some links
Dec. 3rd, 2009 01:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inmyriadbitsMy inability to focus has been epic today (WHY GOD WHY? the deadlines approach with the inevitability of zombies...), which tends to result in my opening a million tabs in Firefox because I'll be reading a fic and suddenly need to look up the definition of a Turing test, or check the weather, which might tangent off into looking up the etymology of petrichor (the smell of rain on dry ground), or something. Anyway, I need to clear some tabs, so, links!
A theory on why "bad" fics can be so popular, with handy graph
President Bartlet calls the Butterball Hotline
Some Biologists Find an Urge in Human Nature to Help (NY Times)
Mirrors Don’t Lie. Mislead? Oh, Yes.
The graph is really quite cool, and readily applicable to any form of popular form of storytelling and not just fic. The President Bartlet clip is adorable in that unique way TWW pulls off so beautifully. Both NYT articles are very interesting, but the mirror one in particular was really freaking cool. I mean, do you know how big the reflection of your face actually is on the mirror? I didn't, before I read this. :)
A theory on why "bad" fics can be so popular, with handy graph
President Bartlet calls the Butterball Hotline
Some Biologists Find an Urge in Human Nature to Help (NY Times)
Mirrors Don’t Lie. Mislead? Oh, Yes.
The graph is really quite cool, and readily applicable to any form of popular form of storytelling and not just fic. The President Bartlet clip is adorable in that unique way TWW pulls off so beautifully. Both NYT articles are very interesting, but the mirror one in particular was really freaking cool. I mean, do you know how big the reflection of your face actually is on the mirror? I didn't, before I read this. :)