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Solar, with lyrics. on Vimeo

2008 Apr 9, 11:00Cool music visualization. "Made with Processing. Audio by Goldfrapp ("Lovely Head" off her first album)."PermalinkCommentsvia:boingboing art video animation music goldfrapp

vidTO: Pedal Power VS Toronto Police

2008 Apr 7, 3:45Video of an art piece, a pedal powered Buick, taken for a test spin and getting pulled over by the cops.PermalinkCommentsvideo art via:boingboing car bike humor youtube

China, China's Boomtowns - National Geographic Magazine

2008 Apr 3, 2:19"How one supercharged province cranks out lightbulbs, buttons, and bra rings, as well as instant cities for the factory workers. "PermalinkCommentsvia:boingboing china economics environment politics video

Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - Podcast

2008 Mar 28, 1:37Cory Doctorow regularly reads from his books and irregularly includes random other stuff. Currently reading the novella he co-wrote with Ben Rosenbaum, 'True Names'.PermalinkCommentscory-doctorow creativecommons boingboing book fiction podcast scifi

Retro Sabotage: Highwaymen On Memory Lane - Flash Games [ver.9.0 req.]

2008 Mar 23, 3:26Flash versions of retro games with humorous differences.PermalinkCommentsgame humor retro games flash web internet pacman space-invaders tetris via:boingboing

Abyss & Apex : Fourth Quarter 2007: Wikihistory

2008 Mar 19, 2:25A short story expressed as a forum for time travelers: "At 18:06:59, BigChill wrote: Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?"PermalinkCommentshumor fiction wiki timetravel forum via:boingboing

Waxy.org: Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web

2008 Mar 18, 1:33A 1990s VHS video on the Internet and World Wide Web.PermalinkCommentsinternet history video humor via:boingboing

Wooster Collective

2008 Mar 18, 1:04"The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world." More cool street art and hacksPermalinkCommentscultural-disobediance art street-art street graffiti via:boingboing blog

& Teller (iTricks.com Magic News, Magic Videos and Podcasts - Blog Archive - iTricks.TV Pick Of The Day)

2008 Mar 8, 10:48"remember Dawn Of The Dead? Did you ever wonder how that horrifying turn of events would effect Las Vegas? What about specifically Teller, of Penn and Teller?"PermalinkCommentsteller penn-and-teller video zombie humor sad via:boingboing

NLC tries Creative Commons (Nebraska Library Commission Blog)

2008 Feb 21, 10:01Nebraska Library Commission beings including electronic and printed versions of Creative Commons books in their library.PermalinkCommentslibrary creative-commons copyright catalog cory-doctorow via:boingboing

Mechanically Separated Meat - Blog Archive - Super Mario World vs. the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics

2008 Feb 19, 8:57A video of a player's many attempts at the same level in a hacked Super Mario World game overlayed on top of one another.PermalinkCommentsvideo mario game quantum-physics via:boingboing

Learning America Smarter: Northern European Geography 101 (Diesel Sweeties Newsblog - Blog Archive)

2008 Feb 8, 11:21FTA: "I was quite troubled to realize today that I couldn't list ten major differences between Sweden and Norway. All my best Livejournal pals lent a hand and we came up with this not-entirely-comprehensive list."PermalinkCommentsmap humor via:boingboing norway sweden europe geography information visualization

LA Weekly - Art+Books - Murakami REVOKed - Shelley Leopold - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles

2008 Feb 5, 2:02From BB's article: "In December, graffiti writers AUGER and REVOK modified a billboard advertising the wonderful Takashi Murakami exhibit ... Murakami himself saw online photos of the graffitied billboard and thought it to be "so wonderful, he had to havePermalinkCommentsart graffiti cultural-disobediance murakami via:boingboing

EFF Sues AT&T and Mini History of EFF - California Lawyer Magazine

2008 Feb 3, 11:01FTA: "Like Klein, EFF senior staff attorney Kevin Bankston had spent much of the previous December reading press accounts of the administration's secret surveillance program. "It was all I thought about over the holiday," he remembers. In fact, at his bosPermalinkCommentsvia:boingboing eff article law privacy government history

Inhabitat - REVERSE GRAFFITI: Clean Green Street Art

2008 Jan 30, 3:00Graffiti created by cleaning your art into publicly viewable walls, signs, etc.PermalinkCommentsvia:boingboing cultural-disobediance graffiti art

Periodic Table Printmaking Project

2008 Jan 30, 1:55Periodic table with each element represented as a its own painting by different artists.PermalinkCommentsvia:boingboing science periodic-table-of-elements art visualization

YouTube - Daily Show & Colbert Report Writers in Mock WGA Debate

2008 Jan 26, 12:32Another hilarious Internet video generated from the writer strike. Yay for the strike!PermalinkCommentsvia:boingboing wga writing writers-strike video youtube tv daily-show colbert-report

decio: il blog: Commercial made real: Holy Trinit, Rome

2008 Jan 16, 3:55FTA: "A bunch of men launched a whopping half million balls down the stairs of Holy Trinit on Pincio Hill in Rome."PermalinkCommentsart video culture cultural-disobediance humor via:boingboing

CinematicTitanic: Mystery Science Theatre 3000 rides again -- sheer hilarity! - Boing Boing

2008 Jan 14, 4:03FTA: "CinematicTitanic picks up where MST3K left off -- much of the original cast are back, along with some new voices, except this time, it's direct-from-net distribution of DRM-free DVDs and (soon) DRM-free downloads."PermalinkCommentsvia:boingboing mst3k video product purchase

Pimpstar animated wheels -- "a huge leap forward in the evolution of the wheel" - Boing Boing

2008 Jan 8, 6:43The promotional video for this wheel feels like the beginning of a porn video. Images are delivered wirelessly to the wheels but the site doesn't say what protocol. I really hope they didn't consider security.PermalinkCommentshumor wheel pimpstar video car via:boingboing
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