{"id":24973,"date":"2015-07-03T05:08:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T10:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=24973"},"modified":"2015-07-04T13:35:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T18:35:55","slug":"the-link-dump-in-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=24973","title":{"rendered":"The Link Dump in Yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/127692364\">The Visit<\/a> &#8211; Bittersweet animated short about &#8220;an old woman, who, to the horror of her son, is cooking up a meal in the middle of the night for her long-deceased friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2015\/05\/15\/How-to-Tell-if-Youre-Dead\/\">How to Tell if You&#8217;re Dead<\/a> &#8211; Discussion of various methods used in the past to determine whether someone was dead or just really sleepy.  The use of nipple clamps is a new one on me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=es0sOE_d1Ik\">Christopher Lee Does the Timewarp<\/a> &#8211; This short clip of Lee reciting the &#8220;jump to the left&#8221; bit needs to be a ringtone, stat. <i>(Hat tip to Pixel Pixie)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/historys-six-most-hideous-serial-killing-families-1705168689\">The Six Most Terrifying Serial Killer Families in History<\/a> &#8211; A peculiar subject for a roundup, but I&#8217;ll allow it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/music-news\/11126604\/Choral-music-not-heard-since-era-of-Henry-VIII-has-been-played-for-first-time-in-500-years.html\">The Spy&#8217;s Choirbook<\/a> &#8211; A manuscript of choral music given to Henry VIII has been played and performed live for the first time in 500 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/05\/19\/cordial-minuet.html\">Cordial Minuet<\/a> &#8211; Description of a very odd online game that could double as the plot for a horror movie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Geek-Knits-Projects-Fanatics-Knitting\/dp\/125005138X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1433423042&#038;sr=1-1\" rel=\"nofollow\">Geek Knits<\/a> &#8211; You might dismiss this book as too science-fictiony, but then you would miss the stuffed Bunnicula pattern and the answer to the question, &#8220;What would Molly Weasley knit for Arthur?&#8221;  The author talks about the book <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2015\/06\/04\/the-big-idea-joan-of-dark\/\">here<\/a>, and has also written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Knits-Nerds-Projects-Science-Fiction\/dp\/1449407919\/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;refRID=1B6X2YP8EA8H25G3CKDJ\" rel=\"nofollow\">Knits for Nerds<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Knockdown-Knits-Projects-Roller-Derby\/dp\/1620458268\/ref=sr_1_3_twi_2_pap?s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1433423179&#038;sr=1-3\" rel=\"nofollow\">Knockdown Knits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SqNdbHHWtBc\">THRESHER<\/a> &#8211; Short horror film created as an entry for the &#8220;House of Horrors&#8221; competition presided over by Guillermo del Toro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/comics.lesmcclaine.com\/32exposures\/index.htm\">32 Exposures<\/a> &#8211; Les McClaine, who draws the Jonny Crossbones comic, did this short Lovecraft-esque piece.  I like the name of the bar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/tinplatestudios\">Tinplate Studios<\/a> &#8211; Neat Etsy shop full of &#8220;unnatural science&#8221; props like Feejee Mermaids and preserved krakens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Visit &#8211; Bittersweet animated short about &#8220;an old woman, who, to the horror of her son, is cooking up a meal in the middle of the night for her long-deceased friends.&#8221; How to Tell if You&#8217;re Dead &#8211; Discussion of various methods used in the past to determine whether someone was dead or just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-dump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24973"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25215,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973\/revisions\/25215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}