Countdown Timer

Posted on by scott

So a fan sent me this litle doo-hickey. Feel free to steal it and stick it on your websites and desktops.

The easiest way to put this on your own site is to click on OPTIONS, then choose GET EMBED CODE. Choose your platform, then drop it into your website. The supported platforms include HTML, MySpace, Xanga, Blogger, and a bunch more.

Enjoy!

134 thoughts on “Countdown Timer”

  13. FOOL! but im still at school and cant put it on until i get home! *runs off disires* *still running* *still running* ok that felt good.

    hey Nanner-wa…where have you been? i was chatting to you for a while. then all of a sudden you and your myspace dissapeared! spooky-making.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  17. AHHHHHH!!!!!!!! SO BUBBLY- HAPPY- ICY-MAKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    😀 that count down thing is SOOOOO FAWSOME!!!! I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!! *leaps into air and punches up arm* *hits ceiling in excitement* ow!

  20. I can’t wait for October 2nd except I want to have all of your books from amazon to come so they can be signed on the 3rd of October.
    Do you know if they are having tickets?

  23. Too bad that my computer in my room doesn’t have internet, and that my sis would get SO mad at me if I put that on our desktop. Owll, I’m doing it anyways. Actualy, I forgot that she likes the Uglies, so she’ll like it!!

    OU OU OU!!! 🙂 I have new pics of the Kitties!! We have to give them homes tomorrow. Sob sob. But these are the last times that you will see Tally, Zane, Shay, And David in kitten form!! Click on my name to see um.

    Kadie-Wa

  25. wait, if u don’t want to put it on a myspace, how can u put it on like ur desktop or something? must have countdown timer! like the old-fashioned (paper with day numbers typed on it) one that i have for city of ashes. 221 days! but extras is much, much sooner!!! can’t WAIT!!!

  28. I know, she has reflecting eyes. It’s kinda creepy if you go to see them at night, and she is like walking around. That’s Tally, by the way. The one with the creepy eyes. I just hope that Scott sees them1! I named them after his books!!

    Kadie-Wa

  29. i want more info on scott going to chicago… times place if it cost anything etc… i need to know so i can persuade mom… must go and book signed!!!

  30. yepyepyep. those kitties are sooooo cute! i loooovvvee kittens! but both me AND my dad are allergic! so unhappy-making! but i saw this lady handing out free calico kittens. they were so adorable and tiny! and i was like: “can we have one?!!?” and my mom was like: “no your allergic.” how unfair-making is THAT!?!?!?!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  31. oh! today i found this new word in my pocket dictionary. i enjoy reading the dictionary when im bored, searching for 13 letter words. and the word is…*drumrooooollllll* RHIZOMORPHOUS! it means…to be shaped like a root. totally awesome huh?!?!? its kind of hard to use it in everyday talk, but ive been using it just about evry other sentence all day!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  36. Grr…I downloaded the widget but it just shows the cover and the top half of the count down but not all of it. Grr…

    Cool all the same, though!

  38. i was just talking to the friend that i told you about that switches shoes with me. or she did. all of a sudden she wont trade! but just now i was telling her how i was gonna see Scott-la on October 11th and have him sign everything rite? so she was like: “maybe you could take me with you” shes only just started Specials. shes really bad at pretty-talk. its really dizzy-making listening to her try to do it. tho she rarely does. so then i was like: “take you with me to what?” and she was like: “the Scott thing” THE SCOTT THING?!!?!? WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?!?!? Scott-la is like a legend and this is a once in a lifetime offer for me and she calls it THE SCOTT THING?!?!?!?! she can make me SO OUCHING!!!!!!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  39. LOL. to bad he doesn’t come to my country. Otherwise I will surely ask him to sign PRETTIES & SPECIALS!(i haven buy UGLIES yet but i am going to..though I have read the Uglies trilogy.)

