December 2011
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Did The Parent Companies Of Marvel And DC Create... →
“There’s a conspiracy theory going around courtesy of one Mike Mozart that alleges that the very backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation actually created the very piracy they are now trying to combat, as some nefarious money making/power grabbing scam.”
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I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping... -... →
“Box office revenue at movie theaters “lagged far behind 2010,” an article by the AP’s David Germain reports. Partly that was because the year lacked an “Avatar.” Partly because a solid summer slate fell off in the autumn. Germain talks to several Hollywood insiders who tried to account for the general decline of ticket sales; 2011 had “smallest movie...
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High Street Blues - Charlie's Diary →
“Internet sales have already eaten about 20% of the retail market by value, and around 10% of shop units in the UK are now standing vacant. Some large retail chains went bust early in the current recession (Woolworths, notably); others are teetering on the brink (Blacks, La Senza).
“Where are we going in another decade? What is the high street environment going to look like?”
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Church of the SubGenius Hour of Slack #1340 -...
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“When I was first starting out people always said, ‘Write what you know.’...”
– Maureen McHugh (via austinkleon)
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The Battery Powered Christmas, by Joe R. Lansdale →
“My parents and myself were staying in a little, rented house that leaned to one side like a wet card board box. It was almost Christmas, the first Christmas I remember, and the images are stuck to my mind like dog hair to Velcro…”
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No State Funeral for Thatcher - e-petitions →
Burn her! Burn the witch!
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Are you well read?
iandsharman:
There follows a list of “100 Books You Simply Must Read Before You Spontaneously Combust”…or, if you want to be more specific about it, “100 Books What I Have Read”…
Bold the books you’ve read, italicize the books you’ve read part of…or, alternatively, laugh at the rather strange selection of books I’ve read, and the way that I’ve padded out this list with multiple books from the...
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justjohn-jj replied to your link: Charles Stross - My view of contemporary US politics, which is that of an outsider and obviously incomplete (and possibly faulty, and subject to change) is as follows:
Query: Why bother with tinyurl in this setting? tumblr can handle very long URLs indeed, and it’s nice to see where a link is wanting to send us.
Habit. I used to export these Tumblr Posts to...
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