Sitting and Smiling #136Watch this video on YouTube For more than a year, once every week or so, Benjamin Bennett sets up his video camera, sits in front of it,… Read the rest of the article: Internet man sits and smiles at camera for hundreds of hours
Inventions are exciting, but the best ones are art.
There's a wonderful little corner of YouTube where stoic burly men wander deep into the woods and chop down tall trees with chainsaws.
McDonalds "Clean it" training video featuring a fake Michael JacksonWatch this video on YouTube Perhaps the best cleaning motivation I've ever seen, and fortunately the lyrics are not McDonald's-specific. Using… Read the rest of the article: McDonald's "Clean It" parody training video
FASTEST BREATHING DOG IN THE WORLD!!!Watch this video on YouTube Somebody check the carbs on this thing.
Your old film photos need an upgrade. Enjoy Dean Putney's guide on how to get the best quality from your boxes of negatives as painlessly as possible.
Channel Cheese – How to break open a Parmesan cheese with Carlo GuffantiWatch this video on YouTube The combination of a huge wheel of cheese, lots of specialized knives, and… Read the rest of the article: You're gonna love this 15 minute video on how to cut a wheel of cheese
Verizon Fios throttles NetflixWatch this video on YouTube In this infuriating video, Colin Nederkoorn records his computer streaming Netflix's test video over his Verizon FiOS connection. Then, via a VPN… Read the rest of the article: Video proof of Verizon throttling Netflix
Moonbot In The HoodWatch this video on YouTube Hold onto your bots: tomorrow is the fourth annual Robot Film Festival in San Francisco! Join the crowd of robotics researchers and… Read the rest of the article: Tomorrow in SF: Robot Film Festival at Bot & Dolly!
Last year's Robot Film Festival, co-sponsored by Boing Boing! My favorite San Francisco event of the year is coming up this weekend. Here's why you can't miss the fourth annual… Read the rest of the article: Come to the Robot Film Festival this Saturday in San Francisco!
Cocaine production in ColombiaWatch this video on YouTube This segment from the documentary "The Cocaine Route" shows the picking, mashing and eventual reduction of coca leaves into a raw form… Read the rest of the article: Making cocaine in Colombia
HAND DIGGING A WELL IN MEXICO Excavando a mano un pozoWatch this video on YouTube Digging a well is a TON of hard work, but the four men in this… Read the rest of the article: Watch these guys hand dig a well lickety-split
Shapeways has a great model of a three-sided die available for printing. Neat design, I didn't know you could make such a thing!
Caleb Brown's oil paintings bring us into a bizarre end-of-days scenario where super sharks, massive insects and towering otters take over humanity from every angle. They're beautiful, meticulously-crafted photorealistic representations… Read the rest of the article: Surreal oil paintings of a world taken over by giant bugs and flying sharks
Quirky is helping inventor Trisha Cleveland develop the dreams of everyone with a second floor into a foldable and practical product. The foam pieces fold up into a nice little… Read the rest of the article: SlideRider instantly turns your stairs into an indoor slide
If you can disassemble and remove this fifty-foot-long, century-old barn from some dude's property, it's yours. Probably a great source of beautiful old wood, as well as a substantial pain… Read the rest of the article: Free early 1900s barn in Maine
In his weekly homily on Monday, the Pope explored the idea that extraterrestrial beings might want to join the Catholic church and determines that they should be accepted with open… Read the rest of the article: The Pope says he'll baptize space aliens if they ask him to
Chiptune musician Danimal Cannon carries this portable folding table on tour for his concert setup. Looks like it'd be perfect for road warriors of all types!
Raising ten times as much as your whole company's needed in the last decade may be the only way to keep blogging alive.
Seriously: It's got a full-on pop-up pirate ship.