    I didn’t realise that it’s just 17 days more! But when the book comes out, my end of year exams will be starting soon..(my end of year exams is starting on 8 Oct.) 🙁 but at least i have EXTRAS to cheer me up! 🙂

  40. where are u from +-+miko kagome+-+??????? and lizzy-wa, do u ever STOP commenting. it seems like ur like on all the time….. (?) 😛

  42. yeah, me too. when you’re taking…let me count…four honors classes i was drowning in homework. though that may bring up the question of why i’m commenting in the middle of a friday morning…..because i’m home sick. time to catch up with the rest of the world.

    and i downloaded it for the desktop, and it just shows the top for me too! what’s the point? i want the countdown! and when i tried to fix it, it freaked out and lost the picture and ended up with ballons for unknown reasons.

    i went to go meet scott one time for a so yesterday thing and i brought my friend who’d just read peeps and lorded it over my other friend, then let her come with us.

    sadly, though that was after i read uglies trilogy and all the midnighters books, it was before i bought my own copies (i’m big with libraries) so i didn’t have a chance to get them signed. i got my copy of peeps signed though.

  44. soo ahhh-mazing. *squees* you know that at the Henrietta Hankin Library theres already 7 holds on one copy of extras..and it didnt even come out yet? love it.

  48. ohhh! i so want to join you Nanner-wa…but my parental objects object to my having a myspace. tottally unhappy-making! i think im gonna make a website…hhhhmmmm…

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

    ps…and yes Bri-la…i am on all the time!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛 (again)

  50. I already read Extras, due to a lucky mistake that involved Scott-sama’s computer crashing. (Me calling myself Zee-sensei and calling Scott Scott-sama will make sense once you read Extras). And if you don’t believe me, check back on this sentence once Extras comes out:

    Frizz invented Radical Honesty.

    ~Zee-sensei

  51. who the heck are you? and why do you have access to Scott-la’s (he will always be Scott-la) computer?!?!?!? i need answers man! or lady! or whoever you are! tottally un-fair! and VERY dizzy-making!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙁

  52. Umm…I remember the crash of ’07, but do you work at the computer store or are you bluffing? I’m just as confused as Lizzy-wa.

  53. I am really excited! I will have to hide it while reading it at school tho…my teacher will make fun of me for reading a book thats not a classic. He thinks juinors should be reading more advanced stuff. But i started reading them freshman year and got hooked.

  54. well i say ur teacher sux amy. u should get to read whatever u want. and who says scott’s writing isnt “advanced”???? wats up with that???

    i finally downloaded some of those fun “downloadable extras”. i now hav that bubbly-making pretties picture as the background of our computer. my lil sis wouldnt let me get the extras one cuz she thought it was to “creepy”. 😛 🙁 its not THAT creepy. its FAWSOME! very happy-making.

  55. Me? I don’t have access to Scott-sama’s computer, he sent the second draft of Extras to me by accident. His computer was crashing and he was sending himself backups of Extras. I had sent him a fan-mail a few days earlier so when he started typing in “Scott” his email defaulted to my name instead of his.

    Actually, I didn’t know he was making a book after Specials until AFTER I received Extras. There was an attachment called “extrasdraft2” and I thought it was just extra information about the books that he sent to all fans who mailed him. But then I open it, look at the page count: “You are on page 1 out of 418.” LOL!!

    But I can answer some of your questions about Extras.

    ~Zee-sensei

  57. wait how did zee-sensei get to read extras?!?!?!?! so totally UNFAIR! who r u anyway?????…. *raises eyebrow in suspicion*… hey and doesnt hunter’s friend tina call him “Hunter-sama” or something in So Yesterday??? or am i just being crazy…?…..

  59. Me? I’m technically an extra myself. (If I were in Aya’s city, my face rank would be, like, 800,000. TOTAL extra land.) I’m just a random kid who happened to get lucky. I haven’t read So Yesterday, but I’m going to… someday.

  61. and that is soooooo cool. did scott know? that is hilarious. i would be like so super ecstatic if that happened to me. TOTALLY ICY-MAKING!

