| Q. |
What are
these cards for? |
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See the page
called What is this?. |
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| Q. |
Who made
these cards and this website? |
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David Gauntlett, Professor
of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster -- see this page. |
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| Q. |
What are
'bootleg' cards? |
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They are cards
made by other people, in the style of the 'official' cards. The
official cards (#1-12) were made by David and first published here
during 2000-2001. People have been sending the bootlegs (#13-) ever
since, and we add them to the site too. |
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| Q. |
Why is the
website address theorycards.org.uk instead of theory.org.uk? |
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The answer
isn't very exciting. Due to the popularity of the theory.org.uk
site, I was having to pay a lot of extra money for the excessive
bandwidth, so a way around that was to turn the Trading Cards pages
into a separate-but-linked domain, which spreads the bandwidth stress.
However please just refer to the pages as
being part of Theory.org.uk or it will all get too confusing. |
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| Q. |
How have
these cards been received by the world? |
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The cards section
of this website gets about 35,000 visitors a month. For actual feedback
you want the letters page. |
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| Q. |
Can I send
you comments? |
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Of course
you can. Email david@theory.org.uk.
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| Q. |
How can
I help? |
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Get other
websites to link to www.theory.org.uk . . .
Tell newspapers and magazines about the site . . .
Thank you!
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| Q. |
How do I
print the cards out? |
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See the Help
with printing page.
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| Q. |
Why can't
I print out sheets of high-resolution images of the bootleg cards? |
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Because they
don't exist! The people who make the bootlegs do so for fun and
they can't be bothered to make the high-resolution versions that
I used to make. You can't blame them really. Nevertheless, you
can of course print out each bootleg card individually from the
webpage it appears on.
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| Q. |
Card 4 seems
unusually rude about psychologists. Why? |
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When I wrote
the rules of the trading card game, I
realised that it was no good just having cards about great ideas
and clever theorists -- you need some weak cards too. So obviously
we had to start with the psychologists. |
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| Q. |
Where can
I buy a set of these cards? |
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You can't,
they only exist here on the Web. But you can download a whole high-resolution
set from the main page. |
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| Q. |
Why don't
you do a card on [x]? |
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Well, maybe
you would like to write exactly 63 words on that topic? (Plus
strengths, weaknesses and special skills). Email me
if you'd like to write a card. |
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