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andrewducker) wrote2012-04-24 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-04-24 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 24-04-2012
- Why the Super Mario Movie Sucked
- Only 22% of British people are horrifically racist, 25% just a bit racist when it comes to definition of "English"
- Why is there a dead bird on Tonto's head? Johnny Depp explains
- Details on the proposed House Of Lords changes
- My nightmare about falling, is pretty much like the 4th image here.
- The cast of Mad Men go bowling. Featuring Wierd Al. Yes. Really.
- What publishers do for authors
- Customer Reviews: Veet for Men Hair Removal Gel (Made me giggle)
- Game of Thrones: How HBO and Showtime make money despite low ratings.
- John Slattery on playing Roger Sterling in the latest episode of Mad Men (S05E06)
- First Asteroid Mining Company launched. Has a few billion behind it.
- Facebook’s new moneymaking scheme - hide your posts and then charge you to make them visible again.
- The woman who edited Nuts magazine
- When I see emails like this, I get a massive rush of anticipatory schadenfreude.
Game of Thrones
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Lots of stuff out there to go and get and bring back.
Which in turn triggers lots of demand for R&D and infrastructure. Also, opportunities for piggy-backing science onto commerical ventures– I’d be willing to bet a small that asteroid miners find out more about asteroid in a decade than the whole of science has found out in 10,000 years.
I’m also interested in what having access to space-borne rare materials does to geo-politics. Probably puts a ceiling price on the economic blackmail and reduces the incentives for colonialism.
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If it's even slightly economic then that at least gives us a reason to start building a space elevator :->
(Which will also require all sorts of future-o-tech.)
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Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!
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In fact, apparently they sucked just the right amount: more than enough that no-one actually LIKED them, but not quite enough they got a cult following who liked them "ironically" for being the worst movie ever made. Or at any rate, I don't know if that's true, but I'd literally forgotten anyone even tried to make a mario movie :)
Which is a shame, because I agree it was PROBABLY going to be a disaster, but a Mario that had the cheery-but-scary vibe of the game could be quite a good story if someone with a clear creative vision got to make it up.
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By all means charge them for the former, but the latter feels wrong to me.
Of course, if FB actually charged people for their pages in the first place this wouldn't be an issue.
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I'd be interested in statistics, if any exist, on what percentage of internet users see adverts generally and what percentage doesn't (through adblock etc, although obviously some kinds of advert can't be blocked).
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(as of 2009: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/10/comScore_and_Starcom_USA_Release_Updated_Natural_Born_Clickers_Study_Showing_50_Percent_Drop_in_Number_of_U.S._Internet_Users_Who_Click_on_Display_Ads)
Possibly even worse by now :->
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Possibly the lack of people clicking is due to ads being more intrusive and annoying! Oh look, I want to read a news article and an ad expanded to take up the whole page, possibly immediately playing video and sound! Guess which ad I will deliberately avoid clicking on even if it interests me!
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I don't know if it would help with sales, but at least people would be exposed to the amazing hypnotic power of larger ads.
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http://www.mikeonads.com/2007/03/01/punch-the-monkey/
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Another example would be the Pan-Am moonshuttle in 2001.
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I'm not convinced that "Make episodes, sell them individually online" would be successful, but I'd be happy to see someone try it.
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And it seems a bit strong to say that identifying nationality with ethnicity is necessarily racist. I mean, even Sunny Hundal doesn't do this in the article, and he's usually 100% politically correct loon. It's not the definition I use*, but I wouldn't think ill of anyone who did.
* For what it's worth, I'd say someone who was born and brought up in England and whose four grandparents and two parents were all born and brought up in England, regardless of skin colour, could justifiably claim to be English. Someone who doesn't meet one or more of those criteria would be rather less English. My parents and grandparents were all born and brought up in England but I was born and brought up in Wales. I certainly consider myself less English than I would do if I was born and brought up in England, and less Welsh than if my parents and grandparents were born and brought up in Wales.
I'd also say that someone is also less English if they claim some other nationality and / or support another nation's sports team.
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I'm with you when it comes to definitions, although not quite as strict. I agree that being raised in England, and feeling that you're intrinsically a part of it (and vice versa) is the biggest thing, and having parents/grandparents who also felt that way is going to have a big influence on that. So I was born in England, both my parents were born in England, but because they were both the children of immigrants there was (and is) a feeling of separation, of knowing that I came here. Once there are no living members of the family your whole life who weren't born here, I suspect that feeling is quite different.
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“traits, background, allegiance, or association”
How is that racist?
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My favourite weird one here, which I've probably mentioned before, is how Sikhs and Jews are categorised as ethnic groups on the basis of religion. As such, presumably anyone who converts to either religion or who was born into it and later rejects it suddenly becomes a different ethnicity to what they were before.
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And of course positive discrimination is racist.
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It's exactly as you'd expect.
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