  63. ya zee…. REALLY SUPER ICY LUCKY! i mean u probly hav more chance of getting struck by lightening than what happened to u! did u know that u hav a better chance of being struck by lightening than winning the lottery. i know, kinda deppressing-making. but still, interesting.

  64. I sent Scott an email letting him know. This is his reply:

    Are you kidding? I did that?

    That must have been during my great computer crash, when I was trying to send myself a backup of the MS. Sounds like I assumed Mail would default to my name after “sco . . . “, but in its memory-less state, it defaulted to yours. Your name paid off, huh?

    Glad you enjoyed it, though. (Just don’t pass it on, please!)

    -scott

  65. I was pretty shocked myself. I didn’t realize it was his new book ’til after a few chapters! LOL! It was bubbly.

    Oh, and the email and getting sent the book was over half a year ago, I think.

    Ooh, Eclipse! All my friends love that book. I’m only starting Twilight now.

  66. YOU GOT IT SIX MONTHS AGO?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??! UUUUUHHHHGGGG!!!!!! SCOTT-LA DIDNT EVEN REPLY TO MY EMAIL! LET ALONE GIVE ME A COPY OF EXTRAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UUUUHHHHGGGG!!!!!!!!!

    i envy you.
    *shakes head at computer screen, face red and almost breaking the keyboard with how hard shes hitting the letters*

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙁

  68. Wow. I’m really jeolous of you, Zee! That’s amazing. Ha ha, just don’t pull a half blood prince on us and spoil, it, K? I want to wait till october 2nd (just about three more weeks!) to read it!

  72. im only on the forth one. dont totally like them that much. i mean there good books an all but just not my style…yepyepyep. by the way Zee-la…just cause im talking to ya does NOT mean i dont still hate you. cause i do. but the only thing im obsessed with is SCOTT-LA!!!!! even though he didnt reply to my email and sent YOU a copy of EXTRAS when it should have been ME!!!!! but anyway…what if since that was only draft too, he like changed the ending or something? and really instead of the ending being cool, everybody DIES!!!!!! that IS how all great chinese movies end ya no. yepyepyep.

    i still envy you.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  73. ROFL! I feel bad for you now, it was just a lucky coincidence. I wouldn’t have minded if you got the copy instead of me. Once again, you can ask me stuff about it. It was only the second draft, true, so he’ll have changed some things. But I think he’ll keep the ending, the final word of the book is still the same as it is in my draft – “cake”!

  77. oooh…..myyy….GOSH!!!!! zee you are like the luckiest person on the face of this earth.

    but i don’t have any questions about extras. i won’t even read the amazon.com description because i want it to be a complete and utter surprise!

    i just got home from a football game…my school’s team stinks worse than the perfume flooding out of Abercrombie! we lost 7 to 21, and at last year’s homecoming game we lost 0 to 54, so we’ve improved the teeniest bit!

    it was fun though…a bunch of guys in my grade (9th) started their own little tackle football game behind the bleachers, and my two friends and i watched them beat each other up until some some teachers saw them and broke it up. i don’t understand football in the slightest, i just cheer when other people do.

  78. well sooooorrrry! ZEE-SENSEI! i dont have to worry about that since im like face rank 2 in my city. im not like one of those super popular cheerleaders or anything…im just such a dork that EVERYBODY knows me…

    i still envy you

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  79. well there’s not even 1000 people in my town so i guess i’m in! lol but yeah i know like everyone…i’ll just be in the mall/walking in my town/at a football game/at the beach and suddenly i’ll see someone from like summer camp or something and be like “oh HI!!!”

  80. ohmigod, that is the best accidental story ever!!!!!!!!
    if that happened, i seriously woulda thought i was dreaming. then possibly screamed. loudly. and repeatedly. and then spent the entire day at the computer.

    and dude, the last word really is cake????

    ahhhhhhh, avoiding possible spoilers. thank you, good person who has read it forever ago and not mentioned stuff.

    meanwhile i will have to be content with running out to buy paperback specials and reading the next two chapters. and then…..only two weeks or so left.

