I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

  • http://twitter.com/BaronVonSnake Pokemon Otis

    A Møøse once bit my sister … No realli!

    • nmcvaugh

      Ouch! Møøse bites kan be pretti nasti.

      • TWX

        We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.

        • Boundegar

          De Düva…

  • GuyInMilwaukee

    She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge – her brother-in-law – an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: “The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink”.

    • ldobe

      “The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink”

      Whenever I drive by the dentist’s or see a dental appointment on the calendar I always think this line to myself and chuckle

      And how *Huge* could his Mølars really be?

      Damn, now I’m thinking of Oddities from the science channel.  I hate that show.  I don’t consider myself squeamish, but it really tests me, so I try to just avoid it and be happy, instead of lying awake at night with images of various preserved polycephalic animals in my head.

  • TWX

    We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.

  • http://twitter.com/the_damned_fool the damned fool

    Møøse trained by TUTTE HERMSGERVORDENBROTBORDA

  • http://twitter.com/joeybladb joe k.

    That was a møose. Need more aquavite to fully appreciate.

  • DisGuest

    I’m disappointed. I thought the moose was going to be enthusiastic. 

    • xzzy

      There was some curiosity, and what looked like a foot stomp towards the end (which is a good sign that you need to be retreating). 

      But I think the poor old moose knew it had no effective attack against the buzzing bird, and mostly wanted to be left alone.

      • DisGuest

         I agree. I was joking, but the excitement from the crew was “meh” for me. I’m sure the language barrier was part of it, but an enthusiastic moose, now that would have been da bomb. :)

  • videobored

    I’m admittedly new to the whole quad-copter thing, but holy moly, I was hella impressed with the range and degree of control the guys had with the thing. Now I want one, like NOW.

    –
    Large møøse on the left hand side of the screen in the third scene from the end, given a thorough grounding in Latin, French and “O” Level Geography by: BO BENNER
    –

  • http://www.fieldsovgravity.com/ Garymon

    On first viewing the video reminded me of a Iamamiwhoami video (sans naked singer). So I started her song “B” on Spotify, then started video. Her final words in the song sync up perfectly with when the quad turns and fly’s back. 

  • awjt

    Are these the same guys who tried to jump off the deck through the frozen swimming pool?

    • http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty

      No, they were a different breed of foreigner

    • Pathmanson

       No, these guy’s country was invaded by the grandfathers of the frözen swümmingpööl guys in 1940. That explains a lot of strange behaviour of nörwegians, i think…

  • Kenmrph

    One of the Norwegians has a distinctly Gervaisian laugh.

  • http://twitter.com/snarp Sarah Pin

    Because of Scandinavia And The World, I just assume that all Norwegians sound exactly like this every time they see any kind of animal. “OH MAN OH MAN IT’S A SQUIRREL LOOK AT ITS TAIL THAT IS *SUCH* A GREAT TAIL”

  • AnRek

    Take a look at THIS moose-video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jku_2-xs3Gw

  • allium

    “Rocky…is that you? My God, what did those Pottsylvanian bastards do to you?”

    It was my own government that did this, I think in jagged letters ten feet tall. Of course after the cyborging I can only talk in Bluetooth, 802.11, and half a dozen classified military frequencies, and I left my loudspeaker module back at the base during my escape, so all Agent B hears are the chainsaw buzz of my rotors. He only knows it’s me because the boys under Groom Lake painted a cartoon of…what I was…on my fuselage. As a joke. They thought it was hilarious.

    So I yaw back and forth, hoping he’ll interpret that as a “no”.

    Steam rises from B’s nostrils as he tosses his massive, antlered head back. “When I see Fearless Leader again. I’m gonna pull a can of whoop-ass out of my hat!”

    By the Great Acorn Above, he’s dense. I dispense some eka-meth from my internal drug reservoirs to focus; two point eight seconds later I come to a decision and warm up the excimer.

    “But wait a second…the Admiral told me you were dead! He spoke at your funeral! He…” B trails off as he sees words of fire appear vertically in the bark of the trees in front of him, one word per trunk. My targeting system is very precise – assassination tools generally are.

    “PEACHFUZZ BURNED ME. CALL CLOYD AND GIDNEY.”

    Two hours later and thirty miles to the west, B paws at a nondescript hillock of frozen earth to uncover the squirt transmitter we buried there after the Upsidasium Affair. As dirt flies into the air, I idly wonder whether there’s room for a squirrel brain in a Metal-Munching Mouse chassis, and how long it would take to get through a certain flag officer’s sternum with its gleaming titanium teeth.

    • smut clyde

       I was not previously aware that Charlie Stross was commenting on Boing Boing threads.

    • BDiamond

       This is genius!

  • grimatongueworm

    Hey……copter……..leave that moose alone.

  • DataShade

    The concept of aliens coming to earth in UFOs just to shine lights on people or mess with their heads now seems much more credible.

  • JhmL

    And the ‘moose’ followed them into the camp. The aftermath you can see in ‘The Thing’ (1982).

  • http://twitter.com/metal_max Max Allan

    Impressive quality on the good camera. I imagine if he works for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, he gets some good toys to play with! If they can get that quality from a quadcopter, I can imagine that traditional dolly and wire filming techniques are going to become obsolete fairly soon.

    Am I the only one thinking that in the same way as we are seeing a lot of helmetcam footage coming out on YouTube, we’re going to start seeing a lot more random amateur quadcoptercam footage? 

  • http://twitter.com/eirikso Eirik Solheim

    I have updated my blog with some more info on this clip. The tech etc: http://eirikso.com/2013/01/09/moose-vs-quadcopter/

  • Tomhung

    Using such aids for hunting in Idaho is illegal.

  • salvagesalvage

    Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy, we’re nearly there.