Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for July 12th from 23:16 to 18:45:

• Meet Terry Myerson, the most important man at Microsoft –
• Was Jay-Z’s Magna Carta app bad design or a sleazy data grab? –
• Even with giant robots, ‘Pacific Rim’ can’t avoid the movie game curse –
• Artist turns Beijing’s Water Cube into a massive emoji-based mood ring –
• Checklists for Creative Work –
• How one company hopes to transform physical space using video game principles –
• At Sears, Eddie Lampert’s Warring Divisions Model Adds to the Troubles – Businessweek –
• Nordling Reviews PACIFIC RIM! – Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. –
• Did you guys know PACIFIC RIM opened today? Capone wonders why no one is talking about it – Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. – Burn Gorman
• Gullermo Del Toro and Thomas Tull Discuss ‘Pacific Rim,’ Possible Sequel – Spinoff Online – TV, Film, and Entertainment News Daily – "Del Toro: You need to, however thoroughly you can, embrace transmedia and you have to think about storytelling on the whole creation, so hopefully no matter how many years pass between the first Pacific Rim and the second one, we will have time to develop a really good video game with a story and universe that continues expanding, that it’s a product that continues the story, continue the graphic novels, that will help the mythology of Pacific Rim."