  81. and my town is small, but i would say the majority of people wouldn’t recognize me. i’m sorta low-profile. or not. i inherently don’t know what ppl think of me when i’m not around.

    well, i don’t know most of the people i see around, at least.

  82. haha zee. thats so cool.
    but you know with the sensei and sama things. aren’t they just jap greeting-ending things?
    like they’re not anything new are they?

  85. hi Bri-la !!! I am from Singapore and that’s in Asia! I don’t think that Mr Westerfeld has been to my country before for autograph sessions…

    OMG!!! how lucky you are Zee-sensei!!! like many others, i would not have believed my eyes if I saw EXTRAS draft lying in my inbox. you are such a nice person Zee-sensei! at least you didn’t leak out the story after so much time so we fans will be able to enjoy the story! it’s seems funny that the last word of the EXTRAS is “cake”.haha~

    hi Jess! just to let you know, if i am not wrong, sensei means Teacher in japanese and sama is a word placed after a name. i think it means Lord. so if Zee-sensei called Scott “Scott-sama”, it means Lord Scott. and you are right for it’s japanese language.

    16 more days to EXTRAS!! i think i am going to Borders today to pre-oder it if possible! do you have to pay extra money to pre-oder it??? i wonder…

    +-+miko kagome+-+

  87. well, im off to my first volleyball, can you call it a game if it is just a practice game against other schools? they wont even keep score, but im still a little nurvous.

  88. Thanks guys =) I didn’t know Extras was so popular/in demand!!

    You unfortunately do have to pay when you pre-order. Well… that’s the case with online pre-ordering.

    Well Scott told me not to spread the story around, and I could have been possibly arrested if I did! The most I’ve told to anyone is basically what Scott said. Except I knew it was Aya Fuse on the cover pic before anyone else did.

    Yeah, the setting of this story is in Japan. “Sensei” is a title of respect, you use it when your face rank is below 1000. (The lower your face rank, the more popular you are.) “Sama” is the title given to the most popular person in the city. Oh, and if you are the most popular person in the city, doesn’t mean you actually live there.

  89. Correction: If you are the most popular person in the city, it doesn’t mean you HAVE to live there. You could live somewhere else too.

  90. Thats cool, im stealing it for westerboard.
    haha.

    Ok about Westerboard!
    Any one who has recently joined and sent an email back to me asking for activation…yea could you please email me again if your accont is still inactive? and with the username too please!

    http://www.westerboard.com

  91. hey Zee-la…a little while ago you said your face rank was like 800,000?! so how can you be under 1000?! you are getting me VERY VERY VERY confused! and stop talking about the whole face rank thing! your giving stuff away!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  98. Woot!
    My mom wanted some coffee while we were out running errands today, and she chose to go to the Starbucks that’s right next to a Barnes& Nobles.
    I was like:” Wow, Mom! Look, there’s a Barnes&Noble next door! Isn’t that a coincidence?”
    Mom:” Fine. You can get one book.ONE.”
    I stood in the store for twenty minutes trying to decide what book to get. My mom was huffing and puffing in annoyance, until I suggested that she let me get two books because then we could leave more quickly.
    I ended up getting Peeps and The Last Days.
    *squeals*
    So now I have to read those, and then re-read the Uglies trilogy before Extras comes out.

  99. Help me put the doohicky on my desktop. I so dont get it. I want extras!!!! boo hoo oh and tiera peeeps is such an awesome book. SNakes on a Stick well im obsessed. hugs luna

  103. OMG.
    I just got done reading Peeps, and I LOVED IT! AHH!
    Now I want to read The Last Days, but I’ll probably end up staying up all night to finish it; haha.

  104. Your face rank can change. I changed my mind, I’d rather be in the top 1000 rather than in the 800,000s, haha! In my city I would probably be in that area though (800,000). Even though we only have a small amount of residents.

