Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-17-2010

[andrewducker]

• 'The girl with the dragon tattoo' has been cast.
  (tags: writing books movies)
• Oxfordshire turns off all of their speed cameras - except two, to check people's actions. Speeding, strangely, goes up...
  (tags: law cars uk speed video)
• UK has worse social mobility record than other developed countries
  (tags: society uk)
• Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
  (tags: photography history usa photo)
• Titanic relatives asking to die horribly in "ironic" circumstances.
  (tags: Titanic)
• German singer on trial for HIV sex.
  (tags: health hiv sex law)
• China Tops Japan as World's No. 2 Economy
  (tags: china economy japan usa business economics)

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

My enthuse for the whole affair is so low that I honestly couldn't even be bothered checking the spelling.

[andrewducker]

And yet you felt compelled to ask about it :-)

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I wondered whether the ridiculous amount of hype surrounding the whole thing had been going on for so long that I thought a film that was still in pre-production had already been and gone in the cinemas. Clearly what I saw pass me by was the Swedish version.

[andrewducker]

Naah, the hype is still all about the books (number 1,2 and 3 on Amazon UK, and all in the top 6 of Amazon US).

The hype about the movies isn't due to peak until the first of the US remakes comes out in December 2011 :->

Oooh, just looked at the cast. Stellan Skarsgård is pretty much perfect. Not so convinced by Daniel Craig though.