A reader writes, "Passengers riding Walt Disney World's updated Space Mountain attraction will be able to play video games as they wait in line. Each game lasts about 90 seconds with a 90-second interval and the games can accommodate 86 players at one time." Space Mountain is a notorious slow loader (all coasters are, since they can't do that lovely continuous belt thing that characterizes,...
Monsters and Rockets sez, "Sesame Street is 40 years old today! In this early clip, Grover and a little boy named Jesse define marriage. It's a cute bit, but the remarkable thing is that given recent headlines this actually plays a lot like a PSA about gay marriage. At no point do Grover and Jesse say that a married couple has to be a man and a woman, and the things they say make up a marriage...
Yves Béhar (who is in an epic struggle with Marc Newson to claim the title of "sexiest industrial designer alive") designed this vibrator. It looks like a Miyazaki cartoon creature. The Form 2 takes a two-pronged approach to the vibrator, giving its user what they're calling "Sensation in Stereo." The "ears" can be positioned independently like a Gumby action figure...
Crafster member Leahseraph, the creator of these Super Mario Fire-Flower gloves "just winged it," making up the pattern as she went. Geek Craft: Super Mario knitted flower gloves (via Wonderland) Previously:Super Mario cupcakes - Boing Boing Beatboxing flautist performs Super Mario theme - Boing Boing Super Mario vs NYC -- street art - Boing Boing Super Mario mosaic table - Boing Boing Laser...
Stanford primatologist and anthropologist Robert Sapolsky scores big with this grad lecture on "The Uniqueness of Humans," a humbling, inspiring and sweet 30 minutes on what it is about humans that makes us unique from our animal cousins, and how many of the seemingly unique features of humanity can be found elsewhere. Sapolsky make me want to go back to school, enrolling in the Stanford...
That Master's in Library Science might have been hard to get, but some jobs are just worth the struggle: The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an enterprising, creative, and service-oriented archivist to join the staff of Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) as Archivist for the Grateful Dead Archive. This is a potential career status position. The Archivist...
“Pigeon: Impossible”, a marvelous CG animated short by Lucas Martell. This was Lucas’ first attempt at animation, taking him 5 years to create the film. A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase. via Boing [...] This is a blog post...
Jeremy sez, "Video of a starlings swarming; rather amazing, and recalls for me many images from technology and nature." Bird Swarm (Thanks, Jeremy!) Previously:Toxic waste gets birds laid - Boing Boing Crows Birds stealing coins from car wash? - Boing Boing Boing Boing: Amazing photos of starling flocks Three Ways to Drive an Animal to Extinction - Boing Boing Man attacked by owl - Boing...
Jeremy sez, "Video of a starlings swarming; rather amazing, and recalls for me many images from technology and nature." Bird Swarm (Thanks, Jeremy!) Previously:Toxic waste gets birds laid - Boing Boing Crows Birds stealing coins from car wash? - Boing Boing Boing Boing: Amazing photos of starling flocks Three Ways to Drive an Animal to Extinction - Boing Boing Man attacked by owl - Boing...
I turned my Boing Boing post about Murdoch's mad pronouncements on the Internet into a column for the Guardian, called "For whom the net tolls." What, exactly, is Rupert Murdoch thinking? First, he announces that all of Newscorp's websites will erect paywalls like the one employed by the Wall Street Journal (however, Rupert managed to get the details of the WSJ's wall wrong - no matter, he's...
I wrote off Murdoch's latest threats to remove News Corp feeds from Google News as so much blather until I read Boing Boing : So here's what I think it going on. Murdoch has no intention of shutting down search-engine traffic to his sites, but he's still having lurid fantasies inspired by the momentary insanity that caused Google to pay him for the exclusive right to index MySpace (thus momentarily...
Dentistry in depth in Barcelona Jeffrey sez, "Nico Roig created this fantastic visualization of a mouth at the dentist. The image of the dentist is a real photo, and the mouth is Nico's creation. If you ever wanted to see what it's like sitting on the tongue like a piece of candy... here you go." Dentistry in depth (Thanks, Jeffrey!) Previously:Stupendous coral reef panorama - Boing Boing...
Interesting links for 29 Oct 2009 - 10 Nov 2009: Rental Goats Clear Brush Better - What a brilliant idea. I think I need to get myself a few goats and start renting them out to our local council. Arnold Schwarzenegger's coded F-bomb in veto - Boing Boing - Hee hee hee. Co-incidence? Only Arnie knows. Denying physics won’t save the video stars | Cory Doctorow - Times Online - Another stupid UK...
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