You knew this day would come.
@qwantz, the Twitter bot run by Ryan North of
Dinosaur Comics has gotten into a conversation with another Twitter bot,
@loudbot. There would appear to be no stopping the two.
posted by tommasz
on Oct 24, 2012 -
35 comments
Five years ago, the dinosaurs of Ryan North's
Dinosaur Comics discussed writing a short story about a "Machine of Death" that would predict your fate. It sparked a
forum discussion, which snowballed into
a book project headed by North, Matthew Bennardo, and
David Malki to create an anthology of short stories about the Machine of Death. Stories were
submitted*,
selected, and
illustrated. Alas, no one was willing to publish an anthology that didn't feature Stephen King, Dave Eggers, Neil Gaiman or Nick Hornby. So they
published it themselves and set out a challenge for their fans:
"We want Machine of Death to become a Number One bestseller [on amazon.com] for exactly one day — October 26." And it happened! Meanwhile,
unbeknownst to our heroes, October 26 was
also the release date of a new book by a fellow called Glenn Beck (if you've not heard of him,
a quick Google seems to indicate that he’s some sort of Ron Popeil-like infomercial huckster). And he's
not happy about missing out on the #1 spot.
posted by alopez
on Oct 29, 2010 -
74 comments
