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.
purchase bag squid product via:boingboing 2008 Jun 17, 12:32Some of my favs: UFOs creating pyramids, a periodic table of elements consisting of 'Air', 'Water', 'Fire', etc., and satin in overalls burying fossils. I'm surprised by the lack of FSM.
humor via:boingboing satire religion science clothing shopping tshirts evolution intelligent-design 2008 Jun 17, 12:27"... you can see that even the mighty Google is not immune to getting tickets." Google steet view photo car talking with police officer. Were they speeding? =)
google humor photo map legal ticket cop prius hybrid via:boingboing 2008 May 19, 11:54Forged fake art: "After being released from prison in 1988, Kujau opened a gallery in Stuttgart where he sold 'authentic fakes'... In fact, his work became so popular that other forgers began to
create forged copies of Kujau's forgeries."
art fraud history via:boingboing.comments konrad-kujau 2008 May 19, 11:46Museum of fraudulent art. "Instead of being destroyed, as they were in the past, the fraudulent pieces will live to see another day in the Museum of Fakes, established in 1991 as part of the
University of Salerno's Center for the Study of Forgery."
art museum fraud via:boingboing 2008 May 18, 12:15'...he was recording Raleigh's HDTV channel WNCN-DT1 on his Vista machine when a popup stating that "restrictions set by the broadcaster...prohibit recording of this program" appeared.'
tv vista mce microsoft television video windows nbc via:boingboing 2008 May 2, 10:52Remind me of my post on a cat that looks like Thom Yorke.
cat humor photo lolcat via:boingboing wilford-brimley diabetes 2008 Apr 17, 9:54Six stories told in various Internet-y ways like as points on a google map or with infographics.
via:boingboing art book mashup map information visualization 2008 Apr 15, 11:23Reminds me of the sequences where you must collect notes in Super Mario Galaxy.
humor mario music video videogame via:boingboing 2008 Apr 9, 12:51"Matt Mason's keynote on The Pirate's Dilemma, his book on how to compete with piracy... Mason discusses why piracy can be an opportunity as well as a threat, how pirates innovate outside of the
marketplace and how legitimate businesses can respond."
video via:boingboing matt-mason piracy economics the-pirates-dilemma
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