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jeudi 24 mai 2012, 22:17
Last October, I blogged about a Kickstarter to create 'a video game with no graphics, played entirely using audio.' The game is Blindside, and it's finished! Now available through the App Store for iPhone4/iPad2+. The project was inspired by co-creator Aaron Rasmussen's...
Sculptor Jim Rosenau's 'Reading Chair' is a 6' high piece made from volumes from an old Funk & Wagnall's and some blunt pencils. It's the perfect chair for a bookish gnome. I've featured Jim's work here before. Reading Chair (via Bookshelf)
Photo: Chris Arnade Chris Arnade is a photographer based in New York City. I've blogged his urban photography before. Check out these fantastic shots of young men in Hunts Point Bronx, doing crazy gravity-defying freestyle jumps. Below: more photos, and the story behind...
Are you a designer or architect who would like to work within the unique constraints of zero gravity? Spaceship designer Susmita Mohanty, who worked on the International Space Station and Shuttle-Mir missions, is teaching an intensive course at Milan's Domus Academy this...
[Video Link] 'MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith and his team of mechanical engineers and nano-technologists at the Varanasi Research Group … came up with LiquiGlide, a 'super-slippery' coating which makes the insides of the bottle so frictionless that the sludgy goo inside just...
Nachos NY -- a site celebrating the nacho in all its glory -- has produced three temporary nacho-related tattoos for your delectation. Nacho Tattoos (via Craft)
I haven't watched television since I was fifteen years old, but up until then my entire world view was shaped by shows like Nova and Nature. I guess there was other stuff on, but nothing else gave me the sense that there was an entire universe out there that I could actually ...
Jamie at The Mary Sue looks at costume jewelry brand 1928's fun line of Marvel Comics Jewelry. 'SHINY THINGS ASSEMBLE: MARVEL-THEMED JEWELRY (THAT YOU CAN TOTALLY AFFORD)'
In the Globe and Mail a Canadian Press report by Nelson Wyatt on the mass-kettling and arrest of protesters in Montreal last night. A long-running and hard-fought student strike over tuition hikes led to the passage of a shameful law that limits the rights of protesters....
Dutch artist fantastic Koen Hauser's Modische Atlas der Anatomie series of digitally manipulated photos brings to mind the classic 'Visible Woman' kit. 'Anatomy Revealed by Koen Hauser' (Juxtapoz)
[Video Link] There are probably easier ways to cause a column to buckle, but this way looks like fun. (Via Cynical-C)
Abraham Piper of 22 Words says: 'To commemorate Bob Dylan’s 71st birthday, here’s a Peanuts strip from this day in 1971.'
A 20-year-old photo spread from pioneering cyberculture zine Mondo 2000 asks the musical question: 'R U a cyberpunk?' Bruce Sterling, who was, in fact, a cyberpunk, answers: 'Since 20 years have passed, contemporary people will fail to realize that this was a comical...
[Video Link] It was so great to see Adam Savage at Maker Faire again this year. Thousands of people crammed into the the giant Fiesta Hall for Adam's presentation. Adam started by talking about his fedora, which is a replica of the one Harrison Ford wore in Indiana Jones and ...
In June 2010 Denver police officer Derrick Saunders was sentenced to 5 days in jail for driving 143 mph while drunk. The manager of safety fired Saunders, but yesterday the Civil Service Commission overturned the decision to fire him, based on 'discretion and precedence.'...
Henry Farrell (George Washington University) and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi (Carnegie-Mellon/The Santa Fe Institute) have just posted a paper, 'Cognitive Democracy,' to Crooked Timber. Farrell and Shalizi argue that neither the 'libertarian paternalist' idea of 'nudging' people...
Ted Kaczynski updated his own entry in the Harvard alumni directory, just in time for his class's 50th reunion: While many of his classmates sent in lengthy updates on their lives for the 2 ½-inch-thick “red book,” the entry for “Theodore John Kaczynski” only...
Our thanks go to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Much like the iconic double decker buses in the UK, this British-designed limited edition Storm Trilogy Watch has two levels. The top floor is a traditional...
The Space Hijackers' Twitter account for their Official Protesters of the London 2012 Games has been suspended, following a complaint from the London Olympic committee: Twitter. That harbour of free speech, undaunted by various Arab dictators. However, it seems that a...
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