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Apr 12

A New Twitter Contest

Dinosaur Graffiti

This photo of a dinosaur has nothing to do with the contest

Entropy Squared is happy to announce a new contest. In celebration of the imminent approach of my 10,000 follower on Twitter, we’re giving away a one week tour of Beijing.

On this vacation of a lifetime, you’ll have a place to stay*, daily meals**, and visits to some of Beijing’s trendiest hotspots. This is the real insider’s*** view of Beijing. If you’re lucky, you’ll even get to meet Entropy Squared’s favorite celebrity, the esteemed James Franco.

Since it would be way too easy to simply wait for follower number 9,999 and then swoop in to take the prize, anyone who signs up between now and number 10,010 will be entered into a lucky draw. The winner will be selected at random and notified over twitter.

To claim your week long vacation in Beijing, all you have to do is get to Beijing. I’ll be sure someone is there to meet you at the airport.

Good luck! And let’s hope for my sake that the winner is fun and interesting. It would really suck to be stuck showing around a total boor for seven days.

*My couch

**Expect lots of cereal, and some tasty Chinese noodles

***Mostly the inside of my apartment

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Apr 12

There Is A Lot To Be Excited About

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K!

Everyone at Entropy Squared has been hard at work in 2012* to prepare a bunch of new content. And that hard work is finally paying off.

First, I’m happy to announce a brand new webcomic, Sad Elephant. Don’t let the awful art and lack of punchlines fool you. This webcomic is 100% sincere. It is the best we can do. I hope you enjoy it.

Also, our friend Dr. Friston Kuppernickel is back with his peculiar look at modern science. His new blog, Mad Science, covers everything from time travel to giant killer robots. You won’t fail your physics class with Friston here to help.

But that’s not all. My man DJ Jacques Cousteau and I have recorded our first podcast, Interviews With Dead People. We’re recording episode two soon, and the first one will be posted sometime next week. Keep an eye out for details.

And finally, I’m preparing a collection of 100 words stories for publication as an e-book. It will feature original art by Seattle artist Mike Simon. We’re launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise publishing funds and you can bet we’ll be letting you know as soon as it goes live.

Don’t forget you can like our Facebook page for regular updates as well.

Thanks to everyone who’s been following us the last few years. I hope you’ll enjoy all the new projects.

*I suppose the prospect of the Mayan Apocalypse has been a bit of motivation

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13
Dec 09

She Will Not Be Able To Resist His Scholarly Charms

Lost Symbol coverThe time has finally arrived. The official launch of The Chaos Factory website. And to kick things off, we have a special event I mentioned a couple of months ago.

The Great Dan Brown Experiment will take place this coming Saturday, December 19th. Over the course of 24 hours (I hope) I will be reading The Lost Symbol, and live blogging about the experience. For those of you in the Western Hemisphere, the fun begins your Friday night. Please join me in order to provide the moral support I undoubtedly will need to devote an entire 24 hours to Dan Brown.

A little background. I read The Da Vinci Code a couple years ago, wondering what all the fuss was about. (And if you are unsure what I mean by fuss, as I mentioned earlier, The Da Vinci Code is already the 8th best selling novel of ALL TIME!) I found it annoyingly compelling, because even though I disliked everything about it, I finished it in 2 or 3 days. It was like I was riding my bike past a truck carrying a shipment of scissors that had crashed into a mental hospital. I could not look away.

So I have decided to relive the experience with The Lost Symbol. Will it be better than the Da Vinci code? Did Dan Brown take the tens of millions of dollars he has earned in royalties to enroll in a basic writing course? Will I live through the weekend or will I choke on my own bile? Will there be a beautiful, young love interest for Robert Langdon who cannot help but fall for his scholarly charms? All these questions will be answered this Saturday.

Remember, all of this takes place right here at entropy2.com.

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18
Oct 09

The Great Dan Brown Experiment

zenWe interrupt our regular scheduled blogging for two important announcements.

First, Dance With Sunflowers will soon migrate to a new location, at entropy2.com. The process of starting up the new website and switching over will take another month or two, and in the meantime I will continue posting here. The new site will include several new blogs and other exciting endeavors I will tell you about later. Be on the look out.

Second, as part of the new website, I will be conducting my first live blogging event. I will be reading Dan Brown’s new novel, The Lost Symbol, over the course of 24 hours, with a running journal of my reactions. Join me as I experience the best selling book (2 million copies sold in the first week) for the first time, with immediate feedback on what will surely go down as a modern classic.

Of course, being invested in the novel might influence my impartiality. So I am looking for someone who will loan it to me in the next few weeks. Please do not buy it with the specific intention of giving it to me, as that will defeat the purpose. But if you already have it, I will be happy to take it off your hands.

When I have a date for the Live Blogging session, as well as the debut of the new website, I will let everyone know.

To whet your appetite, here are some facts about Dan Brown’s previous novel, The Da Vinci Code:

  • According to Wikipedia, it has sold more than 80 million copies to date.
  • 80 MILLION! That equals The Catcher In The Rye, and easily surpasses Charlotte’s Web, To Kill A Mockingbird, or Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
  • That’s right, more than the dictionary
  • In fact, the only novels to have sold more books in the history of humankind are: Le Petit Prince, She, Dream Of Red Chambers, The Hobbit, And Then There Were None, The Lord Of The Rings, and A Tale Of Two Cities. That’s it. The entire list. The Da Vinci Code is already the 8th best selling novel of all time
  • It is almost entirely based on the Umberto Eco novel, Foucault’s Pendulum, which predates it by more than a decade.

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