{"id":3643,"date":"2009-07-03T07:18:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T11:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2011-01-18T21:05:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T01:05:19","slug":"link-dump-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3643","title":{"rendered":"For Crying Out Loud, Not Another Link Dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aren&#8217;t you guys <em>tired<\/em> of these things yet?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrparallel.wordpress.com\/\">Bad News from the Past<\/a> &#8211; A blog that reproduces late 19th\/early 20th century bad news reports from various American newspapers, with a bit of commentary at the end.  I like that hit-and-run drivers used to be called &#8220;vampire autos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PWhxCB0ndJE\">Death Metal Parrot<\/a> &#8211; (It&#8217;s actually a cockatoo.)  This reminds me a lot of a guy I dated once.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=5053467\">Cemetery Cat Designs<\/a> &#8211; Etsy seller specializes in unusual jewelry, including some which incorporate nazars (evil eye protection).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmylife.com\/\">FMyLife<\/a> &#8211; Schadenfreude, now in handy list format.  (<i>(hat tip to Empress Pam)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26594226@N04\/3594461871\/in\/pool-93628034@N00\">Biological Clock Embroidery<\/a> &#8211; From the Flickr craft pool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lucylou.livejournal.com\/569783.html\">Zombie Attack Poster<\/a> &#8211; This was drawn as a special for Museum of Comic and Cartoon Arts Festival, but the artist is going to make prints available.  It has a whimsical, &#8220;Where&#8217;s Waldo&#8221; feel to it that appeals to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/snotboogie\/sets\/72157619459505191\/\">Back to the Future Wedding Cake<\/a> &#8211; Amazing cake made to look like the town square in <i>Back to the Future<\/i>.  I&#8217;d love to see a haunted version of this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/harry-clarke-illustrations-for-e-poe.html\">Harry Clarke Illustrations<\/a> &#8211; Scans from a 1923 Edgar Allen Poe collection done by Harry Clarke.  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