Favorite BoingBoing Links (November 2003)

• Foldable Popcult Dollies [link]
• Cool Tools - Kevin Kelly [link]
• Mo Kin's Amazing Xylophone Performance [link]
• The Key to Genius - Steve Silberman (Wired article) [link]
• Perfect Magic Cube of Order 5 Discovered [link]
• Collaborative Object Sexing [link]
• G4 CubeQuarium [link]
• SPAM Sandals (I see they've gone up 3 bucks in two years) [link]
• Googlehouse [link]
• Pink Floyd - The Wall - Action Figures [link]
• RSS Explained [link]
• Unique ID - The numbers that control your life [link]
• 3D London Tube [link]
• Frogs Have Accents [link]
• Cool Mono Wheel [link]
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex - Larry Niven [link]
• LEGO Fabrication, Stylishly Explained [link]
• Fun with (more) car lighters [link]

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( Aug 25 2005, 07:50:33 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Favorite BoingBoing Links (October 2003)

• Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? [link]
• Music Album Covers done with Lego Mini Figures. [link]
• High-Tech Glasses Help Improve Memory (I need these now. Hurry up MIT!) [link]
• Old Plastic Bags Turn Into a Soccer Ball [link]
• White Paper Plate Origami [link]
• Extreme Pumpkins [link]
• Render 1,000,000 trees in eight seconds [link]
• Butterfly Alphabet [link]
• Plants in Motion [link]
• Phones for people with way too much money [link]
• Stained Glass Photography [link]
• What's Radical About the Weblog Form in Journalism? [link]
• What if Photoshop was a web-service? [link]
• The Nanoputians [link]
• Dyslexia-friendly typeface [link]
• Unicode Primer [link]
• Shag Does the Enchanted Tiki Room [link]
• November - National Novel Writing Month [link]
• Tube Map with Walklines [link]
• Hangman for the Mentally Disabled (time waster) [link]
• Catch a Fly (time waster) [link]
• Monkey Moon Lander (time waster) [link]
• Office Space (time waster) [link]
• Free Sign Language Course [link]
• Undy Rug (and it's just $20.00! Why are you waiting?) [link]
• The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products [link]
• A Paper iPod (for those who can't afford the real thing).
  The original link was gone, but the Wayback Machine had it. [link]

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( Aug 24 2005, 07:20:37 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Favorite BoingBoing Links (September 2003)

• A Place so Foreign and Eight More - Cory Doctorow [link]
• Fanimatrix: stunning Matrix fan-film [link]
• TCP over bongo-drum [link]
• World Beard and Moustache Championships [link]
• Google File System paper [link]
• Classic Comic Book Advertisments [link]
• Free Monopoly Money PDF's [link]
• Pirate Glossary [link]
• What's My Pirate Name (Mine is "Mad Morty Rackham") [link]
• English to Pirate Translator [link]
• Virtual Museum of Bacteria [link]
• iPod Billboard Parodies [link]
• QTVR: the iPod car [link]
• Joy of 404 [link]
• Amazing Amazing Grace [link]
• Gallery of Vintage Magic Posters [link]
• QTVRs: WTC, 9/11/2001, + 10 [link 1] [link 2]
• Retro Rayguns and Robots Sculpted from Junk [link]
• Numbering Systems and Place Values (no wonder I get so confused) [link]
• Eye candy or eye drugs? [link]
• Mullet Haiku [link]
• Erupting Volcano QTVR panoramas [link]
• Match the Kittens [link]
• 36 Human-Competitive Results Produced by Genetic Programming [link]
• Bad Toon Rising [link]

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( Aug 23 2005, 07:10:28 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [1]

Favorite BoingBoing Links (August 2003)

• The Insect Company - Oddities and rarities [link]
• Prisoners Inventions [link]
• MIT Everyware - Every lecture, every handout, every quiz. All online. For free. (Wired article) [link] [MIT Open Courseware Link]
• Cool Japanese Watches [link]
• Saran Wrap can turn your laptop screen 3D (white paper) [link]
• Naked Chicks! - Hummingbird Nest Photos [link]
• Reanimating the Dead [link]
• A Learning Robot: Adam in Eden [link]
• Panoramic QTVR: the Matterhorn [link]
• The Stellar Acting Career of Troy McClure (from the Simpsons Archive) [link]
• Adventures in Reflected Surfaces - The Mirror Project [link]
• Robostrider - a tiny Robot from MIT that walks on water. [link]
• The Terry Pratchett Discworld Reading Order Guide [link]
• Weebl and Bob - Papier Mache [link]
• Food Portraits [link]
• Crop Art (as in made with seeds) [link]

