Links that caught my eye on March 28, 2011:
(With a hat tip to Maria Langer, from whom I got the idea to begin posting thusly.)
- An abject lesson in how NOT to react when someone posts a negative review of your work. This self-published author had a meltdown – on the reviewer’s site, no less – when it happened to her.
- People are getting quite creative with their Flavors.me pages. They use their own URLs (as opposed to flavors.me/page), so only code geeks would know they weren’t custom-made. Two fun examples: Jay Siegan and DEDE.
- A witty quote from writer Katie Rosman via her Twitter feed: “For those feeling unsettled about changes in the NYT’s pay structure, rest assured that the WSJ remains, as always, unfree.”
- CNBC named the Magic Castle, one of my favorite haunts (pun intended) among “America’s Weirdest Restaurants.” I find it more quirky than weird, personally, but then again that’s me.
- BioWare’s David Gaider calls out a Dragon Age 2 player offended at being hit on within the game by another guy, and demanding changes accordingly: “The romances in the game are not for the ‘straight male gamer.’ They’re for everyone. We have a lot of fans, many of whom are neither straight or male, and they deserve no less attention.”
- I first saw this trailer for the film Super when Ben Wszalek posted it on his Facebook page. It’s got a Hollywood Boulevard block full of stars (Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, Linda Cardellini, and Michael Rooker and – wait for it – Nathan Fillion) and I can’t wait to see it.
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