Boing Boing Gadgets is having a pretty interesting competition in collaborations with Seagate: readers are invited to submit art, writing, code, whatever - as long as the size is 1 kilobyte or less!
This one to the left is Gabriel McGovern's 1K rendering of the Mona Lisa.
We've posted about the attack of Jedi Master Jonba Hehol (known to his friends and family as 36-year-old hairdresser Barney Jones and founder of the Jedi Church in Holyhead, Wales) by a drunken "Darth Vader" before.
Well, the BBC has a video clip of the attack:
Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, from Holyhead, Anglesey, admitted assaulting Barney Jones and cousin Michael with a metal crutch. They suffered minor injuries.
Hughes, who was drunk and dressed in a black bin bag, shouted "Darth Vader!"
Earlier, when Hughes failed to arrive on time, District Judge Andrew Shaw issued an arrest warrant, adding: "I hope the force will soon be with him."
Link - Thanks Raul and Jeff!
Remember the people who throws those cans around with amazing precision? Well, thanks to viral videos, they've apparently managed to parlay their skills into making an ad for Max Havelaar, a non-profit foundation organization promoting Fairtrade.
Regardless of the ad's message, which is in French anyway, you can still enjoy the visuals: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]
"Don't worry about temptation. As you grow older, it starts avoiding you."
- Elbert Hubbard, writer and artist
Meet Pierre, a 25-year-old Jackass penguin (because they bray like donkeys) who got too cold to swim because he was going bald. So, the biologists at the California Academy of Sciences made him a penguin wetsuit!
Pierre, a venerable 25 years old, was going bald, which left him with an embarrassingly exposed, pale pink behind.
Unlike marine mammals, which have a layer of blubber to keep them warm, penguins rely on their waterproof feathers. Without them, Pierre was unwilling to plunge into the academy's penguin tank and ended up shivering on the sidelines while his 19 peers played in the water.
"He was cold; he would shake," said Pam Schaller, a senior aquatic biologist at the academy. [...]
Staff at Oceanic Worldwide, a supplier of dive gear based in San Leandro, were enthusiastic about making a real penguin suit.
"We were really excited to do it," said Teo Tertel, company marketing specialist. "We heard most of these penguins only live to 20, and our little buddy there was already 25. Anything we could do to help them, we were all for it."
And the wetsuit did Pierre a world of wonders:
One concern was that the other penguins would reject Pierre in his new duds, but in fact, they accepted his sleek new look.
Pierre was outfitted with the suit about six weeks ago. Since then, he has gained weight, grown back feathers on his hind parts and is again acting like his feisty, alpha-male self.
Link: News article at Yahoo! News by Michelle Locke (Photo: Eric Risberg/AP Photo) - Thanks Tiffany!
Chris of PyroElectro Microcontrollers has a DIY guide post on how to make your own Personal G-Force Meter:
The main application of the accelerometer is either for sensing tilt or sensing acceleration. For this application A G-Force meter for my car will be made to see how many "G's" I pull while driving.
I drive like a grampa, so I'm sure my Personal G-Force meter will flatline near zero: Link - thanks Chris!
In this Flash comic "Piggy Bank Pinko", Captain Capitalism explains why it's bad - heck, down right communistic - to save money.
Kid: Captain Capitalism! Wow! What are you doing here?
Captain Capitalism: I think the better question, son, is just what do you think you're doing here?
Kid: Putting money in my piggybank ...
CC: Cripping our nation by stagnating the economy and throwing us into another recession is more like it, commie!
http://67.15.182.229/piggybankpinko.html | Check out more Captain Capitalism by Brad Graeber | Captain Capitalism Blog - Thanks Mangesh!
This. Is. Just. Wrong.... Behold the Pimp Suit Halloween costume and, of course, the accompanying costume for mom.
For more bizarre toys and products for kids, check out the list at Cole's Toys blog: Link - Thanks John Hobby!
Meet 46-year-old Robert Horsley, who tried to burgle a house and foiled by a 95-year-old woman in a wheelchair armed with only a screwdriver:
It was 3 a.m. when a 95-year-old Bartlesville woman heard somebody break the glass on her front door and push the door open. When a hand came inside and tried to unlock the door, she stabbed it. Again and again.
She stabbed that hand many times over the next hour, say Bartlesville Police. The woman would not leave the door for fear the man would break in while she was calling for help. Eventually, the man gave up.
When police arrived, they found the bloody suspect passed out on the front porch with dozens of stab wounds to his lower arms and hands.
"What do you tell your friends in jail about where did you get those wounds, asks a neighbor, Gerri Lynn Grindle. "I don't know that he's going to tell anybody he got them from a little old lady confined to a wheel chair."
