- Maybe you’ve seen these clever Old Spice commercials, or these responses to Twitter fans? But have you seen this terrific parody? Well, now you have. [via]
- I’m not always in love with Improv Everywhere’s “missions,” but this was pretty cute. How is it that I never seem to run into these things in Manhattan?
- John Sclazi discusses Canadians in Science Fiction Because, you know, there are.
- Also coming soon to Canada: Netflix streaming. This was part of the exchange deal for Tim Horton’s, right?
- And finally, last week I mentioned how this “I Write Like” meme that’s been going around was kind of dumb and inaccurate. Turns out, it’s probably also kind of a scam.
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I just went to I Write Like, and I got:
Great job! Do you want to write better?
Stephen King’s On Writing is a must-read!
With a link to Amazon.com’s page for that book.
So, not a scam, just targeted advertising.
It had been targeted advertising to what’s effectively a self-publishing scam*, but they’ve since changed the link to Stephen King’s (rather good, actually) book. I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, and they have made that change, so “scam” might have been putting it a little too harshly.
Its results are still pretty useless, though.
* This is not necessarily an oxymoron, but if you self-publish, you almost always also self-edit, self-market, and self-promote and often get a lot less than what you pay for.
I loved that ‘study like a scholar, scholar’ bit, and I’m pretty sure I saw one of my bosses watching it this morning before work started. I wish there was a t-shirt for it…it’s pretty darn awesome.