| HP references make everything better (not) [message #264948] |
Mi, 10 Mai 2006 04:01 |
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Okay, I nominate this for worst Harry Potter fanfic ever:
http://www.inquiringminds.org/newsletter/0504/wizards.html
This is from a newsletter promoting critical thinking and skepticism for
young people, which is a perfectly good cause, but apparently they thought
the solution for trying to dress up a collection of links to blog postings
would be to slap a bunch of Harry Potter references on it. 'Cause then all
the kids would automatically think it was cool, right?
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Petrea Mitchell <|> <|> <pravn [at] m5p.com> <mitchep [at] osm.com>
"There is a lemma in information theory that says a cat at rest will remain
at rest, if it is resting on the book you want to read." -Stevens R. Miller
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| Re: HP references make everything better (not) [message #264953 ] |
Mi, 10 Mai 2006 05:33 |
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Petrea Mitchell wrote:
> http://www.inquiringminds.org/newsletter/0504/wizards.html
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> This is from a newsletter promoting critical thinking and skepticism for
> young people, which is a perfectly good cause, but apparently they thought
> the solution for trying to dress up a collection of links to blog postings
> would be to slap a bunch of Harry Potter references on it. 'Cause then all
> the kids would automatically think it was cool, right?
I must admit, it sure reads like a 19-year-old's notion of a good way
to write a story.
(Apologies to all those 19-year-olds out there who can write well. Of
course I'm not talking about *you*--I'm talking about all your cohorts
who couldn't write their way out of a paper bag.)
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| Re: HP references make everything better (not) [message #264958 ] |
Mi, 10 Mai 2006 06:10 |
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Petrea Mitchell <pravn [at] parkstreet.m5p.com> wrote in
news:1262icb8rofpp67 [at] corp.supernews.com:
> Okay, I nominate this for worst Harry Potter fanfic ever:
>
> http://www.inquiringminds.org/newsletter/0504/wizards.html
>
> This is from a newsletter promoting critical thinking and skepticism
> for young people, which is a perfectly good cause, but apparently they
> thought the solution for trying to dress up a collection of links to
> blog postings would be to slap a bunch of Harry Potter references on
> it. 'Cause then all the kids would automatically think it was cool,
> right?
Actually, that's a transcript of one of last year's incarnations of the
Skeptic's Circle, a biweekly "blog carnival" where bloggers submit entries
that are related to skepticism. Each "meeting" has a different narrative
theme, and that one just happened to have an HP theme. The most recent one
was made to look like the presentation of a scientific paper; the one
before that had the theme of an archaeological dig in the far future.
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