  107. still have to read all of them. when i first moved here when i was 5, my face rank was 50,000 (the amount of peeps in my city) but by the time kindergarten ended, i was probably about number 10,000. that is a big improvement considering i didn’t do anything. now like i said, im about number 2, right behind the mayor.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  108. I think that my face rank is going to be the bottom or very near the bottom! Because i don’t normally talk in school.

  109. Bahah! Yay! I literraly just finished reading Peeps 😛 I couldn’t put it down bro!

    I’m about to read Pretties (I raided my school library) and then I’m gonna talk to myself wondering what’s gonna happen in Extra’s.

    So, er, what time does it come out in Aus? .. ^^

    Later bro, Patty the Fatty (Em)

  113. i personally think peeps and the last days are some of the best westerfeld books. but midnighters are my favorites. please don’t hurt me uglies fans.

    and my school librarian was ttly clueless
    (she once ordered a copy of septimus heap in spanish, and no one noticed it til my friend got it out and i picked it up and said dude, this whole book’s in spanish)
    she ordered peeps and said she thought it was the third in the uglies trilogy. and i’m like NO!!! SPECIALS!!! i’d already read them by then, but that woulda been really confusing for other people.

    and yeah!!! i got my paperback specials so i have now read all of the first three chapters of extras!!!! woo!!!
    best line “preferred her sushi heavier than air”
    best phrase “eye-kicking smile”

    i love how like every book starts with the crashing of a party.

    CAN’T WAIT 4 EXTRAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

  114. I’m going to B&N today, and hope that they accidentally leaked the book early. And maybe buy a paperback Specials because my hardcover one looks like it went through a grunge phase.

  115. no sign of early extras when i went to borders. the more popular a book is, the less likely they are to accidently do stuff like that, unfortunately. and i waited to get paperback to match. though i would be (and have been) the person who sits on the floor, reads the chapter in the back, and then goes home.

  116. arbitrary (and srry for posting so much, i’m bored) but is extras gonna come out in hardcover or paperback???????
    author-person (who probably doesn’t read this far down on the comments)????????
    the amazon says hardcover, i think.
    hmmm…….random thought.

  118. Wah! Stupid, retarded, unfair, Extras-hating compter won’t let me put the counter on my desktop! *curses computer to the heavens, then continues typing* I hate this stupid thing!

  119. Btw, the whole Pepper-la/Pepper-wa thing was so I could call my dog in pretty speak. I think I’ll go with Pepper-la.

    -) Cyclops/ alien emotie!
    |) sleeping/ winking cyclops!
    >:-) evil man
    0_0 shocked emotie!
    (_( looking the other way emotie!
    )_) vice versa
    -_- sleeping emotie
    invisible emotie!!!!!

  126. Ooh, good observation – a party crashed at the beginning of each story. So true.

    I recently ordered Specials as I’ve read it but I don’t own it. I’m not debating whether to buy Extras or not since I have it on my comp. but you have no idea how annoying it is to read a book from the computer. Plus you can’t take a computer with you everywhere, and it’s only the 2nd draft, pretty rough, with lots of typos as I went through it (sorry, Scott-sama), so I’d love to see it in its final version.

  128. Its that close oh my gosh scott you’ve just made my world happy!!! It could cost $1000 and i’d soo still buy it…not to say that i have that kinda cash or that i want you to boost the price up that much.

  131. my mom pickin it up today! shout out 2 anyone who is completing in luv with scotts books! luv him! i wont read any other books but his(until i run out of books 2 read). darn this computer, it wont let me email 2 scott so im stuck with writin comments.
    the guy who got 2 read extras ahead of time is sooooooo lucky. thats fawesome!readin his books takes me away from my boring life into a world full of adventure, i think that i am in that world until my mom makes me go 2 bed(but then i switch my light back on and then im their again)Wish i could meet him in person!

    Peace

  133. seems no one is on
    i guess everyone is 2 busy reading Extras
    duh duh duh
    guess in just 2 late
    just got extras, a am totally obsessed
    y am i even sitting here writing
    i should be reading!

    Peace

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