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Spoiled for choice
Anna, who for the purposes of this discussion I might call "Snowbooks' secret weapon" (although, strictly speaking we do have more than one secret weapon) made a fine and eloquent point recently, in between discussions of kittens, about the way content and the marketing of that content can get in each other's way.
"I really wanted to like the American version of 'Who Do You Think You Are?' -- it's an interesting subject, after all -- but I can't stand wasting time hearing about what's coming up after the commercial break. If you have to plan a teaser for every segment, just so people won't wander away, there's probably something fundamentally wrong with your content (or you've severely underestimated your viewers)."
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This is what we do
See this? This makes me happy. This is lovely Sean Cummings holding a freshly printed copy of his brilliant novel Shade Fright, in Saskatchewan, Canada. We make people happy. Yey.
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Plane troubling
Here's a slightly troubling thing: link. Go there and wait 20 seconds. It's a map of Europe with the positions of passenger planes superimposed. Maybe it's just the fact that they are piled up on top of each other (not really, just on the map) that bothers me. Or that it looks like such a mess - or even like a plane feeding frenzy. Anyway, file it under 'oddly disconcerting'.