Interesting Links for 04-09-2012

[fearmeforiampink]

• Infinite cats
  A page of infinitely many pictures of cats (note to pedants; infinitely many cat pictures, not infinitely many *different* cat pictures)
  (tags: awwww brain meltingly cute I warn you cute cats posttofacebook )
• Sleeping Beauties Wait To Be Kissed At Ukrainian Museum
  'To participate in the exhibit, potential princes have to sign a contract that states, "If I kiss the Beauty and she opens her eyes, I agree to marry her." The female performers have also entered into an agreement that reads, "If I open my eyes while being kissed, I agree to marry the kisser."'
  (tags: art Ukraine weird wtf marriage fairy tales love fantasy posttofacebook tongues or no tongues? )
• How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards
  Livestream of the awards ceremony shut down by automated robots due to the terrible crime of… showing clips of stuff that was nominated for an award.
  (tags: posttofacebook internet media stupidity copyright Xandar; our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed; summon the meteors. wtf what the everliving fuck via James Graham )
• City of Heroes shutting down | bit-gamer.net
  'set to close its doors by the end of the year and NCSoft is disbanding its developer, Paragon Studios.'
  (tags: geeky computers computer games MMORPG interesting )
• BBC launches mobile downloads for iPlayer - Telegraph
  will allow viewers to download programmes onto a smartphone or tablet, free of charge.
  (tags: interesting technology BBC TV internet )
• Why Jeremy Hunt shouldn't be Health Minister
  Because he supports the wastes of money that are the homeopathic hospitals.
  (tags: posttofacebook Mmmmm the lovely water that CURES MALARIA (or in fact doesn't) UK government lies homeopathy medicine Xandar; our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed; summon the meteors. what the everliving fuck )
• 3 top Tories call for NHS to be dismantled - Mirror Online
  2009 story. Our health minister wants the NHS got rid of 'Three of his Shadow Cabinet - Michael Gove, Greg Clark and Jeremy Hunt - called for the health service to be dismantled. They claimed it was "no longer relevant"'
  (tags: via Zoe Stavri posttofacebook Westminster politics relates to another of today's links healthcare NHS health wtf )

Comments

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

That Sleeping Beauty thing is kind of creepy with the marriage contract.

Did you notice that George Takei Facebooked a screenshot of your Neil Armstrong tweet? I saw your handle and was all "hey! I know that name!"

[fearmeforiampink]

I'm guessing there's little plan for them actually to do so, though the cheeky part of me wonders if they've got a friend to cough at an appropriate moment or nudge them if the person in question looks particularly rich.

And yeah, the Neil Armstrong thing kinda exploded; have now had my boss ask me to use my newfound fame by retweeting the organisation's tweets a bit.

[tyrell.livejournal.com]

I'm really surprised about City of Heroes. It went free to play and made a TON of money, and was held up as the example of how this can work. And the fans are loyal (already got a 100,000 petition up to keep it running).

I enjoyed it a lot just before and after it went F2P, can't imagine why NCsoft would drop it: does Guild Wars 2 need the extra staff that urgently or something?

[fearmeforiampink]

It may have made initial money on free to play, but maybe that was dropping off? I dunno.