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( Aug 22 2005, 06:45:05 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Favorite BoingBoing Links (July 2003)

• Fonts, Fonts, Fonts! [link]
• Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness [link]
• Guerilla Parenting [link]
• QTVR Panorama: underwater wonderlands [link]
• Etch-a-Sketch [link]
• Reverse-engineer Flash with freeware [link]
• The making of an online short: Rustboy [link]
• The Dodge Tomahawk Motorcycle Concept Review [link]
• Tile Machine [link]
• The World's Tallest Virtual Building [link]
• City Creator [link]
• Icon Town [link]
• Dissertation Could Be Security Threat [link]
• Origami - The Fold-and-Cut Problem [link]
• Lego - Block Death - A Museum of Horrors [link]
• QTVR panorama: Chapel of Jean Cocteau [link]
• 50th Anniversary of the Pixel [link]
• ASCII Movies, Pictures, Animation and Art [link]

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( Aug 19 2005, 07:12:43 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Favorite BoingBoing Links (June 2003)

• Modern Iconography Rendered as Pre-Columbian Sculpture [link]
• Toaster PC Mod [link]
• Wrecked Exotic Car Gallery - so you can feel slightly better when you get your first ding in your brand new car. [link]
• Modular Robotics [link]
• Nano Guitar [link]
• Martha's Jail as Envisioned by Photoshoppers [link]
• Aurora Australis, as seen from Space [link]
• Scary Clown Gallery [link]
• Japanese Truck Transformer-like Mods. [link]
• How to Make Business Card Cubes [link]
• Avida, a graphic, open-source toolkit for experimenting with artificial life [link]

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( Aug 18 2005, 06:54:55 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [1]

Favorite BoingBoing Links (May 2003)

• All About Ants [link]
• Digital Animation of SARS Virus [link]
• Turn a Floppy into a Klingon Ship [link]
• How does Dyson make water go uphill? [link]
• Kitty - Keyboard Independent Touch TYping [link]
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Infocom Adventure [link]
• Developing a New Kind of Science Website as a Software Project Course by Rudy Rucker [link]
• Orisinal Games (I think I've linked this before but it's too good to miss) [link]
• Rock-paper-scissors-Spock-lizard [link]
• Hugo Nominated Fiction online [link]
• How to Hurt the Hackers: The Scoop on Internet Cheating and How You Can Combat It [link]
• George "Shrub" Bush Resume [link]
• Researchers develop techniques for computing Google-style Web rankings up to five times faster [link]
• 99 Bottles in 772 Languages (was 515 languages when blogged in May 2003) [link]
• The Beauty of CSS Design [link]
• The Deepest Photo Ever Taken [link]
• String Figures From Around the World [link]
• Inflatable Museum [link]
• Tiburonia granrojo - red jellyfish discovered [link]
• Why is a raven like a writing desk? [link]
• :: oblique strategies:: to help the blocked creative process [link]
• Rob's Amazing Poetry Generator (doesn't like our Sun blogs) [link]
• Plants as Architecture [link]
• Alan Kay at ETech 2003 [link]
• Dress Your Gay Dog [link]
• Pets With Their Heads in Bags of Food [link]
• ShapeTape Will Enhance Computer Interaction (yeah, right) [link]

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( Aug 17 2005, 06:50:04 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [7]

Favorite BoingBoing Links (April 2003)

• Elephant Art Gallery [link]
• Space Station Moon Movie [link]
• Two gonzo hacker books free under Creative Commons license [link]
• You're In Control (Urine Control) [link]
• Bzzzpeek - a collection of 'onamatopoeia' from around the world using sound recordings from native speakers imitating the sounds of mainly farm animals. [link]
• The MegaPenny Project - visualizing huge numbers using pennies [link]
• The UNIX-HATERS Handbook (note this is over ten years old) [link]
• Phoons Around The World [link]
• City of Tomorrow - Futuristic Buildings [link]
• London at Night (as shown from Space). [link]
• Things Going Squish on My Scanner [link]
• Drinking Tea in Zero-G (with chopsticks) [link]
• DRM makes it damned hard on the disabled [link]
• WIRED Magazine - The Wifi Revolution (special edition of the magazine on WiFi) [link]
• Setting up a Home Soda Fountain [link]
• Make a Starship Enterprise out of a Floppy [link]
• Back Yard Roller Coaster [link]
• The Internet ABC’s - what do you get if you Google through the alphabet, one letter at a time, and look at the top result? This was April 2003. [link]

  It would be interesting to setup something to automatically do this. Oh wait. I can. Another project to add to my TODO list.

