Things, bits, bobs, and whatnot.
My fandoms: Castle, New Girl, Psych, Cougar Town, Parks & Recreation, The Americans, Lost Girl, Doctor Who, Fringe, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, October Daye, InCryptid, Dresden Files, Young Wizards
Visual Miscellany
If you’re not an avid video gamer, you might not be familiar with the Humble Indie Bundle, or you might not have had an avid video gamer friend accost you and demand that you immediately take what’s offered by the habitual organizer and offerer of DRM-free indie developed games on a pay-what-you-want system where funds go directly to the game makers and game-related charities. This summer, the Humble Bundle branched out a bit, offering a bundle entirely of nerdy musical artists like MC Frontalot, They Might Be Giants, and Jonathan Coulton. Now the Bundle tackles another frontier: books. Here’s how it works:
#Humble Bundle #books #Neil Gaiman #Cory Doctorow #Mercedes Lackey #Kelly Link #Paolo Bacigalupi #Lauren Beukes #John Scalzi #Dave McKean #charity #queued
Listen? To a book? (Wednesday Wackiness)
So it’s Wednesday! Time for something a little different to switch it up in the middle of the week.
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#kindle #audible #john scalzi #jim butcher #dresden files #james marsters #wil wheaton
They said this air would be breathable
Get in, get out again and no one gets hurt
#redshirts #john scalzi #jonathan coulton #video
(via io9)
Redshirts isn’t a straight-up satire or critique of Star Trek and similar shows — which is probably for the best. Scalzi takes some of his trademark smart, quippy characters and puts them into a Trekkian reality in which they’re forced to make sense of their existence. It’s one partRosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, one part “Below Decks,” and one part geeky nitpicking about the bad science in science fiction television. With a dash of Cabin in the Woods.
…I’m sold!
#john scalzi #redshirts #books #star trek
John Scalzi interviewing Jonathan Coulton - there’s a series of these, one per day, where they discuss a different Jonathan Coulton song, and then at the end of it all, there’ll be a brand-new JoCo song!
#jonathan coulton #john scalzi #journey to planet joco #re: your brains #geeksplosion
COULTON: That’s true, well I guess the nice people spend so much time controlling their inner monsters that when it comes time to actually express those voices a little bit, there’s a lot of stored-up monsterism.
…I don’t know what you’re talking about.
#jonathan coulton #joco #john scalzi #journey to planet joco #still alive #portal #interview
