Writing about The Cat Piano I had something at the back of my mind that just failed to come out. It was the narrative poems of Dr Seuss and in particular, Gerald McBoing-Boing , the winner of the 1950 Academy Award for Best Animated Short . A remarkably good film, it is the story of young Gerald McCloy who only speaks in sound effects. Baffling doctors, school and parents alike the young lad seems...
Super Happy Crazy-Ass Japanese Thing of the Day: Boing Boing’s special report on the Japanese man who married his virtual girlfriend. On Sunday, a man named Sal9000 married the love of his life. Her name is Nene Anegasaki, and she lives inside of a Nintendo DS video game called Love Plus . The wedding took place during a Make: Japan meet-up held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In attendance...
We used to call our original video episodes "BBTV," and we don't anymore. We call it Boing Boing Video now. Well, ladies and germs, allow me to present to you the inheritor of that acronym: BBTV is now the name used by Bedbug TV, a guy who makes episodic web video content about how to deal with bedbugs. I think he runs a pest control company. His videos crack me up, particularly the first...
Erin sez, "This past weekend in the Mojave desert Mad Max fans got together for a 3-day, one time only 'Road Warrior Weekend' campout and built replicas of the Gyrocopter and Interceptors." OK, so not only are these incredible vehicles and costumes -- but those are some damned stylish and attractive cosplayers. They should do a runway show. Road Warrior Weekend (Thanks, Erin!) Previously:Boing...
The non-profit Wessex Archaeology organization created a virtual fly-over of Stonehenge and vicinity based on LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data collected from the air. From the project page: During production of the animation, we turned the LIDAR data into a solid 3D model of whole landscape surrounding Stonehenge. Aerial tours of the most famous sites and monument groups were animated in HD...
John sez, "Candy Chang teamed up with Tenants & Neighbors to create a boxed set of 30 flash cards on tenants' rights." Many residents in New York are unfamiliar with their housing rights. What is my landlord required to repair? How does rent stabilization work? When can my landlord enter my apartment? Thanks to a generous grant from Sappi Ideas That Matter, Candy collaborated with non-profit...
From a Boing Boing Post by Xeni Jardin: Starting at 3AM Eastern time on Wednesday, Wikileaks plans to publish over half a million US national text pager intercepts related to 9/11 From the WikiLeaks 9/11 Web Site From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks will release over half [...]
The newswires and blogs (and Boing Boing) have been burning up with the news that a man who's been believed to have been in a coma for 23 years was in fact conscious the whole time, something we've only discovered thanks to his newfound ability to communicate using special apparatus. But there's very little information about Rom Houben's communications, save for a few images. And these images appear...
WETA, the special effects studio behind movies such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, has a new line of prop rayguns, and they're actually sort of affordable this time. WETA has been selling incredible ray guns for a while now, but they've run into the hundreds of dollars range. The new line, Dr. Grordbort's Rayguns, are made of molded plastic instead of metal, bringing those prices down to a less-unreasonable...
On cranky usability guy Jakob Neilsen's Alertbox, this wonderful chart on the relative "consumption" characteristics of TV vs the web. Velocity of Media Consumption: TV vs. the Web (via ResourceShelf) Previously:CNN ends a web news experiment - Boing Boing Boing Boing: Design critique of Jakob Nielsen Boing Boing: Good Jakob Nielsen AlertBox on Jakob Nielsen consisely summarizes all - Boing...
Some of you may have already seen them on Boing Boing , but those of you who haven't, well, be prepared to make some cheerful squeaky noises as you enjoy… Animals With Lightsabers . Get in on it now before people start adding "thiz not chezburger u lookin for" across the bottom.
After posting his excellent series of instructional videos on YouTube for 3-string cigar box guitar, Keni Lee Burgess has started posting videos for the 4-string cigar box guitar. Previously:Keni Lee Burgess plays ""Judge Harsh Blues" on cigar box guitar ... Keni Lee Burgess plays "Baby Please Don't Go" on his cigar box ... shane speal's cigar box guitar lessons photos of my...
As promised , the wedding ceremony between a man named Sal9000 and Nene Anegasaki, a character from the Nintendo DS game Love Plus , was filmed and broadcast across the internet. It's predictably sad. Fortunately, a shred of hope for humanity was preserved when it was revealed that Sal9000 orchestrated the event as a piece of performance art—although it is unclear how serious he is actually...
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