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Surf’s way, way up: Sea-level rise, explained
It's choose your own adventure: Sea level rise apocalypse edition! Here’s your chance to decide what the future will look like.
WATCH: Xelle's 'Hologram' Video
The trio—JC Cassis, Rony G, Mimi Imfurst—created the longest 'choose your own adventure' music movie for their single read more
Hiring a Relative Without Ruining Your Relationship
Many entrepreneurs choose to hire their own family members -- one of the upsides to running your own business. You can create a culture at work that shows customers that family is your first priority. However, a family-run business can be a slippery slope and can lead to tense relationships with relatives.
Her Girl Friday goes West
BY KAREN ZRAICK Her Girl Friday, a Brooklyn-based group that produces events for women in non-fiction storytelling, is heading west next week for our first-ever San Francisco gathering: "CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: How Media Innovators Bring New Projects to Life" at 111 Minna Gallery, with...
First Drive: 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel
Choose Your Own Adventure... But Choose Wisely
Jeep has got you covered. We can say this without even having to know what it is you want, because there's hardly an option or configuration that you won't find in the 2014 Grand Cherokee. Show More Summary
PAR Editorial: The Maze of Games: the puzzle novel I wrote eighteen years too early
Mike Selinker: The Maze of Games puts a fascinating twist on Choose Your Own Adventure-style storytelling, by making the story itself solvable, like a puzzle. Creator Mike Selinker calls it a "puzzle novel." It's an intriguing concept that's made almost 10x its goal on Kickstarter, but 18 years ago, Selinker couldn't find anyone who was interested. Show More Summary
Geek Hoarders
Back when I was in third grade, my father bought me an interactive fiction computer game called Zork. You were the main character in the story, and it was played somewhat like a computer version of Choose Your Own Adventure without set choices at the end. For instance, the game begins: You are standing in [...]
What’s your favourite moment of the Welcome to UC video?
The University of Canberra has created a truly wonderful welcome video and placed it as a gift unto the nations on YouTube. There are some magical moments. Below is my own favourite at 2:37. For the pint of your choosing and/or the glory of being declared a winner, have a go at finding something funnier!
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Case of the Terrible Trigger Shot
This post originally ran in 2007. I am re-running it because I wanted to reference Choose Your Own Adventures in a future blog post. So what better way to explain it than to make you do one if you’re unfamiliar with the process. Plus it was so much work to create it. It deserves another [...]
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (ISRG): Report Calls Usefulness of Robotic Surgery Into Question
If you are a woman and you have the choice between a doctor removing your uterus with her own hands, or having a robot perform the procedure that allows for more precise movements during the procedure, which would you choose? Over the years, more and more woman have been choosing the robotic option — specifically, [...]
LEGO The Lord of the Rings LEGO Customizer
Head to Bag End in LEGO The Lord of the Rings to access your very own LEGO Customizer, where you can choose from tons of options to make your own LEGO character!
After the Wedding: Registry Favorites and Regrets
Miss Lemur recently mentioned how confusing it is to navigate the world of registries—how do you choose among 50 different toasters? If you haven’t lived on your own for long, how do you know what you’re going to need in…
Chloë Sevigny Wears Weird Well
Chloë freakin’ Sevigny in some clothes she found in your grandpa’s attic, everyone! Listen, this is not a look I would choose for my own, but you gotta love Chloë for wearing consistently bizarre, ill-fitting garments and still managing to remain one of the foremost “It girls” of the past two decades. Nobody is ever really [...]
How To Choose The Best Android Keyboard For Your Own Needs
If there’s one reason to pick Android over any other type of smartphone, it would be customizability. Whether you’re looking for different kinds of apps, themes, or ROMs, you’re always just one click away from changing the way your phone operates. Show More Summary
JumpView is What a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Movie Really Looks Like
You’re about to be eaten by a pterodactyl. Do you climb down the cliffside using a vine or try to hide out in a small cave? Your answer is important because it’ll determine whether you end up in a Jurassic beast’s bowels or not. But you can always hold the page with your finger while you check to see if your choice gets you digested to death. Show More Summary
Oscars: As Final Deadline Approaches Academy Urges Members To Vote; Studios Launch Last-Minute Ad Blitz
Okay Academy members, this is your last chance to vote.
And by all indications from my own admittedly unscientific survey over the weekend there are many who are choosing to wait , despite the Academy’s emails encouraging them to vote early in this final round. Show More Summary
Choose your own adventure: Authors turn to Kickstarter to fund their stories
Game designer Mike Selinker had a dream back in 1995—to bring his puzzle solving fantasy adventure, a book called The Maze of Games, to market. It was, he believed, a story that Narnia fanatics would eat up. After being snatched by a frightening gatekeeper, two siblings, Samuel and Collleen Quiace, scramble around late-19th century England trying to escape. The...
Pulp-O-Mizer
With the help of the Pulp-O-Mizer you can create your own retro sci-fi pulp magazine cover. You can choose between 23 magazine covers. Pick your background, foreground, and characters. Then add text, scenes, colors and gradients. The Presurfer
Paranoid Movie Watches You Watch It and Changes to Your Liking
If Choose Your Own Adventure books weren't your go-to in fourth grade there's something seriously wrong with you. But you're going to have another chance to dictate the creative process thanks to a movie that chooses its ending based on sensor data from the audience. More »
Second Life creator Linden Lab launches Versu, an AI-powered iPad take on ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’
While it’s best known for once-trendy virtual world Second Life, Linden Lab has a more diverse roster than just that. Witness, for example, Versu, a new ‘interactive fiction’ app that... Keep reading ?