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( Aug 16 2005, 03:24:04 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Favorite BoingBoing Links (March 2003)

• Snow Crystal Photographs [link]
• A Collection of Ice Photography [link]
• File Compression: New Tool for Life Detection? [link]
• If Imagineers opened a furniture store [link]
• Top Ten Digital Photography Tips [link]
• The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (to fiction what IMDB is to movies) [link]
• Military Laptop That's Dishwasher Safe [link]
• How Trackback Works [link]
• Chemistry Comes Alive! [link]
• Dog Bites AIBO [link]
• Michael Larsen, Game Show Legend [link]
• Notes on Reading an Electronic Book [link]
• The Periodic Table of Haiku [link]
• Bar Code Art [link]
• Rubik's Cube Art [link]
• String Art [link]
• Pencil Carving Gallery [link]
• Nanoscale padlock [link]
• Starting Fire With an Ice Lens [link]
• Fly with Implanted Webserver [link]
• Cool Bullet Pictures [link]
• George Orwell's Works Online [link]

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( Aug 15 2005, 06:51:26 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Favorite BoingBoing Links (February 2003)

• Sand Art [link]
• The Market-O-Matic (crank out crap) [link]
• New York Songlines - Virtual Walking Tours of Manhattan Streets [link]
• Soap Bubbles in Space: Cool Online Experiment Logs [link]
• Gonnae Help Computers Learn Glesca Patter, Hen? (Scottish accents incomprehensible to speech-to-text algorithms) [link]
• Large Mech. Wolf Costume (just in time for Halloween if you start now) [link]
• These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed [link]
• Interactive Fiction Archive [link]
• Grover (the Sesame Street character) is Bitter [link]
• Welcome to the Pong-Story (the first video game) [link]
• GUI Gallery (many flashbacks) [link]
• Daily covers of 150+ newspapers [link]
• Modern Ruins: rusting bones of themeparks [link]
• Levitated's open source generative art (very cool) [link]

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( Aug 12 2005, 06:58:58 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Favorite BoingBoing Links (January 2003)

A lot more links are active now. So are the BoingBoing bloggers.

• Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Java applet progressively zooming in on our Universe [link]
• At Home Imagineering - Create Your Own Disney Magic! [link]
• Aussie RocketCam Model Rocket Onboard Inflight Video Camera link [link]
• A "Unified Theory" For Calculus [link]
• What's My IP Address? [link]
• Ex Libris Anonymous - cuts the covers off of discarded library books and rebinds them with spiral binding to form the covers of notebook/sketchbooks. [link]
• Terragen - Photorealistic Scenery Rendering Software [link]
• Kevin Kelly's Asia Grace - many beautiful photographs of Asia (there's a book too) [link]
• Get Kitty Litterate! - all about Cat Litter (I told you I was a cat person). [link]
• "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush (the original hyper-text paper from 1945). [link]
• NetLogo - a programmable modeling environment for simulating natural and social phenomena. [link]
• Plant Spirals: Beauty You Can Count On [link]
• Digital Mona Lisa (made with digits) [link]
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (one of the BoingBoing'ers) [link]
• Recursive (Dramamine Recommended) [link]
• Mona Lisa (from freaky-flash) [link]
• The Classic Weeeeee! (don't go there if you are easily offended) [link]
• Snake Robots [link]
• Hacking Your Roomba Vac. [link]
• Street-level walking photoguide to London shops, bars, restaurants [link]
• First truly artificial organism engineered [link]
• Vintage topo maps online [link]
• 50 ft Target Lava Lamp [link]
• ArtBots - the Robot Talent Show [link]
• Pikachu Hors d'oeuvres (our son will get a kick out of this) [link]
• MHP - the Test Card Gallery [link]
• I Have No Words & I Must Design - Game Design Primer [link]
• Old Plane Graveyard [link]
• Foreign Groceries Musuem [link]
• Handmade Pinhole Paper Cameras [link]
• Henry Lim's LEGO Sculptures [link]

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( Aug 11 2005, 06:37:49 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Favorite BoingBoing Links (December 2002)

