Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-24-2009

[andrewducker]

• Fox hat ad inspires comedy event
  They're building a comedy festival around one of my favourite ads! And I had no idea it was Rich Hall in the ad!
  (tags: advertising comedy scotland)
• First amateur HD Video from the edge of space
  Attach a HD video camera to a balloon. Send it right to the edge of the atmosphere. And back again, when the baloon pops!
  (tags: space video balloon)
• If You Want to Catch a Liar, Make Him Draw
  Able to spot 80% of the truth-tellers and 87% of the liars by looking at their drawings of a scene.
  (tags: psychology lying)
• British Fantasy Society admits lazy sexism over male-only horror book.
  And well done to them for not trying to bluster their way past it.
  (tags: scifi writing feminism sexism fantasy)

Comments

[woodpijn.livejournal.com]

AFAIK they were interviews, conducted specifically for the anthology, rather than existing stories. If they were stories I'd be saying things like "the stories should be judged on their merit by an editor who doesn't know who wrote them, and the best stories should go in, whether they were written by men, women or spambots."

I assume the subjects for the interviews were chosen on the basis of people the compiler thought it'd be interesting to interview. I asked in my comment above whether the problem was that they were chosen according to the individual tastes of the compiler.