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Want to Be a Summer Intern for io9?
School's almost out, and io9 is looking for a summer intern who wants to fill in those lazy summer months with frenzied research into science fiction and mad science. An intern works 5 - 10 hours per week doing research, fact-checking, and contacting sources in the science and entertainment industries for story ideas and information. You must be detail-oriented, obsessed with science and/or science fiction, and able to work very quickly. More »
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Meet a Bunch of New io9ers
Yes, we have assimilated more autonomous beings into the collective using our io9 brain implants. Now it's time for you to find out who will be installing your implant upgrades and filling this blog with new and strange information. We've got a couple of new contributors, and some new columnists too. Meet the new io9ers below. More »
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Meet io9 Intern Nivair Gabriel
Say hello to Nivair Gabriel, who just received her io9 implant and started as our spring intern. She comes to us from MIT, where she's working on a degree in aerospace engineering. Not only has she done multivariable analysis of design factors involved in constructing a large-scale, remote-controlled airplane, but she's also working on becoming a fantasy/scifi writer. She'll be helping out with research, fact-checking, and time machine quality assurance.
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io9 Is Looking for a Few Good Writers
io9 is continuing its quest for domination of the timeline, and to do that we are hiring for two positions: entertainment reporter and science writer. These are full-time positions, and will involve no alien implantations. If you are interested in learning more, see our previous post about the details on what these jobs involve. Apply ASAP!
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Meet Graphic Designer Stephanie Fox
io9 has been looking for a graphic designer for a while, and lucky for us Stephanie Fox has stepped up to help out! She immediately caught our eye by professing to love infographics, which is a love we share. And she's the person who created the awesome infographic we ran last week about the relationship between dystopian movies and economic cycles. She'll also be designing a lot of other stuff for us, so look for the credit that says "Illustration by Stephanie Fox" next time you see something that looks beautiful on io9. Check out more of Stephanie's work on her site, Bezier Labs.
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Write for io9!
At last, we're ready to bring in some new writers at io9. We're looking for people to fill two roles: entertainment writer and science writer. For the entertainment writer, we want somebody who can cover the entertainment side of science fiction, who has contacts in the scifi film, TV, and/or game industries, and can break news for us. The ideal candidate is a reporter, pounding the pavement and digging up stuff nobody else has — somebody who will go on sets, go to parties and junkets and screenings. We prefer someone who lives in the Los Angeles or New York areas. Must eat, breathe, and live science fiction, and a background in real science would be a bonus. Read on for more details. More »
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io9 Party at WonderCon Was Full of Craziness
io9 and Last Gasp Press co-sponsored a benefit for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund on Saturday night at WonderCon, and it was smashing. A ton of comic book artists came and drew at a table while we got drunk, and then CBLDF auctioned the art off to raise money for the fight for free speech in the comic book world. Here's a "before" picture of your intrepid editors (l-r that's Charlie Jane, Annalee, Graeme, and Kevin). Some after photos below. More »
11:50 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Annalee Newitz
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Latest by JahFurry: Aww criminy. Wish I coulda been there, looks like twas a doozie... more »
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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!
io9 Comments -- Now With Video!
If you include a Youtube link in a comment, the clip will automatically be included with your text. Now you can wow us with your own found footage. The feature is still in beta, so your feedback is appreciated.
If you include a Youtube link in a comment, the clip will automatically be included with your text. Now you can wow us with your own found footage. The feature is still in beta, so your feedback is appreciated.
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Let the Machine Overlords Hear Your Cry in Our Demographic Survey
It's been nearly a month since io9 lowered its shields and initiated signal transmission. Now we want to know more about you, our readers. We've posted a brief demographic survey to harvest your innermost thoughts — but we don't want to know anything privacy-invading like your address or phone number. If you fill it out, you will be entered to win some credits with Amazon. So what will we do with the information on this survey, other than feed it to our machine overlords? More »
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io9's Official Spoiler Policy
There's no doubt that io9 needed a spoiler policy. So, we surveyed over 1000 readers about their opinions. Then people debated it in comments, and meanwhile offline I was arguing with Charlie about it. Although Charlie writes the "morning spoiler" roundup, she is very strict in her no-spoiler-without-warning policy. I am a bit more lax. In last week's vote about io9's spoiler policy, I was one of the pathetic 4.3 percent who voted for spoilers anywhere on the page, without warning. Now I recognize that I am a freakish outcast among nerds, and that io9's spoiler policy needs to be a bit less radical than my own point of view. Without further ado, here is io9's current spoiler policy - by popular demand. More »
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Meet the Bloggers at io9
I'm Annalee Newitz, editor of io9, and I'll be your pilot on this ride across time and space and your imagination and all that crap. The first time I saw Star Wars I got so excited that I threw up. I learned about sex from reading John Varley novels about creatures with three sets of genitals living inside a giant cyborg orbiting Saturn. When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters. When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements. When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm. I love Octavia Butler, Ken MacLeod, David Cronenberg, Ursula Le Guin, Mike Mignola, Joss Whedon, and watching things explode. And now I have a Scooby Gang. More »
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What Is an io9?
io9s were marketed as cheap time machines in the 2070s. They were actually just low-grade input/output devices for the brain that tuned tachyon waves and gave users vivid images of possible futures. The things were so addictive, and drove so many people insane, that io9s were eventually outlawed. Today the word is just slang. io9ers are the early implanters who obsessively upgrade themselves with beta tech. People who tweak out on buggy brainware are sometimes said to have "gone io9." Science fiction writer Ken MacLeod has another term for io9ers. He calls them rapture fuckers.
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Become a Voice in the Machine with io9 Comments
You are not just a puny human to io9 — you're also a valuable member of our community. That's why we've made it easy for you to comment obsessively on every post you read, and to make friends with your fellow commenters. More »
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