Yokway (Free subscription) | 57 minutes ago
Zero Punctuation is The Escapist's groundbreaking video review series starring Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. Every Wednesday Zero Punctuation picks apart the games so you don't have to. Called "hilariously cutting ... first legitimate breakout hit from the gaming community in recent memory" by Boing Boing, see why reviewers love it and developers fear it. Posted: 10 minutes ago by melimelo...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John's spotted this Ringshot contraption, a stainless steel sheath for your thumb and forefinger that protects you from misfires in your school/office/airplane rubber-band wars. Link, Discuss this on Boing Boing Gadgets...
John Battelle's Searchblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
BBtv has a thought-provoking piece on some guerilla art with regard to Google and its China policy. I've written extensively on the background (for more, here). if you want to get to the good stuff quickly (I understand folks are busy,) the piece is long-ish, head to 4.45 min...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
In the comments for my post about The Hoodlum, Mr. Bali Hai said: "A while back, I dug through the IA and pulled out every cult film that had also made an appearance in Mike Weldon's Psychotronic Video guide. I came up with quite a long list." I've been spending a lot of time digging around in the Internet Archive. In the course of my excavations, I uncovered a metric buttload of old cult filmage in...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
The Men Who Stare At Goats is a must-read 2005 book by UK journalist Jon Ronson about the US government's interest in very strange stuff, like Jedi powers, psychic spying, subliminal sound weapons, and the potential to kill something (like a goat, or an enemy soldier) just by looking at it. Fact or fiction, or most likely a little of both, it's an absolute blast to read. (And Ronson's BBC documentary...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Wired's posted a photo gallery from the new show of vintage Japanese robots opening at the Sci Fi Museum in Seattle. Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created memorable logos for Mobil, PBS and other U.S. institutions, has been collecting the shiny bots for decades. The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle will exhibit toys from Geismar's collection...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
If you know me, you know I love bookcases built into EVERYTHING. This sofa (the Flexform Oltre) with bookcases in the arms: no exception. Link (via Cribcandy)...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
This 1958 Japanese tin toy features Laika, Sputnik 2's brave cosmo-dog. Poor Laika. Link (Thanks, Erin!) See also: Laika - graphic novel tells the sweet and sad story of the first space-dog...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Danny O'Brien from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, Vista users are complaining that Media Center refuses to let them record broadcast digital TV shows on NBC. Here's a screenshot of what they're seeing. After we won the fight to stop the Broadcast Flag three years ago, over-the-air digital TV shouldn't have any copy controls -- and if it did, Microsoft shouldn't have to obey them. Is it a bug...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
BB pal and inspiration V. Vale is the publisher of RE/Search, chronicles of underground and fringe culture since 1977. The RE/Search books, from Industrial Culture Handbook and Pranks! to Modern Primitives and Incredibly Strange Music, are essential encyclopedias of alternative thought, art, music, and methods to circumvent "control" in all its manifestations. (Pranks!, Industrial Culture Handbook,...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Buddhist monk THich Dang "Tom" Phap is building a beautiful Buddhist Meditation Center in a very unusual and unlikely location: the barren high desert of Adelanto, California. The centerpiece is a 60-ton marble statue of the saint Quan yin, donated by a Malaysian businessman. Phap bought 15 acres in Adelanto four years ago as a home for the statue and the center that he hopes he can complete if enough...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
QA Create sells these elegant cufflinks made from Scrabble tiles. You pick the letters! They're $15.99. Link (Thanks, Jess Hemerly!)...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Did you know archive.org has lots of cool old feature films in the public domain you can download for free? Here's one they just added to the archive that looks promising: The Hoodlum, from 1951. I'm downloading it now. (Here's the RSS feed for recent additions to the movie archive.) Lawrence Tierney ("Reservoir Dogs") plays an unreformed, hardened criminal who has just been released from prison. Working...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here is an old soulful cover of Sam Cooke's "Having A Party" by Greg Dulli, former frontman of one of my all-time favorite modern rock bands, Afghan Whigs. The first national magazine article I ever wrote, for Alternative Press, was about the Whigs, who I knew growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio. And Cooke's "Having A Party" was my wedding song, so this cover has special meaning to me. On hiatus from his...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
frogDesign's concept facemask would let you escape reality by augmented or replacing what you see, smell, and hear with sensory inputs of your own choosing. In a troubling future, these augmented reality devices would offer a new dimension - a virtual layer that could be used to “re-skin” the troubling outside world. A boundary between the wearer and the world around him, the device would become a...