• A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia (helpful for Scrabble fans) [link]
• Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity Explained In Words of Four Letters or Less [link]
• Star Wars Origami [link]
• Natural Disasters and Accidents as Art [link]
• Greg Egans Stories Online (Aussie SF Writer) [link]
• Samuel Pepys Diary as a Blog (New Entries Every Day) [link]
• Mona Lisa Images in the Modern World [link]
• Legos Enacting Bible Verses [link]
• OSXII - an Apple //e emulator for Mac OS X utilizing Cocoa and OpenGL [link]
• Invisible actors guessing game [link]
• Beethoven's 9th Symphony Stretched to 24 hours [link]
• Katinka Matson's Scanner Photography [link]
• Balloon Hats From Around The World [link]
• Six Degrees of Separation from Elvis [link]
• SodaPlay - fun Java-toy -- sketch out skeletal, jointed constructions, tweak the physics of gravity and friction, and set it in motion. [link]
• Virtual Crop Circles [link]
• Look Down! What's Beneath Marc Schiller's Feet [link]
• Optical Camouflage [link]
• Exploding Buildings! [link]

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( Aug 10 2005, 06:45:54 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Favorite BoingBoing Links (November 2002)

• Original Video by Doug C. Engelbart et al of the Computer Mouse. [link]
• The 1930 DeMoulin Bros. & Co. Fraternal Supply Catalog No. 439 [link]
• A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M. Banks [link]
• Sculptures from the Colored Heads of Matches by Artist David Mach [link]
• The Great American Dollar Bill Locator [link]
• All-terrain WheelChair [link]
• Googlefight [link]
• Domino Artwork [link]
• Wonderful Hubcap Sculptures [link]
• Amazon Reviews by Newt Gingrich [link]
• British Pathe News Online Archives [link]
• International Childrens Digital Library [link]
• A Gallery of Float Pens [link]
• Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character [link]
• Horses A cappella [link]
• Cool Welding Helmets [link]
• Mad Magazine Lampoons The Onion [link]
• The Human Swiss Army Knife (more like a hernia waiting to happen) [link]
• Gar's Tips on Sucks-Less Writing [link]
• Internet Bear Poops Prime Numbers [link]
• How to Dance Gothic [link]
• London Tube Alfred Hitchcock Mosaics [link]
• The Most Beautiful Periodic Table Displays in the World [link]
• Online X-Face Converter (which mentions faces - whoppee!) [link]
• Evil Clown Generator [link]
• The Voynich manuscript

  ...is the most mysterious of all texts. It is seven by ten inches in size, and about 200 pages long. It is made of soft, light-brown vellum. It is written in a flowing cursive script in alphabet that has never been seen elsewhere. Nobody knows what it means.

  [link]

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( Aug 08 2005, 06:37:15 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [1]

Favorite BoingBoing links (October 2002)

I'm seeing a change in the BoingBoing style about now. Slightly less self-promotion and rants. More focus on links to interesting things. Also a lot more live links. Previously, I'd guess that only 1 in 5 links were good. Xeni Jardin has now also joined the BoingBoing mix, and added another flavour to their excellent blog.

• Mean Kitty Gallery [link]
• The Calvin Pelorian Cat Project (you can just tell I'm a cat person can't you?) [link]
• Token TV - Television Time Manager [link]
• Turn Photos of Celebrities into Zombies (with Photoshop) [link]
• Googlism.com - will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything!.
• Javascript Button Games [link]
• 20 Things 20 People 20 Days [link]
• The enigma of Liverpool's labyrinth [link]
• rec.arts.henson+muppets Frequently Asked Questions [link]
• Dry Ice and Airplane Toilets Don't Mix [link]
• QuickTime Movie to ASCII Animator (for Mac OS X) [link]
• The World of Fruit Labels [link]
• Patent Art from some of Edison's Inventions. [link]
• Online books by authors that have died more than 50 years ago. Warning - restricted access in some countries [link]
• Make Your Own Lava Lamp [link]
• Lost in Translation - what happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages [link]
• Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions [link]
• Kite Aerial Photography [link]
• Great Balloon Twisters Gallery [link]
• Professional LEGO Sculpting and Mosaic Building (where can I get a job like that?) [link]
• Lego Harpsichord [link]

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( Aug 05 2005, 06:43:50 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Favorite BoingBoing links (September 2002)

• The clockwork computer [link]
• The Skycar [link]
• Oldversion.com because newer is not always better [link]
• The First Smiley :-) [link]
• Lots of Robots Two: Amazing web short-film [link]
• Archive of answering machine greetings [link]
• Create Crash Diorama's with your Bonsai [link]
• 2002 Hugo Award Nominees (many stories online) [link]
• Amazing Verbal Kung-Fu [link]

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( Aug 04 2005, 05:55:09 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink