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A comic look at the history of typos

Click to view Ever wondered where typos first came from? Well, wonder no longer. Let the ImmerseOrDie players take you back… This short video (1...

Plot Yoyos – You Can Never Go Back
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The first-page idiot test
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Kicking Immersion Up To Eleven
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For Readers

Soft-serve Sci-Fi

Over the course of my lifetime, science fiction has gone from a niche-market storyform aimed at geeks and propeller-heads to a cultural juggernaut con...

Reports from other lands: The Haunting of Hill House
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When memory fails
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Gnomileshi boy in Gash-Garnok village
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The snarky llama is back!

The most ambitious Karsten and Babette tale yet. And possibly the funniest, especially if you like your humor dark and twisted. Just when it looked li...

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Karsten and Babette are at it again
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It’s coming!
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Karsten and Babette Episode #3 now available.
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Creativity Hacks

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Dopplerender: A turbo boost for Blender animation rendering

Exopod in action

Exopod: The flat-pack display stand for books

NordicTrack without keyboard

NordicTray: an integrated keyboard table for the NordicTrack treadmill

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PressureDiver: a sensor to plumb the depths of saxophone...
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Creativity Hack: Studio Light Mast
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Reduce your tool clutter to crank out the words
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    You asked for it, so now it’s happening. A curated page of the very best indie fiction, as sel...
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    Today we see that a prologue involving the same cast, setting, and time period as the rest of the st...
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    Metal Chest, by Chris ...

    September 6 - 4 comments
    Today we see that smooth and interesting prose isn’t enough. The narration also has to suit th...
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    Need your feedback

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    I posted this the other day, but buried it at the end of a longer note, and now I’m realizing ...

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