Interesting Links for 21-09-2014

[andrewducker]

• From bauxite and corn starch to cans in the fridge - how Coca Cola is made
  (tags: cocacola metal manufacturing drink )
• Patrick Stewart Recites a Poem In His Native Huddersfield (Yorkshire) Dialect
  (tags: PatrickStewart video accents UK )
• A fantastic piece on the death of design in magazine covers and movie posters
  (tags: design art movies

Comments

[cartesiandaemon]

I think you're right, but I'm worried there's something else, and can't tell if that's just my brain clinging to old ways of doing things because that's what I'm used to, or if there's more to it.

I always believe in measuring things, because I remember so many stories of extremely experienced experts in many fields *assuming* they knew what they were doing, and, surprise, it turned out they were completely wrong if you actually tried both ways and compared them.

But I also remember many things where metrics end of doing harm (obscuring more-important things that don't easily lend themselves to metrics, being gamed, discounting unusual high-cost events, etc) even though those maybe don't seem to apply here.

I don't know *what's* wrong, but I'm worried about something like "every advert is more eye-catching if it's more pornographic, so soon all adverts are wall-to-wall pornography, and then everyone gets jaded to that" or "it appeals to everyone a little bit, but there's less room for films which appeal to anyone *a lot*". Or maybe, the decision IS cost-effective for the company making them, but how much money people pay is only an approximate measure of how much enjoyment they get?