{"id":1743,"date":"2012-02-12T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2012-02-12T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:59:15","slug":"weekly-link-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/12\/weekly-link-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly link round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sharing a lot of posts, articles, etc. that I find interesting, fun, and\/or important on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/megancrewe\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/megancrewe.tumblr.com\/\">Tumblr<\/a> recently, so I figured it&#8217;d be worth starting a weekly link round-up for the blog readers who don&#8217;t follow me those places or who missed them!  The best of this week:<\/p>\n<p>-Diana Peterfreund on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianapeterfreund.com\/internet-kerfuffles-and-follow-up-with-giveaway\/\">the tendency of the internet to get outraged by the bad but not support the good<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-A BBC documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5883291\/putting-a-face-to-internet-trolls\">tracks down and confronts internet trolls<\/a> (article includes a video clip).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2012\/01\/30\/lego-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-minifigs-images\/\">Lego collection<\/a> revealed.<\/p>\n<p>-A whole bunch of excellent authors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=WjpR0Re1jDU\">explain why freedom of speech is important<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-Various <a href=\"http:\/\/herocomplex.latimes.com\/2012\/02\/09\/after-dark-knight-could-arkham-city-work-as-a-movie\/\">re-imaginings of the Batman movies if done by famous directors<\/a>.  The ones I&#8217;d most want to see: Wes Anderson and Ang Lee.<\/p>\n<p>-Hilariously cute video in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=t5jw3T3Jy70\">Kristen Bell freaks out (excitedly) over a sloth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-An <a href=\"http:\/\/thingswithwings.dreamwidth.org\/145564.html\">examination of the focus on &#8220;manpain&#8221; in popular media, and why it&#8217;s problematic<\/a>, including a fanvid as a powerful illustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sharing a lot of posts, articles, etc. that I find interesting, fun, and\/or important on Twitter and Tumblr recently, so I figured it&#8217;d be worth starting a weekly link round-up for the blog readers who don&#8217;t follow me &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/12\/weekly-link-round-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}