Featured Blog Posts – June 2012 Archive (18)

One thing I have noticed when it comes to Nerdfighters is that, as a community we are well connected to one another. Problem is that the site itself is the main way people stay in contact. So when something happens for example the Ning deciding they want to work on maintenance when it is most inconvenient for the rest of us, that contact shuts down. I received around about 43 e-mail's asking about what happened to the site. It was frustrating to have to e-mail everybody back with the…

In which Hank does not show you lots of clips from VidCon because that would just be mean...also because there's no way he'd have enough time to edit a vlog like that in time to put it online.

Good lord I am tired, but VidCon is awesome, I wish you were all here.

In which John explains why he is always taken aside and searched when attempting to enter the great nation of Canada due to The Insufficient Funds Incident of 1995.

I'm at the Perimeter Institute in Canada learning how to get smarter by watching YouTube. Here are some channels you should subscribe to:

Crash Course:…

There should be a lot of it in this image blog. I DON'T PROMISE ANYTHING. Okay, sure, I do promise it. Why not.

I thought this was cute. I still think it cute.…

In conjunction with the news articles going up, keeping our members informed with what's going on around the world and so on, I feel I'm obligated to hark on about the happenings in ye auld Britain. Now, if anyone's older than their teens, and they happen to be British; you know what the Tories were up to when they were around last time. Old Maggie never got the name Iron lady without reason, after all. She busted the unions, sold off our privatised industries and generally fecked the…

In which John solves the problems of nerdfighters. Easy ways to be nerdfightastic:

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Fahrenheit 451: AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE or…

Listen Jena, I know how much you enjoyed The Hunger Games books. You devoured those things. Then, when we went to Barnes and Noble to try and find something else you could have that much fun reading, we found ourselves unwilling to enter the "Teen Fiction/Fantasy" section. The implication, however wrong, was that to read these books you had to be either a fantasy nerd or a teenager. Suddenly you felt the books you wanted were less than respectable. Something you'd…

Do not eat them!

Ugly, terrifying, and brilliant. Much like a good thriller novel.

This is ingenious. Your lucky friend. }8¬P…

***Fahrenheit 451: http://dft.ba/-montag - read along or else quite a few of our videos won't make any sense this summer!***

In which Hank talks about Flinch (http://dft.ba/-flinch) and Foo Camp and takes a very VERY cold shower.

This video, I admit, isn't terribly well held together, I go…

A quick update of the situation in the Eurozone.

Spain has been promised a bailout of around 100 billion euros by 17 Eurozone countries.

These are the Spanish bankers:

And these are the Spanish…

Allow me to make one thing clear and simple.

No sexism.

What by the great pizza, makes people think that this is acceptable behaviour? Oh, it was just a joke was it? You were getting your daily doses of 'lulz' is it? Please, don't make me laugh in utter despair at the lack of humanity in your empathy-less nonsense. You want to create drama, use…

A Thoughts from Places video in which John Green attends Book Expo America in New York City, also known as BEA, where he thinks about celebrity and secular worship after meeting the super-cool Chris Colfer from Glee, as well as some of his favorite writers, including Darin Strauss and Jeffrey Eugenides. Also discussed are writers M. T. Anderson, Shannon Hale, Cassandra…

WELCOME TO MY DOMAIN. MWAHAHAHAHAHA.

Ah, a delicious version of the TARDIS, I dare say I would enjoy devouring it. Especially if The Doctor was inside.

Oh, what a WONDERFUL IDEA. I shall have an ARMY OF EVIL FRUIT MEN. Hmmm. Maybe that is a little…

In which Hank gives some stellar productivity tips so that you can use your time more efficiently, be a more effective person and, also, stop having fun!



Co-star - Michael Aranda:…

In which John answers a wide variety of your questions as he travels to beautiful New York City for Book Expo America, where a rope dangling from outside his skyscraper hotel room window terrifies him. Issues addressed include romantic relationships, the cover of An Abundance of Katherines, the banning of Looking for Alaska, favorite YouTubers and Beatles albums, etc.

Do it.

Battered mutts!

I don't even.

Words are for mortals.…

In which Hank and John answer questions from Table Topics (http://dft.ba/-2JZe) in Seaside Florida. Also, there is a really adorable squirrel. Herein we discuss product placement, Diet Dr. Pepper, time travel, marriage, nerdfighteria, psychics, sentence fragments, parties, and farts.

I would hate for it too seem like I'm beating an old rug to death, over and over again; but alas this needs brought to your attention. Now, what you believe is up to you - As long as it doesn't include hating needlessly -, I wont force my beliefs or views onto you, I also wont encourage and/or indoctrinate my beliefs onto young, impressionable children. More so, definitely not when said views are simple and pure hate directed at other people for no good reason whatsoever. As it were…