madmind

The end of the year is near and soon we have fewer years left until a meteor, alien invasion, malfunctioning earth core, solar eruption or George W. Bush completely destroys humanity in the year 2012.

But don’t think I’d let me (and you) off the hook so easily - until our fated doom I serve you blog posts with a smyle and a heart, even if it’s only list posts to review the past…

Therefore here are the best blog posts of madmind of this year in no particular order. Thank you for your support albeit how small it may be.

Let’s get started!

Do you want to know how to know if a movie is mediocre at best and an unimaginable pile of shit at worst?

Of course there are many ways to spot one of those “movies” out there. If you read stuff about movies, many authors of screenwriting books tell you that it takes 10 to 15 minutes until you know if the movie is good or not.

While that is true, there’s an even faster way. And it only takes one minute - if at all.

Do you see it on this website? No? Look closer. It’s not far away.

Now?

No?

Then let me explain…

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Today I stumbled upon an interesting post on Slashfilm that deals with the various box offices of every Harry Potter movie from 1 to 5. While the different box offices’ up and downs is cool to look at, there’s one problem in that post which urges me to write about it in more detail since I often use statistics and hence feel some sort of obligation: the proper way to create charts.

Although there’s tons of news - as always - I simply can’t think of anything remotely interesting for me to blog about. Perhaps it’s this constant flood of news in my RSS reader that causes this lack of interest. Some of the news are indeed interesting but - let’s face it - most of them don’t get published in newspapers for a reason.