Things We Saw Today: Game Of Thrones Dragons Get Revenge On The NY Times

Surfing the web today you might have noticed HBO took out huge, site-spanning advertisements for Season 3 of Game of Thrones which featured the shadow of a dragon passing over the page. Well here’s the still version of that from today’s NY Times. (I’m gonna say it’s revenge for this.)We sell ad space here on The Mary Sue but this is one I would have paid to have on the site. (via Co.Create) 

• Have you ever wondered how Bed, Bath & Beyond keep their towels folded so perfectly? They don’t. It’s totally a scam. Take a look at what we mean at The Frisky.
• Did you notice the Life of Pi visual effects winners getting played off by the Jaws theme last night on the Oscars? That’s actually more messed up than you think it is. At the same time, over 400 people were outside the theater protesting You can read more about it at Geekosystem, The Guardian, VFX Soldier, and the #vfxprotest or #vfxunited hashtags on twitter.

Yes. (via When Geeks Wed)

• Katie Heaney writes on BuzzFeed, How Should a Game Girl Be? Basically, we can’t win.
• Alyssa Rosenberg writes on ThinkProgress, Why Seth MacFarlane and The Onion’s Jokes About Quvenzhané Wallis Are So Gross. That includes The Onion’s apology letter.

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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