Interesting Links for 24-04-2012

[andrewducker]

• Why the Super Mario Movie Sucked
  (tags: nintendo mario movies EpicFail )
• Only 22% of British people are horrifically racist, 25% just a bit racist when it comes to definition of "English"
  (tags: racism english uk society )
• Why is there a dead bird on Tonto's head? Johnny Depp explains
  (tags: johnnydepp movies weird )
• Details on the proposed House Of Lords changes
  (tags: houseoflords uk politics )
• My nightmare about falling, is pretty much like the 4th image here.
  (tags: falling nightmare animated_gif video )
• The cast of Mad Men go bowling. Featuring Wierd Al. Yes. Really.
  (tags: video bowling weird MadMen )
• What publishers do for authors
  (tags: editing authors writing publishing )
• Customer Reviews: Veet for Men Hair Removal Gel (Made me giggle)
  (tags: funny reviews hair men )
• Game of Thrones: How HBO and Showtime make money despite low ratings.
  (tags: gameofthrones HBO tv )
• John Slattery on playing Roger Sterling in the latest episode of Mad Men (S05E06)
  (tags: acting madmen )
• First Asteroid Mining Company launched. Has a few billion behind it.
  (tags: space mining thefuture )
• Facebook’s new moneymaking scheme - hide your posts and then charge you to make them visible again.
  (tags: facebook business )
• The woman who edited Nuts magazine
  (tags: women sex sexuality media uk )
• When I see emails like this, I get a massive rush of anticipatory schadenfreude.
  (tags: schadenfreude email EpicFail internet business )

Comments

Game of Thrones

[thejeopardymaze]

I've yet to watch an episode, but this is good to know. If I ever get around to starting my own production and label company it will have nothing to with the studios, much less networks, complete control, and most sales would be downloads (DVD will be on the way out sooner or later anyways).

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

All in all an effective and reasonably priced product - 3 Stars.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I imagine soon the hair remover will carry a warning "Do not put on knob and bollocks, even of people who disregard safety warnings" :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Maybe soon the entirity of facebook will be hidden and it will just evaporate :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Huh. I can't believe I didn't think of waiting here and waiting for asteriods to come to us... I don't know how plausible it is, but I love living in a world where "asteroid mining company" is in the headlines, after just about giving up on space exploration.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

"Why the Super Mario Movie Sucked"

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.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I'm not overly concerned with the part of that Facebook thing about companies needing to buy into advertising in order to push their own adverts onto facebook users. I'll agree it sucks for individuals setting up pages that aren't adverts, sure - but if you're a business wanting to use FB to advertise for free, then what a surprise - they want to make money from you as you try to use facebook to make money for your own business. That sounds completely fair to me. Saying "Oh but my page won't be visible if I don't pay!" really won't garner any sympathy (for a company) from me, since their adverts in any media, space or form will rarely be visible unless they at some point pay for some part of the advertising!

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

Aww, I was hoping to see Christina Hendricks and Elizabeth Moss bowling. Good video, though.:P

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Oh HBO. The way television ought to be made.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

The 22% and 25% figures on the attitudes to race survey were of English people, not British people.

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.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

I liked the Super Mario Bros movie.

[strangemeetings.livejournal.com]

I actually own the novelisation of the Mario Bros movie. I found it in a charity shop in Fort William about a decade ago for pocket change and, of course, bought it.

It's exactly as you'd expect.