2009 Mar 18, 9:35Team of teenagers attach camera to weather balloon and send it to space!
photography photos via:boingboing.comments science space flickr 2009 Mar 14, 10:23TED talks from Aimee Mullins mostly on the topics of her prosthetic legs. The two talks are eleven years apart and you can note the advances in tech. "A record-breaker at the Paralympic Games in
1996, Aimee Mullins has built a career as a model, actor and activist for women, sports and the next generation of prosthetics."
aimee-mullins video ted prosthetic body-mod via:boingboing 2009 Feb 2, 11:52"Chessboxing: Created in 2003 by Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh, chess boxing has 11 rounds of alternated boxing and chess. In first round, which lasts four minutes, contestants initiate the chess match.
A two-minute boxing round follows. Rounds alternate until one of the players gets a checkmate or a knockout."
humor art chess boxing sport via:boingboing video youtube 2009 Jan 20, 2:04"Early this morning in San Francisco, Bush Street was changed to Obama Street along its entire length, from Presidio to Battery."
via:boingboing flickr obama cultural-disobediance streetart street sign photo 2009 Jan 16, 2:10A graph showing how many people use the word Khan spelled with varying number of 'A's.
humor via:boingboing graph data startrek khan google 2009 Jan 15, 9:21"My friend Amanda had never seen a whole Star Wars film. When I asked her if she wanted to watch the original trilogy she said that she would, but that she already knew what happens. So I took out my
voice recorder and asked her to start from the top. I then created some very basic animation in Final Cut to go along with her narration."
via:boingboing humor video starwars 2008 Dec 30, 1:03"Introducing Make: television, Coming in January 2009: A new national series from MAKE magazine, Twin Cities Public Television, and American Public Television"
pbs tv make diy community hack via:boingboing 2008 Nov 21, 3:52I like the melted ice cream truck. "Our Australian friends 'The Glue Society', a group of artists, designers and projecteers, have created these amazing series of sculptures and films where they've
created chair rainbows on the frozen tundra, a curb-side wrap party, gratuitous nudie pictures for airplanes passing by, a house of crates, and a blow-up doll's vacation paradise."
streetart art prank culture nature photo sculpture ice-cream-truck via:boingboing 2008 Oct 10, 10:26Sounds like Wayne Coyne, of the Flaming Lips has a home like you might expect if you've ever seen one of their concerts.
music via:boingboing architecture home flaming-lips wayne-coyne 2008 Sep 23, 1:19The economic bailout program written as 419 spam. "I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800
billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you."
humor politics economics satire spam via:boingboing 2008 Sep 23, 1:11"...a film crew and a renowned scientist are plunked down on a busy city street corner, and an impromptu Q&A session with the public ensues." I like the concept. Two videos on the topic
video science education physics nyc via:boingboing 2008 Aug 26, 3:32A collection of ads featuring "food so good that it actually eats itself". I really like the hat wearing slice of bread carrying a baguette.
humor art photo food ad advertising via:boingboing 2008 Aug 20, 10:29Baby outfitted with Katamari hat. Cute!
cute diy videogame game geek via via:boingboing katamari crochet hat 2008 Aug 14, 4:29Scifi short story, "What's expected of us", by Ted Chiang. Younger cousin of 'The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution'. FTA: "Civilization now depends on self-deception."
ted-chiang scifi time time-travel fiction via:boingboing 2008 Aug 14, 9:25"When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the
normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. But when Snow
White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it is up to Fabletown's sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, to determine if the killer is Bluebeard, Rose's ex-lover and
notorious wife killer, or Jack, her current live-in boyfriend and former beanstalk-climber."
comic read download free via:boingboing fiction 2008 Jul 11, 1:12Non-Newtonian liquid on a subwoofer displays creepy results. I need to try this sometime. This links to lots of other similar experiments.
video physics science youtube via:boingboing 2008 Jul 7, 11:38Many sets of twins board a subway and act innocent forming a sort of mirror on the train.
humor prank video subway nyc performance-art via:boingboing 2008 Jul 3, 12:17Humorous Obama bumper sticker that says: "Re-elect *SENATOR* John McCain 2008 [Arizona Flag]"
politics humor bumper-sticker via:boingboing 2008 Jun 18, 9:58I like this squid bag.
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