Daily Archives: December 17, 2012
The Hobbit at 48 Frames Per Second: A Review
Posted on December 17, 2012 141 Comments
As I am no longer a pro movie critic, I had to go see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey after it came out like a common troll (get it? Get — ah, never mind). My local cinema had it at the standard frame rate, but there was a movie theater in Dayton showing it at […]
Writer or Spambot?
Posted on December 17, 2012 49 Comments
Got spammed by a writer this morning on Twitter. The fellow isn’t someone I follow, so he made sure it popped up into my queue by putting “@scalzi” at the front, followed by a generic plug for his book and a link to the page he made for the book. Given that the vast majority […]
Tobias Buckell Goes Deep and Comes Back With Data
Posted on December 17, 2012 11 Comments
Toby Buckell did a Kickstarter for his novel The Apocalypse Ocean, and being Toby Buckell, now that he’s done with it, he’s written up an extensive (i.e., 5,000 word) post-mortem on the project, which includes context for the Kickstarter, the choices he made before, during and after the Kickstarter, and the lessons he’s learned from […]
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