HOWTO use TOR to enhance your privacy
Here’s the final installment in the amazing Instructables series of HOWTOs inspired by my young adult novel Little Brother. This week, it’s a HOWTO on TOR, The Onion Router, a technology for increasing your privacy and anonymity when you look...
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund fundraiser in NYC with Little Brother!
We’ve just announced the first of two events in New York as part of the book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother: a charity fundraiser for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at the nightclub Comix. The CBLDF is a fantastic organization who...
Little Brother at Seattle’s All For Kids and More this afternoon
This afternoon on the Seattle leg of my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother, I’ll be at All For Kids Books and More. I’m here for one more day, coming to Third Place Books on Tuesday, then it’s on to San Francisco. Hope...
BBtv "Hacker HOWTO": Cold Boot Encryption Attack
Xeni visits the offices of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and speaks with Jake Appelbaum and Bill Paul, two of the authors of a security research paper that shows how your computer’s memory can be tricked into revealing data you thought was...
Passively Multiplayer Online Game launches — using game-scoring to keep track of and expand how you browse
Justin Hall and Merci Hammon’s networked browser-game PMOG (Passively Multiplayer Online Game) just launched after a solid beta period. The idea is to encourage people to be more adventurous and smarter when they browse the web, by awarding points...
BBC sends legal threat over fan’s Dr Who knitting patterns
Glyn sez, “Mazz has been posting knitting patterns to help other people re-create characters from the cult series using only two sticks and ball of wool. Impressive? The BBC, producers of the series, didn’t think so. They sent Mazz a letter,...
BBtv — Combat robots, warring battleships: Maker Faire
Boing Boing tv’s embedded robo-combat reporter Xeni Jardin witnesses warfare inside Robogames and Combots at Bay Area Maker Faire 2008, where robots battle until death — or at least ’til one competitor busts a sprocket. Next, BB-gun...
BBC sends legal threat over fan’s Dr Who knitting patterns
Glyn sez, “Mazz has been posting knitting patterns to help other people re-create characters from the cult series using only two sticks and ball of wool. Impressive? The BBC, producers of the series, didn’t think so. They sent Mazz a letter,...
BBtv — Combat robots, warring battleships: Maker Faire
Boing Boing tv’s embedded robo-combat reporter Xeni Jardin witnesses warfare inside Robogames and Combots at Bay Area Maker Faire 2008, where robots battle until death — or at least ’til one competitor busts a sprocket. Next, BB-gun...
HOWTO Bake a killer Yoda cake
Bonnie sez, “When Star Wars artist Chris Trevas told us his girlfriend and foodie blogger Julie Foxworthy baked him a one-of-a-kind Yoda birthday cake, I was super-impressed! So I asked Julie how she went about making this edible tribute so fans...
Self-winding air-turbine watch
The Urwerk UR-202 watch uses a pair of tiny spinning air-turbines to wind itself: The UR-202’s twin turbines are coupled with the winding rotor. According to the position of the selector lever, the turbines act as shock absorbers. In normal activity...
Odd camphone plaque in Toronto
This curious plaque was apparently photographed on the streets of Toronto. Link UPDATE: This and other similar plaques were part of an art installation by 640 480 Video Collective. Link Read More →
Window stickers with cell phone number
In some South Korean cities, it’s so common to double park that car owners have nice stickers in their windows announcing their mobile phone numbers. I’ve seen people do this in the U.S. with hand-scribbled notes, but never as a permanent,...
Feature film based on "GUIDOLON The Giant Space Chicken DIRECTOR’S CUT"
Hugo-award-winning science fiction artist Frank Wu writes in with the astounding news that he’s adapting his short film, “GUIDOLON The Giant Space Chicken DIRECTOR’S CUT” (”The long-awaited Director’s Cut of GUIDOLON...
Cory and Randall "XKCD" Munroe at 3PiCon in Springfield, MA, Aug 22-24
I’m one of the guests of honor at this summer’s Pi Con, the annual science fiction convention held Aug 22-24 in West Springfield, MA, appearing alongside of Randall Munroe, the creator of the brilliant geek webcomic XKCD. I’m really...
Boing Boing tv: S.P.A.M. Theater
In today’s edition of Boing Boing tv, dramatic readings of real-life unsolicited emails. Part one, HOWITZER CANNONPANTS, a spiritual and pharmaceutical parable that ends not with ressurection, but erection. Part two, THANKS, MAURICE, one of dozens...
EFF Pioneer Awards tomorrow night in San Diego at ETech
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Richard Esguerra sez, If you live in Southern California or happen to be going to ETech in San Diego, come and hang out at the EFF Pioneer Awards fundraiser on Tuesday night! This year, the winners are the...
Filmstrips scanned — WWII Navy films, Alaska travelogue, anti-Japan propaganda
John’s been spelunking in filmstrips from the Goodwill, putting up high-res, color-corrected scans of strips ranging from “a 1935 travelogue of Alaska, A very racial one called “The Jap His Honorable Self’ and much information...
London Zoo exit sign
Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels over the years: this shot of the brick wall near the rear exit of the London Zoo in Regent’s Park. I love the signage from three different eras, and the erupting thick black wires that look like...