- Stephen at PRBlogger has put up a big post warning PR people not to spam bloggers… I have to be honest, Stephen has done his utmost to make this (limited) situation right and I can’t thank him enough. If his post gets the attention of people in the PR industry that’ll be a really good start.
- Just watched the 1936 film ‘Things to Come’ based on HG Well’s book Wow. That was extraordinary. A celebratory song for science and progress that contains some of the most extraordinary and convincing special effects I’ve ever seen. I’m not kidding. Extraordinary.
- Insane story about a guy who sold a dime worth $1.9 million and had to fly it across the US Jason Kottke is quite right. The best line is the bit where he says that he didn’t take the dime out because it’s suspicious to stare at dimes in public.
- Another Kottke rip-off – the trailer for new Wes Anderson film, ‘The Darjeeling Limited’ I love his style and the last two films, but it looked kind of samey from the trailer.
- Meg Hourihan has a very interesting and well-researched post on what she ate when she was pregnant and why… Really genuinely interesting. I imagine the world is litigious enough that most people are now too afraid to recommend anything with very very limited risks in case they got sued by those poor unfortunate people.
- An extraordinary blog post about The Punisher who gets his face messed up and needs to go into hiding so a plastic surgeon with a stack of melanin makes him black Jaw on the floor awesome. They don’t make ludicrous madshit like this any more.
- The London Evening Standard Headline Generator Brilliant fun. Ludicrous statements at the best of times, subsequently chopped up and recontextualised.
- Weird story from Wired News: Astronomers have found a huge area of the Universe completely devoid of, well, anything… My mind leaps to terms like Necrid Expanse from Star Trek. This is because I am a dweeb.
3 replies on “Links for 2007-08-27”
Hi Tom,
Thanks and I’m hoping it does get some attention. It should also be clear to anyone who finds the post via a search engine too.
On a completely separate issue, this is the first time I’ve used my OpenID account since signing up to it around five months ago. Cool.
Hey, I’ve been reading Stephen’s blog and found yours as a result. I run The Blog/Zine Network on meetup and thought what you had to say was so great I had to email all my members.
I do PR and blog which sometimes confuses people, but I feel I have an opinion and have the right to comment on other PR people’s events and such since I know it from both sides.
I’ve not been spammed (which I’m happy about), but do find pr people invite me to stuff knowing I’ll write about it if I like it. My personal policy is if I don’t like something I just won’t comment because silence is more effective than slamming it.
On a funny side note, I had a reality guy get a lot of buzz off my blog because I name dropped him a few times and now he checks my blog to see if I’ve written about his bday party (which I have deliberately chosen to keep silent on because he’s not paying me to promote him!)
Learned my lesson the hard way. Now it’s time for him to learn his.
In any case, just wanted to say hi. I like the way you think and am glad you’re a blogger with integrity. Keep on blogging!
JOY
A “reality guy”? Do I even want to know?