<\/i> fans<\/a> as they wait in line for Ep III.\n<li>Somebody&#8217;s building a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bendshire.com\/\">housing development modeled after Tolkien&#8217;s Shire<\/a>, or at least the vision of it which appeared in Peter Jackson&#8217;s movies. I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about this&#8230; it would be the ultimate in geek bragging rights, I suppose. &#8220;Hey, look, I live in a hobbit hole!&#8221; But ultimately, it just seems a little too contrived to be desirable, a gimmick like that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/dossier\/misc\/simpsons\/\">Simpsons house<\/a> they built in Nevada a few years ago.\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echelonrana.com\/viking.html\">Viking kittens<\/a>! Which is exactly what it sounds like&#8230; music-video animation of sea-borne pillaging felines in horned Nordic helmets, brought to us by the same guy who did those horrific (and thankfully shortlived) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cG042nkReBA\">Quizno&#8217;s ads<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p>And on that note, I&#8217;m heading out into the storm, bound for home. Hopefully my taun-taun won&#8217;t give out on me and force me to crawl inside its stinky ol&#8217; carcass for warmth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few things that have been amusing me as I&#8217;ve waited for this afternoon&#8217;s forecasted snow to arrive:<\/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-761","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\/761","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=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}