Featured Blog Posts – October 2011 Archive (19)

Pumpkin Slashing, Sexy Watermelons, and Zombie Tools with Jayne

I which Jayne Cobb destroys some pumpkins with the guys from Zombie Tools to the music of Dr. Noise.

Little Soldier (the full version) is on Silent Echoes

http://dftba.com/artist/12/Dr-Noise

Zombie Tools

http://www.zombietools.net

Zombie Truth or Fail…

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Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 31, 2011 at 12:24pm — No Comments

Bogus Blog

This is an image blog. It's true! It really is.

Okay, you caught me. It's not really an image blog.

Doctor who themed initialism of awesome! Also, hidden Potter reference.

I am not sure why…

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Added by Clive-φ-Davidson ImagesNM on October 31, 2011 at 6:53am — 1 Comment

Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars

In which John reads the first chapter of his new book, The Fault in Our Stars, to you in lieu of making a real video today. I hope you like it, and that it's not too awkward hearing a 34-year-old man pretend to be 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster.

You can preorder your signed copy of The Fault in Our Stars at your local independent bookstore:… Continue

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 28, 2011 at 2:12pm — No Comments

7,000,000,000 People

The world population, as you watch this video, is about to hit an arbitrary landmark. But, still, the growing world population is not an insignificant issue, nor is the explosion in resource use in the developing world. But overall...I'm optimistic.

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 27, 2011 at 4:38am — 2 Comments

Signing Psychosis Takes Over

In which John goes well and truly mad from signing and then discusses the ruins of Indianapolis.

Indianapolis: I'll be reading from The Fault in Our Stars on November 1st at 7:30 PM at Clowes Memorial Hall at Butler University. The event is free and open to the public. On 11/11/11, at 11:11 AM, I'll be at the Bean in Chicago along with other people celebrating… Continue

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 25, 2011 at 2:18am — 1 Comment

Green is the Colour of My True Love's Breathalizer

It's true!

You are correct, this is not a photo, but it IS an image, and so I can feature it!

Unfortunately, we only have five images this…

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Added by Clive-φ-Davidson ImagesNM on October 24, 2011 at 6:31am — 1 Comment

Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron

In which Hank covers a surprising amount of topics while (for the most part) standing outside of the Anaheim Convention Center surrounded by WoW players.

The Abundance of Covers Contest…

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Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 21, 2011 at 3:14pm — 1 Comment

DFTBA: John & Hank's Awesome Adventure

Hello nerdfighters!

You may or may not remember the posts I've done about this project being made by some nerdfighters.

The first blog post is called 'Project X', that I wrote back in February, and it's the one where I knew somethings but couldn't tell other people. The second blog post is called '…

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Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 21, 2011 at 3:00pm — 4 Comments

Question Wed--THE COVER OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS!

Nerdfighteria is designing the never cover for An Abundance of Katherines! http://www.anabundanceofcovers.com

The Fault in Our Stars has a beautiful cover designed by the brilliant Rodrigo Corral. I hope you like it, too. The entire first printing of The Fault in Our Stars will be autographed by me. You can… Continue

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 19, 2011 at 11:07am — 8 Comments

VidCon 2012!!!

Sorry folks who can't come, but I had to make a video announcing VidCon 2012, I just HAD TO!

We'll be uploading VidCon 2011 footage to http://www.youtube.com/vidcon very soon.

Check out Tom Milsom:… Continue

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 17, 2011 at 6:08pm — No Comments

THE NAME OF THE NING IS WHAT YOU FEAR

Hahaha, references.

You made this with Illustrator? I can't use illustrator. Wait, it wasn't you? Oh, well, it's a great design anyway!

This is wonderful. Finally, a use for all of the…

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Added by Clive-φ-Davidson ImagesNM on October 17, 2011 at 6:06am — 1 Comment

Defying Wadsworth!

Laurena songs on iTunes: http://dft.ba/permafrost

In which John defies the so-called Wadsworth Constant, which maintains that the first 30% of all YouTube videos can safely be skipped, by giving you Halloween pumpkin tips, some quotes from James Joyce's Ulysses, The Fault in Our Stars, his signature, and so… Continue

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 14, 2011 at 10:01am — 2 Comments

Coming Out and Sperm Spikes

In which Hank talks about his personal struggles with his sexuality and confusing his gender identity with his sexual orientation...and he does it all using quantum mechanics as an analogy...but only after he tells John the most fascinating thing about traumatic insemination in bed bugs.

THIS VIDEO WILL BLOW YOUR MIND:…

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Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 13, 2011 at 12:54am — 3 Comments

Animal Mating and Librarian Talking

You can play lots of Truth or Fails here: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail

In which John goes to a meeting of Medical Librarians and then shares with you a truth or fail on the subject of animal mating. Okay, I have to get back to looking for TFiOS errors now.

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 10, 2011 at 2:43pm — 20 Comments

An Image Blog divided against itself cannot stand.

I have officially been a Ningmaster for over a year, my first image blog was on October 4th of last year, so it has been 371 days... Also, the date today is 10/10/11! Lets celebrate for no good reason! Wait, we are nerds, maybe we should cerebrate instead! Ah, see what I did there? No? Oh, well I guess my puns have not improved over the last year... On with the blog!

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Added by Clive-φ-Davidson ImagesNM on October 10, 2011 at 4:52am — No Comments

Steve Jobs and a Song

In which Hank sings a song that was written to a track that's a loop that was made with the sounds that he made with his mouth. And then he talks for a bit about the glory of not being special, and the death of Steve Jobs.

You can still make a beat here:
http://www.star.me/fun/question/?pid=31886

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 7, 2011 at 12:55pm — No Comments

SIGNING MADNESS

Preorder The Fault in Our Stars at Amazon http://dft.ba/-tfios, B&N http://dft.ba/-tfiosbn, at your local bookstore http://dft.ba/-tfiosindie, or in the UK http://dft.ba/-tfiosUK I WILL SIGN ALL THE BOOKS.

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Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 5, 2011 at 1:26pm — No Comments

The LHC and Alex's Survey

In which Hank takes Alex Day's survey and talks about his interview this morning with Joe Incandela of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

Joe is a pretty famous particle physicist, so it was amazing to get his take on the reality of quantum mechanics, the flaws of the standard model, and the realities of running the largest scientific experiment… Continue

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on October 4, 2011 at 2:42am — No Comments