das spooken, not hagen das.

Tokyo, the Blade Runner City by Thomas Birke

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:34:21 -0400

Tokyo, the Blade Runner City by Thomas Birke:

Photo: Thomas Birke

Photographer Thomas Birke went to Japan in 2008 to take photos of “the future” - and he didn’t go away disappointed. Thomas’ large format photography reveals how much…

Math Is Your Friend, Part 4

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:40:22 -0400

Math Is Your Friend, Part 4:

Customer: “What’s the difference between the three fingers and finger fingers?”

Me: “Well, the three fingers comes with three chicken fingers, and the five fingers comes with five.”

Customer:…

Universal Wins Rights To Produce An...Asteroids Movie [Movies]

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:34:11 -0400

Universal Wins Rights To Produce An...Asteroids Movie [Movies]:

This should be a hoot. Seems Universal Pictures have won a bidding war against three other studios for the right to produce a movie based on Asteroids. Yes. The 1979 game Asteroids.

Disney…

Clucks Can Be Deceiving

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:09:48 -0400

Clucks Can Be Deceiving:

Customer: “Hi, I just ordered sweet and sour chicken from your establishment, and one of my pieces of chicken is shaped like a fish.”

Me: “Well, the chicken is in all different shapes, ma’am.”

…

The Highest Point on the Planet (It's Not Mount Everest)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:46:28 -0400

The Highest Point on the Planet (It's Not Mount Everest): We all know that Mount Everest, at 29,035 feet above sea level, is the highest spot on our planet. Sir Edmound Hillary taught us that, right? Well, yes… that is unless we think about the word…

Salamander Discovery Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:38:53 -0400

Salamander Discovery Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration: Humans have always been fascinated with the salamander’s ability to regenerate lost limbs. Now scientists studying salamander genes have discovered that the process isn’t quite as complicated as…

Xbox 360 Game Creation Tool Kodu Now Live - Got Any Ideas? [User-generated Games]

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:33:04 -0400

Xbox 360 Game Creation Tool Kodu Now Live - Got Any Ideas? [User-generated Games]:

Microsoft’s picture-based 3D game programing tool was launched yesterday. Tell the world what you’re making.

During the Game Developers Conference, I had a chance to try Kodu, a programming…

W3C Drops Audio and Video Codec Requirements From HTML 5

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:39:56 -0400

W3C Drops Audio and Video Codec Requirements From HTML 5:

The stewards of the web have removed the sections of the HTML 5 draft specification that would recommend web browsers support audio and video playback using a specific codec.

Ian Hickson, one of…

Mexican jumping bean video

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:33:07 -0400

Mexican jumping bean video:

I enjoyed this short, creative BBC video that tells the story of the Mexican jumping bean. (Via Bits and Pieces)

Previously:

“MEXICAN JUMPING BEANS ARE REAL!” - Boing Boing

13 year old kid reviews a 30 year old Sony Walkman

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:48:36 -0400

13 year old kid reviews a 30 year old Sony Walkman:

BBC Magazine gave 13-year-old Scott Campbell a gen-one Walkman in place of his MP3 player for a week, then gathered his impressions on the device:

It took me three days to figure out that there…

oh SNAP.

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:13:53 -0400

oh SNAP.

Canopy Raft

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:46:14 -0400

Canopy Raft:
How do researchers study the tops of rain forests? One way is to use a canopy raft, which is flown up and settled on the very tops of trees.

canopy rafts are extraordinary things. they’re…

Yann Travaille’s Crayon Scribble Tattoos

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:25:41 -0400

Yann Travaille’s Crayon Scribble Tattoos:

Tattoo artist Yann Travaille has made a name for himself in the over populated
field of tattoo design with his astonishingly refreshing designs normally done with crayons, not tattoo ink.

…

Here’s some nice way to learn chemistry :)

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:25:41 -0400

Here’s some nice way to learn chemistry :):

Here’s some nice way to learn chemistry :)

Light command: Bit.Trip Core coming to WiiWare July 6th

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:49:21 -0400

Light command: Bit.Trip Core coming to WiiWare July 6th:

The best bit of this latest Bit.Trip Core video? How completely innocently its gentle blips belie the searing block-tracer madness happening on screen — I’ve already essentially relented…

Light command: Bit.Trip Core coming to WiiWare July 6th

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:30:16 -0400

Light command: Bit.Trip Core coming to WiiWare July 6th:

The best bit of this latest Bit.Trip Core video? How completely innocently its gentle blips belie the searing block-tracer madness happening on screen — I’ve already essentially relented…

Lacking The Most Important Sense Of All: Common

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:44:15 -0400

Lacking The Most Important Sense Of All: Common:

(At my store, we have several baggers that are deaf. On this day, one of them was bagging for me and I was running a register.)

Customer: *to bagger* “Excuse me, where is the mens’ room?”

…

Blue and Green? No, They are the Same Color.

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:32:26 -0400

Blue and Green? No, They are the Same Color.: The spiral appears to have arms of green, blue, and pink/magenta - but what appears to be blue and what appears to be green are actually identical colors, confirmed by spectrometry.

The reason…

It Just Jumps Off The Page

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:32:26 -0400

It Just Jumps Off The Page:

Me: *on the phone* “Hello, **** Printing.”

Woman: “Yeah, I need to get something printed, and I just need to know if you can do it or not.”

Me: “That’s entirely possible, what is it you want…

A library of the world's most unusual compounds

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:29:19 -0400

A library of the world's most unusual compounds: Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World’s Wonders, Curiosities, and Esoterica,…