BBC Maestro has an entire course on mystery writing, “taught by Agatha Christie.” They based the course on writings from the Agatha Christie Estate on the craft of writing. Cleverly, they cast an actor who looked like Christie, and directed her through teaching all the lessons. Then they used a combination of digital VFX and some machine learning to transform the actor into the spitting image of Christie herself.
And it’s actually a good course. Agatha Christie knew a thing or two about writing stories.
I was a bit shocked and skeptical when I heard about this, but on digging further I learnt that the conspiracy goes way further than you could possible imagine.
For example, did you know that it’s not even a real panda in Kung Fu Panda 2?!
Yeah, but it’s a real gorilla climbing the Empire State building in King Kong.
I loved it and watched it before I started today’s (non-fiction) writing session. But apparently I was in the minority because it was really hated by the viewers by a long shot, more than 6 to 1.
I’m not sure that’s a clear conclusion; there’s no “thumbs down” button, so we don’t know how many people didn’t like it. I, for one, enjoyed it and did not click “thumbs up” because I generally don’t vote on things like that. I imagine there are many others who felt the same way.
Glad you enjoyed the course.
Selection bias is definitely a thing in this kind of situation. People who don’t like a thing will complain loudly. People who liked it or were neutral will quietly enjoy it and go on with their lives.
(People who love Scrivener rarely email customer support, too.)
On FireFox you can get an add-on that shows the “thumbs down” and that is what the arrow is pointing to.
Most browsers, thankfully, as your article also explains. (Maybe Safari isn’t that straightforward, but it’s doable.)
Yes it is true that most browser do, but I rarely use others. I stuck to FF since the beginning. My friends who run computer security companies tell me that FF is the most secure browser.
It’s a good option. Should be much more popular, but I suspect the extremely low market share comes with the extra bonus of not being a prime target.
We can fix this. Do you have a word count in mind?
Security through obscurity.