Here is your bi-weekly dose of those Nerdy Odds & Ends I seem to find every time I turn the corner on the internets.
Check out a new book blog written like a comic over at Picture Me Reading. She has some great reviews and I quite enjoy reading her posts. Plus she often partakes in the book blogging memes, highlighting poems and what not. It is a great blog, you should check it out.
Problems at Good Reads continues. Now they are disciplining the reviewers by hiding bad reviews, or those reviews that have nothing to do with the book. Because apparently all the bad blood on Good Reads a site for readers, is the fault of all the readers rather than the fault of a few people bickering back and forth. Siding with the authors is evidenced by their statement of review the book not the author, a montra authors have been chanting for a while now. But why are we censoring reviewers? One author asks people not to avenger her, and then she questions why there appears to be a lot of sexism in the silencing of bad reviewers. It is a contentious issue on the internets right now, and people are not done talking about it. What the final fall out will be? I’m not sure.
On a lighter note, check out this TARDIS shed being attacked by a Dalek. I still don’t understand why the Dalek’s are so cutsified or how they raise any terror. They are just large trash cans that move really slowly with one laser pointer. I’m not a fan of them. Let’s just take a bat to all of them!
Can’t get enough of Warehouse 13? Well check out these interviews at SpoilerTV for some fun reading in between episodes. Note the sites banner of beautiful people. Drool.
After what happened in Colorado, our hearts go out to the victims and their families, people are cautious in their reviews of the Dark Knight Rises. Tragedy is now aligned with the movie, and that makes it a sensitive subject. But I did find a great review on Nashville Bookworm.
Have you ever wanted to take a gumball from the head of a taxidermied zombie on a spike? Me neither. But somebody thought it would be a good idea. That is just soooo wrong, I’m sure my mother will love it! :D
A Geeky DIY crafting show hosted by Bonnie Burton is not available for your viewing pleasure on Youtube. Looks like a fun time. Remember there is no glitter in steampunk. [via The Mary Sue]
Wow there has been a lot of drama on goodreads..one of the books I recently reviewed ‘The Selection’ apparently the author her agent were deliberately pushing up good reviews and try to push away bad ones!
Yes, it has been crazy. I think we all need to subscribe to Wil Wheaton’s philosophy of Don’t Be A Dick. Common courtesy would go a long way toward better relations between authors and reviewers.
I love Wil Wheaton! I agree..people have a right to express when they don’t like something! I don’t agree with rudeness but a well thought out review with explanations of the reasoning behind it..what is problem with that?
I agree. I think having a differing opinion merely makes someone an interesting idea. Rudeness is one thing, but disliking something for a reason is not rudeness. I had a blow up over a book I reviewed that I ended up not liking for various reasons. It was interesting experience. Actually, the author was the nicest person about the review. Her fans, not so much.
Fandoms on the internuts are a little overzealous in defending their beloved ‘whatever’..don’t get it especially..if other people don’t like what I like for no good or explanable reason I just see it as a symptom of their bad taste ;> and I ignore! ;>
I do a lot of ignoring of bad taste in life. :)
Ignore the link..it was a will wheaton gif I like but the link isn’t working!
I wondered. LOL
Is Goodreads getting ready to jump the shark with this move? It could happen…
I wonder if some people will just leave GoodReads after all of this, and the site will become defunct like MySpace. Who knows?
Hey the Daleks are coming back by force, all of them, and can be seen in today’s new 90 second trailer. I hope you can see this where you are:
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/07/dwn020812060008-bbc-release-series-7a.html
You totally just made my DAY!!!!!!
Geek crafting?! I’d better not show that to the guys in the office.
I watched the first episode, it’s about making a robot. The guest star is one of the guys from Myth Busters. It is pretty awesome!
I always thought the Daleks were a bit weak… but of course, they were a product of very early Who… in England, the joke was always that you just had to run upstairs to escape a Dalek ;)
Can’t wait for season seven… I have a YouTube app on my media player that’s hooked up to my big screen TV so I was able to enjoy the trailer in full HD widescreen big-assed glory! :D
BTW, have been meaning to ask… have you ever watched Red Dwarf? That’s coming back too… :)
It’s cold outside, there is no kind of atmosphere..I am alone, more or less!
Let me fly far away from here… fun, fun fun…
In the sun, sun sun…
:D
I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose,
Drinking fresh mango juice.
Goldfishes nibbling at my toes…
Fun, fun, fun… in the sun, sun, sun…
Okay, I think we’ve hijacked Jami’s post plenty now LOL She’ll ban us if we carry on…
Goldfishes nibbling at my toes…
Fun, fun, fun… in the sun, sun, sun…
Okay, I think we’ve hijacked Jami’s post plenty now LOL She’ll ban us if we carry on…
…either that or she’ll call us smegheads…
I will behave then :) Still Red Dwarf is awesome! :)
You guys make me laugh. I love that you hijacked my post. No banning . . . at the moment. :)
I can’t wait for Doctor Who, I just know it will be amazing!
I have not watched Red Dwarf, people in the past have pointed it out to me, but I haven’t taken the time to see if I can find it available to me. I may have to track it down this weekend. :)
I highly recommend the Dimension Jump episode – not sure which season it is – but it’s an excellent Top Gun parody :)
“Smoke me a kipper… I’ll be back for breakfast!”
LOL I have an interesting Top Gun story involving freshman hazing, boys in sports bra, and the dining commons at college.
Sounds like a future post to me!!! :D Especially if it involves singing You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling or Take My Breath Away…
It involved the first song. . . Slightly embarrassing moment, but funny in the end. ;)
Here is the story, if interested.
So I went to a community college for two years before transferring to a Christian university in the Midwest. If you make a guess, you probably mostly right, and if it isn’t the exact school, it was *that* school. I went from being, not exactly the most popular girl at school, but I had a definite cohort of rotating friends of which I was the centering . . .rod? to the girl no one knew, who was not a freshman, not a sophomore, and not a junior, but a bit of all three.
My first week of classes I arrived to a class one hour late, to another fifteen minutes early (faulty clock), and stepped on a bee with no idea where to find a single ice cube. On Friday, I was sitting at a large round table in the middle of the dining commons eating some bland cafeteria food, weighed down by the realization that where before I had 15 people I ate lunch with every day, for the first time in over two years I was eating lunch all by my lonesome. Sobering moment. Suddenly a chorus of young male voices echoed through the large room, I looked behind me. 10 or 20 freshmen male soccer players came jogging around the dining commons in 80s shorts and sports bras (I really wonder where they got those, anyhoo). I don’t remember what they were shouting but I returned to my food. 30 seconds later the entire group of guys was surrounding my table singing “You’ve lost that loving feeling” in its entirety. The “lead” guy grabbed the carnation off the table, got down on one knee and handed it to me. EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the entire dining commons watching the whole debacle. I got red in the face from embarrassment and laughing my butt off. I thanked the dude for the flower, putting it back in its holder as they jogged back out of the dining commons chanting something else.
LOL Are you sure they weren’t English? It sounds like something our rugby players would do.. :)
Definite hazing ritual of some sort, Christian school style.