Link - Thanks Tiffany!
I know, I know ... it's a little cubicle joke that may or may not be funny to you, depending on A) if you work in a dilbert-esque corporation, B) how secure your job is, and C) whether you are a Bizarro-lover or Bizarro-hater.
Have a great weekend, and my fingers are crossed that you continue to think outside the box without having the box cleaned out by the end of the day.
A lot of people liked Judd Apatow's latest comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," which billboards peppered many cities in the US with sayings like "YOU SUCK, SARAH MARSHALL" and "MY MOTHER ALWAYS HATED YOU, SARAH MARSHALL."
Needless to say, the real life Sarah Marshalls weren't amused:
one of the several thousand real life Sarah Marshall’s in the U.S., this one from Greenfield, Massachusetts, has been seriously irked. "I was shocked to see all the billboards and posters that hated against me and people with my name," she says. “It’s just so bizarre.”
To say the least. "My friends are kind of picking on me about it,” she says of the in-Sarah's-face promotion campaign for the Judd Apatow-produced comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall [watch the movie trailer and see interviews with the film’s cast]. “I had a neighbor who said they saw all these 'I hate Sarah Marshall' signs, and I saw the TV commercials.” That’s when the snit hit the fan for this Sarah Marshall and she decided to mount her own campaign. Call it “the Marshall Plan.” She made her own sign. It said, “YOU SUCK JUDD APATOW.” (Source: Fancast by Quendrith Johnson, Photo: Sarah Marshall (duh!) at Fancast - Thanks Linnea!)
Another Sarah Marshall complains about the choice of words in the ads:
"When you're walking down the street, it gets a little wearing even though you know it's not you and has nothing to do with you," said Sarah Marshall, 34, who lives in Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan. "You see . . . words like 'hate' and 'suck' with your name over and over again. It just doesn't feel pleasant inside."
Her mother, 70, who has the same name, says she cannot wait until the movie debuts and the signs are taken down. "I'm very, very upset," the upper East Sider said. "I'm an old person. It's today's lingo and today's jargon but it's a little rough for my taste." (Source: NY Daily News article by Jessica Durando, Photo: Antonelli/News)
But not one particular Sarah Marshall was quite happy with all the attention: a professor of art at The University of Alabama, who owns SarahMarshall.com, is thankful of the 20,000 people who have (mistakenly) visited her website since the movie was promoted.
Now, in her own "Marshall Plan," Sarah Marshall (the professor) is asking all Sarah Marshalls of the world to unite in respond to the ad campaign!
Photo: hungryghoast [Flickr]
Flickr user hungryghoast snapped a photo of Flowing Pixels, a "pixel art" sculpture on the streets of New York University campus, by the Barney Building, in New York City.
Link - Thanks Andrew Dobrow!
Larry Langford, the mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, has declared today, Friday April 25th, 2008 as a "day of prayer in sackcloth and ashes" in response to the city's high homicide rates:
Birmingham Weekly reported two weeks ago that the mayor purchased 2,000 burlap sacks for ministers and other community leaders to wear at a Plan 10/30 summit.
To many Christians, sackcloth and ashes symbolize humility and repentance, but the mayor’s decree came dressed with the usual accoutrements - printed on fine, invitation-stock paper and wrapped in a bright silver folder, adorned by the magic hat logo Langford commissioned for the city last year.In the decree, Langford said that Birmingham’s crime problem “pails” (sic) in comparison to the biblical City of Nineveh.
The proclamation tells the Bible story of Jonah and the city of Nineveh: “Whereas Chapter 3, verse 5 & 6, of the Book of Jonah, Old Testament states, that the people of Nineveh believe God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least of them,” the resolution reads.
In the proclamation, the mayor puts himself parallel with the King of Nineveh (Jonah 3:7) who, wearing sackcloth and ashes, joined his citizens in prayer.
Link | Article at The Birmingham News - Thanks Charles K!
(Photo: acnatta [Flickr] - Thanks Andre!)Charlie Bit My Finger, Again is a strangely mesmerizing YouTube clip (viewed over 20 million times!) about two boys having fun. Well, okay, one boy - Charlie - had slightly more fun biting the finger of his older brother.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - watch the facial expression of Charlie's brother - Thanks Jerse!
That's it. Carry on. Move it a long ...
One minute he was having fun riding his bike, and the next he's sprawled on the driveway after wiping out ... and all captured by Google Street View:
Link - Thanks Ian Andrew Bell (nice meeting you on Web 2.0 conference, btw!)
