Interesting Links for 6-7-2011

[andrewducker]

• Why Did L.A. Noire Take Seven Years to Make? (Enough to put you off ever working in the games industry)
  (tags: games work)
• Cutting down on salt doesn't reduce your chance of dying
  (tags: health salt)
• Conservative MEPs defeat new climate change targets (against instructions too - want to bet if they get punished?)
  (tags: politics conservatives climatechange europe)
• C.S. Lewis reviews Childhood's End (He liked it. I agree.)
  (tags: CSLewis ArthurCClarke review)
• Amazon just bought The Book Depository
  (tags: books amazon uk)
• Google's lack of decent testing on Android makes it unfit to be used in the enterprise
  (tags: google android testing email EpicFail)
• A collection of awful sci-fi book covers
  (tags: scifi art books)
• Chinese coal blamed for global warming er... cooling
  (tags: china globalwarming environment coal)

Comments

[doubtingmichael.livejournal.com]

My experience was usually the opposite - you got some SF book with a racy looking cover, and then the contents were much tamer. Of course, I was looking for SF/fantasy, not porn.

I think the publishers liked to have salacious covers to draw people's attention on the shelves, and maybe to draw in people who were after some porn. But it often wasn't truth in advertising.