Recently untethered from the Xbox, independent developers have been making some really awesome pieces of software with the Kinect. This project is a perfect example of what's possible when anyone… Read the rest of the article: Making a virtual FAO Schwartz floor piano with the Xbox Kinect

Attention mothers of mine who teach sixth grade: This is a great song to sing with your students for Friday Song. 14 year old Spencer Tweedy, son of Jeff wrote… Read the rest of the article: Lovely song about math by Wilco frontman's son: Put A Line On It

Look at this 4 year old's adorable Jawa costume her grandmother made her. This is way better than my juvenile attempt of wrapping myself in an old blanket and stumbling… Read the rest of the article: Adorable Jawa Costume

We don't know much about the origin of this little number, but we thank Minnesota-based radio host and funnyman John Moe for sharing it with us. [Video Link]

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The three laws of robots.txt.

Hello from the depths of Boing Boing! We're working on a new way for people to let us know about wonderful things, and we need some industrious happy mutants to… Read the rest of the article: Call for beta testers!

I'm a total tech conference noob. Despite my best efforts to fight dying batteries and slow Internet connections I still didn't manage to get some of my better photos up… Read the rest of the article: The leftover pictures from WWDC

Dean Putney is Boing Boing's developer and a student at Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a large server of ancient and evil vintage. Two years ago… Read the rest of the article: Dewey Music: making public domain music friendlier