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dr. horrible's sing-along blog

The Searing Laugh Of Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible

The first teaser trailer for Joss Whedon's Internet musical Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog has gone online, and it's every bit as fantastic as we'd expected. Neil Patrick Harris does the loser-supervillain thing the way Buffy's nerd trio only wished they could, and the goggles are spot-on perfect. Suddenly I'm wishing that Joss would direct the movie version of Austin Grossman's supervillain comic epic Soon I Will Be Invincible. [Whedonesque, via Underwire]

11:27 AM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
5,164 views, 27 comments

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Meet Guest Blogger Austin Grossman

Austin Grossman is stopping in for the next week or so to be a guest blogger for io9. An accomplished game developer, Austin took a hiatus to pursue his Ph.D. in English at UC Berkeley and last year published a hit novel about neurotic superheroes (and villains) called Soon I Will Be Invincible. I interviewed Austin last year about video game writing and novel writing for Wired. He'll start his guest editing gig by posting his thoughts on the recent Game Developer Conference, and then he's promised to write about a few other geeky topics — including the secret history of early scifi role-playing game Gamma World!

7:40 AM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Annalee Newitz
252 views, 14 comments

Latest by Jim_in_Buffalo: I know a woman with a PhD in English, and she makes a killing as a consultant. And she gets to come into my office and tell me what to do. That is, if I'm not too busy. She's polite more »

doomsday plans

10 Ways To Destroy The Earth Without Nukes

You can't really call yourself an evil genius unless you've got a clever scheme for wrecking our planet once and for all. And no, using nuclear weapons doesn't really count as "clever." Nukes are so 1950. Here's a list of the 10 coolest ways to smash Earth, or at least render it uninhabitable, without splitting any atoms. More »

2:30 PM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By charliejane
1,145 views, 2 comments