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What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?

Novel-writing is like an interstellar voyage: disorienting and lengthy. Go off course, and it can be nigh-impossible to backtrack. What do you do when your novel’s taken a wrong turn? Scott Westerfeld, Brad Meltzer, Cherie Priest and Rudy Rucker explain. Especially if you’re writing a book for National Novel Writing Month, every day of forward…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

One Day, Someone Will Post the Blu-ray Version of This Video

In 1985, people thought Laserdiscs would be the future of cinema. After all, they had unmatched picture quality, they were virtually indestructible, and they had a lot of extras. Just like Blu-ray. See what I did there? See? [Obsolete]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Fishing For Mermaids And Displaying Your Prehensile Tail For Strangers: It’s A Living, Sort Of

If you love the work of Kelly Link, you owe it to yourself to check out “Six From Downtown,” a collection of six vignettes about despair and alienation by Philippine writer Dean Francis Alfar. Plus, a poet explains magic realism! “Six From Downtown” definitely reminds me of Link at her best, with its stark, dreamlike…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Lung Flute Lets You Play the Soulful Sounds of Phlegm

The Lung Flute isn’t an instrument, really. Instead, it’s a disgustingly awesome object that dislodges all the pesky mucus hanging out in your lungs. I want one. As you can see in the video above, you simply blow into this thing and it uses sound waves to vibrate all the mucus out of your lungs.…

Tech News Adam Frucci

7 Superhero Stories Too Big For Movies

Sure, movies like Iron Man and The Dark Knight have proven that superheroes can work on the big screen, but sometimes only comics can offer longjohned epics so large-scale that they’d break Hollywood in half through special effects budget alone. The Pitt Few remember – and maybe with good reason – the end of Marvel’s…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Gifts for Outdoorsy Geeks Not Averse to Sunshine or Sweat

Your geek works in front of a computer all day, but yearns to be outside skiing or something. Here are some gift ideas for that type. (Also, this is a highly personal list tailored towards ski and snowboarding, so please add ideas to the comments.) BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as…

Tech News Brian Lam

Colby The Christian Robot Wants Your Soul

This is Colby, the Christian robot. Fast forward to 3:40 when his robot army tries to transform the bullying kid into another Christian robot, singing, "We are all robots, you must be a robot too." [ via Everything Is Terrible] Side Note: Apparently I need to point out that this is an edited version of…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Gadget Deals of the Day

A well balanced Hobomodo diet: a free medium cheese pizza from Papa Johns, a helping of Stacy’s delicious Simply Naked pita chips, and some Lipton Tea to wash it all down. Top Deals: • 15.6″ Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5986 Laptop for $399.99 plus free shipping (normally $500). • 46″ Sharp AQUOS LC-46LE700UN 1080p 120 Hz LED…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

I Just Can’t Get Enough of These Robolamps

Croatian artist Robert Matysiak has a really awesome thing going with his Robolamps. It’s just a bunch of plumbing supplies and green light bulbs, but I want to collect them all. The only problem is that Robolamps have not gone commercial, but if they did, I have no doubt that they would sell. Well, maybe…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Sony’s Crazy Interactive TV Patent Lets You Throw Tomatoes at Actors

Somehow we missed Sony Computer Entertainment America’s fourth wall-breaking patent application earlier this month, but here’s how the concept would work: Using a PS3, you’d control an on-screen avatar to throw tomatoes at actors, and even kick their ass…literally. “Avatars displayed to a user, in response to user gestures in the real world, e.g. in…

Tech News Danny Allen

The Strange Case of a Goat That Lived Like a Reptile

The now-extinct Myotragus balearicus, or “mouse goat,” stood a mere 19 inches high, but its small stature is by no means its most unusual trait. Paleontologists have determined that this diminutive goat had more in common with reptiles than mammals. In a paper published in the new issues of Proceedings of the National Academy of…

io9 Lauren Davis

Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!

