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Boing Boing presents: Skeleton Boy, a moving short documentary about the...
Philadelphia's Mutter Museum (previously) is one of my favorite museums in the world: built from the private collection of pathologist Dr Thomas Dent (who aggregated the collections of many other...
View ArticleBeyond lockpicking: learn about the class-breaks for doors, locks, hinges and...
Deviant Ollam runs a physical security penetration testing company called The Core Group; in a flat-out amazing, riveting presentation from the 2017 Wild West Hackin' Fest, Ollam -- a master...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates makes the case for reparations to Congress
It's been five years since Ta-Nehisi Coates's groundbreaking The Case for Reparations ran in The Atlantic; yesterday, Coates appeared before Congress to celebrate Juneteenth with a barn-burning...
View ArticleLet's Play Permadeath Speedrun
Pippin Barr writes, "This is Season 2 of my video series Let's Play Permadeath Speedrun. In these videos I play various games trying to die (permadeath) as quickly as possible (speedrun). Beyond their...
View ArticleMake: a machine-learning toy on open-source hardware
In the latest Adafruit video (previously) the proprietors, Limor "ladyada" Friend and Phil Torrone, explain the basics of machine learning, with particular emphasis on the difference between computing...
View ArticleFootage from the Boing Boing Picnic, nine years ago today!
Billy Green writes, "This is video I shot at the Boing Boing Picnic in 2010. Music by Dr. Popular recorded live at the picnic." Such fantastic footage!
View Article"It's easy to play the Nazi card"
This video from Bohemian Browser Ballett on Germany's public broadcaster Funk is absolutely genius: a comic dialogue between a literal uniformed Nazi officer outraged that someone had the temerity to...
View ArticleStephen Fry explains the vast superiority of UK healthcare to America's...
After Brexit, Tory leaders are hoping to strike a bilateral trade agreement with the USA that will begin the dismantling of the NHS, starting with a ban on price-controls for pharma and open doors for...
View ArticleGoreytelling: Animations to go with Edward Gorey's narration of his life
In the 1990s, student filmmaker Christopher Seufert talked his way into Edward Gorey's life and convinced him to record a series of memoirs and tales from his life; the project blossomed into a...
View ArticleCookie Monster performs Tom Waits's "Hell Broke Luce"
7 years ago, I posted Cookiewaits's video mashup of Cookie Monster performing Tom Waits's "God's Away on Business," but I somehow missed that Cookiewaits followed it up the next year with this...
View ArticleSlime Tango: an inverse tug-of-war, played with blobs of slime
Anton Hecht writes, "Slime Tango is a new game, the cello is optional. It is an inversion of tug of war, as here the players work together, while going apart. So is also an inversion of dance where...
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Weird video of an entire day of security footage superimposed and compressed...
"A Busy Day in the Yard," superimposed security footage showing an entire day in two minutes. (via Geekologie)
View Article"Evermore": a short technohorror film about the struggle between...
Victoria Hogan writes, "My fiancee and I made a short film about creativity, yearning, and the scary forces of technology that might interact with those desires. More than a few people have called...
View ArticleArtist builds delightful, impractical Rube Goldberg machines for popping...
Jan Hakon Erichsen is a Norwegian artist whose Destruction Diaries series chronicles his creation of a series of bizarre, whimsical and delightful machines for popping balloons and undertaking other...
View ArticleTimelapse of the Milky Way with the sky held motionless and the Earth rotating
One of the smartest, most interesting people I ever knew once told me about a time when he got really interested in the problem of calculating the orbits of the planets based on the idea tha the Earth...
View ArticleAnthropodermic bibliopegy: the grotesque history of books bound in human skin
On the Under the Knife show, Dr Lindsey Fitzharris elucidates the weird history of "anthropodermic bibliopegy," the weird practice of binding books in human skin, including the doctor who bound case...
View ArticleInterview with Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue's labor reporter
Kim Kelly is Teen Vogue's labor columnist and has written a series of excellent pieces on labor politics for the #resistance glossy. Kelly has had a distinguished career as a journalist and a labor...
View ArticleDeepfake: Boris Johnson sings "Saddy Waddy"
Shardcore (previously), "I made a video for Saddy Waddy by The Private Sector using a new deepfake lipsync method to get Boris Johnson to sing the words." [Ed: Warning, strobe effects]
View ArticleHasan Minhaj roasts Justin Trudeau on climate hypocrisy
If Vladimir Putin didn't convince you that good pecs and hair do not qualify you to govern, I give you Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime ministerial princeling whose years in office have proven that...
View ArticleA symphony orchestra in masks and helmets perform for Hong Kong's protesters
The Black Blorchestra performs a gorgeous and stirring rendition of "Glory to Hong Kong" for an audience of protesters in HK, all dressed in the uprising's defacto uniform of masks and helmets....
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