Sunday Almanac: The Second Annual Reader Survey needs you

“Forward to Mount Hexmap and the glorious ultimate victory of premium games, Comrades!”

I believe it was Churchill who said that advertising is the worst way of supporting a website, except for all the others that have been attempted. Well for the moment, at least, advertising provides most of the revenue that pays Pocket Tactics‘ bills and pays for the services of our exceptional staff (Neumann, Clancy, Kelsey, FNG Jacob) and our unexceptional staff (Owen).

So that we can brag to our advertisers about how attractive and intelligent our readership is, we do one annual survey to get to know you better. Last month there were about 150,000 different people that came to PT around a million times, so we’d love to hear a little bit about who you are and what you think.

I promise in every legally binding way that we won’t use this information for anything nefarious or sell it or anything like that. We just want to be able to tell our advertisers that you’re 60% Americans and 14% left-handed and 21% Whigs and that sort of thing.

I’ve got a bunch of promo codes for good iOS games to give away as a thank-you for taking the time to do the survey. Leave us your email address and the end of the survey (totally optional) and I’ll give them away in a random drawing at the end of this week.

So here’s the survey — thanks very much for your time.

And thanks again for reading Pocket Tactics. The site gets bigger every single month and it’s hugely gratifying that folks like you enjoy our terrible headline puns and whatnot.

Sunday links after the jump.

• “The unstoppable TI-84 Plus“: The story of that big clunky $100 calculator you had to buy for that freshman statistics class and never used again.

• An enormous YouTube playlist of long looped ambient sounds from sci-fi movies. You know what the soundtrack to my productivity (ahem, “productivity) will be this week. (via Kottke)

• A paper in the journal Early Medieval Europe reports new evidence that Viking warriors were commonly female.

• The Flat Earth Society is still a thing that exists in 2014, and of course Vice has interviewed them.

• Just some deer crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, nbd. (via Kyle Mizokami)

• What it’s like to write for Pocket Tactics.