In the lobby of the Lowes Harvard Square today, while waiting for Million Dollar Baby, I saw the following two posters side-by-side, much like they are below if your browser window is quite large.
Both these movies are distributed by Warner Brothers. They're both comic book adaptations. They ought to both appeal to a similar audience. What are the execs at Warner Brothers thinking? This is why Marvel-based movies are on a fairly strong run, while DC-based movies are not.
I admit it: the lure of a free Mac mini led me to take a peek at Freeminimacs.com. The deal is that you sign up for one of several offers via their site, and you get ten of your friends to do the same thing, and you get a free Mac mini out of it. Presumably your friends go out and do the same, and so on.
The economics of this seem to make sense -- it's your basic pyramid scheme, but less objectionable because the upfront cost of getting involved is minimized. The percentage of people who complete the offer is fairly low, while the people behind it are making money on everyone who starts the process. So, sure, for a free Mac mini I was willing to give 'em my email address. My spam filter is mighty.
Alas, the offers don't really match up with anything I'd wanna sign up for. Credit cards, Blockbuster Online, random cheesy stuff. Which isn't surprising, I suppose.
I just installed Brad Choate's MT-DSBL plugin, hacked slightly so that it checks against both the Distributed Sender Blackhole List and the Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor List. (Perhaps I should add SORBS?) Hopefully this'll cut down on spam.
If this interferes with anyone's commenting, please let me know.
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