Net Neutrality fighters to head Obama's FCC transition team

Obama's FCC transition team is to be headed up by two of the smartest, hardest-fighting Net Neutrality advocates I know: more
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:29:14 +0100

PBS on science fiction pulps vs. the web

Simon sez, "John Scalzi and editors for two leading SF pulp magazines were interviewed recently for PBS about the dying medium and how it could possibly survive in a digital age. more
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:24:42 +0100

TSA "behavior detection" is wrong more than 99 percent of the time

Remember when the TSA rolled out its "behavior detection" system whereby slack-jawed, water-confiscating security officers would be trained to recognize your "micro expressions" more
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:22:06 +0100

Fetal Bites: America's #1 Fetus Cookie Cutter

Jason Higgins, Esq. Jr. (aka Big Pig) says: Hey there. more
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:23:59 +0100

Gail Potocki painting show in Los Angeles

Chicago-based symbolist artist Gail Potocki has a new show of provocative, masterful paintings opening Saturday, November 15, at Billy Shire Fine Arts gallery in Los Angeles. more
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:49:12 +0100

Barack is Mac, and Pac?

Apparently, America's president-elect is a Mac user, a Pac Man fan, and likes sticking stickers on one's laptop. more
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:49:39 +0100

Fan powered flying car

Charles Platt pointed me to this Times Online article about a fan-poweerd flying car. more
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:00:34 +0100

The New President's Plans for Food Policy?

(PHOTO: "Do you think he's alive???" shot by Kevin Law.) Over at Ethicurean, there's an extensive post exploring what the newly elected American president might do differently about food, farms, and related systems of energy and technology in the United States: more
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:40:34 +0100

Web 2.0 Summit Videos: Lessig, Kelly, Al Gore, many more

I'm typing this post from backstage at the 2008 Web 2.0 Summit where Rebecca McKinnon and Isaac Mao are delivering their presentations right now. more
Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:25:38 +0100

Designing for Space: Core77 visits NASA's Industrial Design Team

Glen Jackson Taylor of Core77 visted NASA to profile the designers of the next manned lunar rover. more
Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:49:54 +0100

Letters From Johns

In January of this year, on what amounted to a whim, I created an online project called Letters from Johns. more
Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:57:13 +0100

M.I.A. Down In The Hole

A new video, "S.U.S. (Save UR Soul)," directed by (a very pregnant) M.I.A. more
Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:18:34 +0100

Xeni at Web 2.0 Wed 11/4 in SF: Future of Online Video Panel

I don't usually blog about conference stuff I'm doing, but this one's going to be special. more
Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:18:24 +0100

Is This Thing On?

Hi! Susannah Breslin here. Thank you to Xeni for the kind introduction and to the rest of the Boing Boing team for inviting me to guestblog. more
Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:39:47 +0100

BB's community manager beats MSM on breaking tiny but neat-o election news

Making Light, the blog co-edited by Boing Boing's community manager Teresa Nielsen Hayden, was among the first sites to publish voting totals from a district that's reported in for the 2008 US presidential elections. more
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:54:03 +0100

Election Eve

* NOT EVERYONE wants to be President of the United States. more
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:24:26 +0100

VOTE NERD

I WAS GLAD to provide a short quote for Joel Stein's recent piece on the "Urkel Effect," more
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:28:30 +0100

Cruel blue screen of death prank with revolting ASCII goatse

Make contributor Joe Grand (aka "Kingpin") shows his BSODomizer (www.bsodomizer.com) prank gadget in action. more
Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:36:21 +0100

Video for new book, Jetpack Dreams

Here's the video for Mac Montandon's new book about the history of jetpacks, Jetpack Dreams: more
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:44:20 +0100

Andrew Keen predicts the end of "free labor" online

Andrew Keen wrote an unintentionally funny essay about how the bad economy is going to make people stop contributing content online unless they get paid for it. more
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:01:58 +0100

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