The Future Is Fiction: Archive

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Feb 26th

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Feb 25th

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So...there really is a sex tape.

Barney: “So…there really is a sex tape.”

Feb 21st

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Which is cuter? Rabbit or duck?

Duck image via discovery.com Which is cuter? The duck or the bunny rabbit? rabbit image via scientopia.org How I Met Your Mother did an episode where their little clique got into one of their biggest fights—over which is cuter, a duck or rabbit. At the time it seemed to me that the humorous thing was that a bunny is obviously much cuter than a duck. Like the joke was how absurd it was...

Feb 21st

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Fun With the Freelance Calculator

I’ve known for a while that Freelance Switch offers this super-nifty calculator that will help you determine how much money you should charge per hour based on your cost of living and quantity worked. I hadn’t really taken advantage of it yet, because when you first get started as a freelancer there’s about a million and one things on your to-do list that don’t make...

Feb 18th

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Query Quagmire: THE (SECOND) GREAT ELEVATOR PITCH... →

queryquagmire: In honor of Valentine’s Day, I would like to show my love to you, dear readers, with another round of the Elevator Pitch Game. What’s that? It’s when I invite you all to submit your best elevator pitch to me and then I post the best ones to QQ with honest (but gentle) feedback. Examples here,…

Feb 16th

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Feb 15th

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Feb 14th

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I’m writing a sideshow on GoMiso now for How I Met Your Mother. Which inspires me to make silly gifs like this. It’s still only available on iPhone, but I’ll post a link when it’s available on the web.

Feb 14th

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Feb 14th

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“A wise man once told me that we are all God in drag. I like that. Sometimes when...”

– Chuck Lorre Productions #240

Feb 11th

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Feb 7th

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Feb 4th

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Feb 3rd

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Glee Does "Black or White" video

I remember when the video first came out CGI was still mad expensive and this face-switching cost them millions. Now it’s on network TV.

Feb 1st

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Tonight on Glee they played only Michael Jackson songs. They let Artie out of his chair and he got all saucy on us.

Feb 1st

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My books at Lulu dot Com are 30% off until January... →

Good to know. I hope their marketing team is calling this “30 through 30.” wilwheaton: Everything at Lulu is 30% off until January 31, if you use code SHELFSTOCK305. The link above goes to my Lulu store, where you can get most of my independently published works.

Jan 27th

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Jan 24th

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Jan 23rd

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Jan 22nd

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A Blowjob Anecdote as Described by HP Lovecraft →

Jan 21st

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Veterans in Fiction: We're Going To Be Seeing More...

Last night on Glee, one of the male leads announced he was going to enlist. Glee is as campy as it is liberal, so it was expected that hunky but nosey teacher Will Shooster would try to stop Finn from becoming another dead hero, like his father. I was expecting the typical “don’t do it son; it’s not worth it” speech. The twist they threw down was much more honest. In...

Jan 19th

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Jan 16th

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Jan 15th

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Every Day Fiction - The once a day flash fiction... →

This site features a new short story every day. They also have a similar site for poetry.

Jan 11th

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Nicholas Carr on E-Books

via online.wsj.com Nicholas Carr has an article in The Wall Street Journal about the malleability of e-books. Because a digital edition can be perpetually edited, it is never officially finished. He muses on how intrusive school boards and dictators will tinker in otherwise “published” e-books. The section that interested me most (as I’ve pondered the article’s...

Jan 5th

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11 Free Philip K. Dick Short Stories

If you don’t know who this fellow is but you loved Blade Runner or Scanner Darkly, then you do know and you should check this out. technoccult: Open Culture rounded up 11 Philip K. Dick short stories that you can download for free - legally. It includes his first published story, “Beyond Lies the Wub,” which is also the source for the illustration above. Original Article

Jan 4th

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Future is Fiction, Best of 2011 →

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Jan 4th

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Jan 1st

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If SOPA Passes It Will Be the End of Music... →

Dec 28th

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Dec 27th

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“Instead of No Afterlife or Eternal bliss, imagine this: Consider that...”

– From examples of Fridge Horror under the category> Real Life - TVTropes.org

Dec 23rd

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Dec 21st

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Fμckbird and Jim: James Joyce’s letters to Nora... →

Pornographic letters from one of the greatest writers of the English language.

Dec 20th

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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Twelve Days Of... →

McSweeney’s strikes again: Colin Nissan will fill your belly with LULz in his take on the Twelve Days of Christmas.

Dec 16th

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Dec 12th

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“At that time, he was like this kind of mother-hen figure for young...”

– —“Don’t Look Back,” The Guardian on Lester Bangs, December 13, 1948 – April 30, 1982

Dec 12th

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Dec 6th

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Dec 2nd

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Dec 1st

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Nov 30th

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“If you’re ever going to be a good writer, then you probably tend to be afraid...”

– Dan Harmon’s Tumblr. FOLLOW THIS TUMBLOG. If you don’t know the name, Dan Harmon is the creator of Community, one of the funniest shows on TV right now.

Nov 30th

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