When science fiction books depict people living in the distant future, where’s the coffee? Tor.Com’s Jo Walton wants to know. She lists some of the hilarious words authors use instead of coffee, including Anne McCaffrey‘s “klah” and Steven Brust’s “klava.” Notes Walton: Even C.J. Cherryh in the Chanur books does this. They drink gfi. Gfi!…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

56 of the Most Hilarious and Amazing Modern Warfare 2 Easter Eggs You Will Ever See

Is it possible to love the results of a Photoshop Contest too much? Because oh man, these had me rolling on the floor. Seriously, you’re going to want to check this gallery out. First Place—Jim Chitwood Second Place—Andreas Kokkinos Third Place—Sergio Hikawa

Tech News Adam Frucci

Because What We All Need Right Now Is an App to Tell Us We’re Ugly

Fact, maybe: Human beauty has nothing to do with subjective judgment, and everything to do with some obscure mathematical equation. Fact, definitely: There is an iPhone app based on this theory. Designed by giant human baby Ed Nash, above, Fit or Fugly (Fit: Brit., informal: SEXXXY) judges your attractiveness based on the proportions of your…

Tech News John Herrman

Match Candles Make Lighting Each Cigarette Feel Like Your Birthday

They aren’t carton-lit like real matches, but these match candles ($6 for 4 packs) are one way to up the ante on that Zippo-lighter guy we all know who thinks he’s so cool. (The other is lung cancer.) [Yanko]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Broadway Brings Back Carrie’s Bloody Prom And The Addams Family

Check out the first picture of the Chicago cast of The Addams Family — including Nathan Lane as Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia. Plus it’s hard to believe, but Carrie: The Musical is back! This picture, which was released in Vanity Fair, shows the brand new musical cast for The Addams Family, which is…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Disney Beaches Captain Nemo

McG’s planned reboot of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea has been put on hold by Disney, and McG is no longer attached to direct the project, according to Variety. Maybe they saw how well he treated the Terminator franchise.

Movies Graeme McMillan

Ultimate Pocket Camcorder Comparison

Pocket camcorders are a hot holiday gift, but due to their nearly identical feature sets, it can be tough to tell which is best—so I tested seven of these humble unitaskers to make your decision easier. You’re welcome. Pocket camcorders (AKA mini cams or budget cams, or sometimes Flip cams after the pioneer of the…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin MM-1: Speakers Too Nice for Your PC

We have few actual specs on these Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin MM-1 USB speakers, but if the high-end computer speakers sound nearly as good as they look, we’re in for a treat. Arriving January 2010. [Ecoustics via Engadget]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Tomorrow’s Uprising Against Genre Classification Has Been Canceled. As You Were.

We were kind of excited when we found out that tomorrow was International Science Fiction Reshelving Day, in which an army of guerilla book lovers were going to go into bookstores and smuggle science fiction books by authors like Margeret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Kurt Vonnegut into the “science fiction” section of the store. Sure, it…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?

One Day, Someone Will Post the Blu-ray Version of This Video

Fishing For Mermaids And Displaying Your Prehensile Tail For Strangers: It’s A Living, Sort Of

The Lung Flute Lets You Play the Soulful Sounds of Phlegm

7 Superhero Stories Too Big For Movies

Gifts for Outdoorsy Geeks Not Averse to Sunshine or Sweat

Colby The Christian Robot Wants Your Soul

Gadget Deals of the Day

I Just Can’t Get Enough of These Robolamps

Sony’s Crazy Interactive TV Patent Lets You Throw Tomatoes at Actors

The Strange Case of a Goat That Lived Like a Reptile

Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!

56 of the Most Hilarious and Amazing Modern Warfare 2 Easter Eggs You Will Ever See

Because What We All Need Right Now Is an App to Tell Us We’re Ugly

Match Candles Make Lighting Each Cigarette Feel Like Your Birthday

Broadway Brings Back Carrie’s Bloody Prom And The Addams Family

Disney Beaches Captain Nemo

Ultimate Pocket Camcorder Comparison

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin MM-1: Speakers Too Nice for Your PC

Tomorrow’s Uprising Against Genre Classification Has Been Canceled. As You Were.

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