Another designer who only sees how cool and innovative something can be, not the actual real world application.

Perhaps if I could propel the pudding balloon out of some type of cannon it might sell. Kids, it's lunch time, open wide, BOOM.

Isn't this why we came up with recycling? REALLY?

I still find it amusing when people start to argue the fact we use so much resources.

I think everyone wants to be on the other side, where everyone gets to have a nice life, and the world is at peace, and everything is happy. But the reality right now is someone has to be on top. It just happens to be us. And for all the "nice" lifestyle we have, we will also have the burden of doing it first.

If you think it'll take all these 2nd world countries (lets say India) 50+ years to get where we are now you kidding yourself. We gave them a roadmap of how to do it, which makes everything so much easier.

When the resources start (or continue) to dry up, we will find a way to make things work. That means some other country doesn't spend a decade coming up with the same technology. They can just jump from one tech to another.

We might live in the "greatest country" of all, but sometimes that doesn't have it's perks.

It'd be awesome if you could carefully dissect one and motorize it some. Slap in a proximity sensor, and boom, instant "Oh good googlymoogly, that baby's in danger!"

I guess for "safety" sake you could have the kids head spin around every 30 seconds or so. Like that wouldn't freak people out either. They would probably break the window just to find out if it was a spawn of satan, and then hunt you down for the witch you are....

Oh, oh, radio controlled. Now that would make a great candid camera. Or hidden video, what would you do.

I'll make sure it's in my bag when they hall me off to my padded cell....

I thought someone was making these in "memory" of people's children who had died. Kind of a way to "immortalize" the child. Now that seems freakish to me.

As a side note, wikipedia is already updated with this.

I think if you buy one of these things you should get a years worth of psych counseling for free. That's just disturbing.

It would have been better if they had dubbed Killface from Frisky Dingo into it. That would have been awesome, boosh!

Wow, I think I'm in disbelief of all this.

I've been reading through a lot of these post (well the ones of any merit at least) and I don't really see why everyones undies are in a bunch.

Boingboing is a personal website, and not affiliated with published media (or legally speaking). So if your only source of news is boingboing, then that's your issue. Because when I see a unicorn chaser I totally think, "OMG they are so cute, where can I buy one?" Really, seriously?!...

I completely understand that the instigating factors are personal and do not need to be shared. And this is a personal blog that they can do with as they wish. Somehow the rest of the world doesn't get this. If they decide to stop boingboing tomorrow then it goes away, period. No amount of whining will fix it.

And the real reason I posted:

Personal boundaries: Look at VB's website, you get a feeling of what she does. Look at BB. See many similarities? There are basics, like personal freedom and such, but in general the themes are different. It's VERY possible VB has been taking her career and publishing path in a direction that differs from the direction BB should be on. Yes, yes, "They simply could have not published any more of her posts." Yeah they could have. Or maybe that (VB's direction) was just something they didn't need to be associated with anymore.

This is a directory of wonderful things, not the diary of the members of BB. This is the positive things they want to share with us, not the good and the bad and the ugly. Just things they find interesting.

I've been reading BB for several years now, and will continue. In my opinion the members of BB have not damaged their reputations or done anything that damages anyone else. There is no wrong here.

And that explains why Vista blows so hard.

I think I would have lost it if Bill just said, "WTF guys?, really?"

At that point, my hope in Microsoft and Bill Gates would have been restored, or at least it would make up for the fubar of Vista.

@#22

"3.75 oz is an awfully big serving."

If you are only eating 3.75 oz's, why are you even eating ice cream? I usually polish off 8 ounces or more at a time. I don't frankly care if it's bad for me, it's so tastey.

* Manufacturers of underwear finally realize that men have different-sized balls. *

LOL!

Oh that's great!

I think any type of "staged" act/teaching like this is going to do more damage than good, especially when dealing with teenagers. I am all for "shock" reality, but it needs to be real. If you want them to see the real consequences of drunk driving, guns, gangs, violence what ever take them down to the morgue or jail. Let them experience it, see it, feel it first hand. That will do more than any fake funeral or lying cop.

Teenagers do not readily trust adults, and a lot of that stems from the social/cultural disconnect that adults develop along the way. I've been out of high school a little over a decade and I am sure it isn't even close to the way it was. Making up disturbing stories and scaring them is not a way to get them to trust you.

Adults...I'm glad I'm not one of them (yet....)

Are you kidding me?! I would so do it. Having watched several grandparents go through the "fun-ness" of being old, I can say, "Do not want.". Not saying there isn't something dignified about growing old, but you cross a threshold at some point. A point, where it doesn't really matter if you didn't live life and do what you want, because you can't do it now.

If someone came to me and said, "Based on your family history and current physical condition we expect you to live to X, this will incur a rough cost of Y. We are willing to give you a percent of Y, if you say we can send you on your way at a certain time." Depending on what "time" that might be, I might be interested.

I guess some would say that's selfish and greedy, I think it's realistic and making the best out of a crap situation. You're lying to yourself if you say you actually WANT to end up in an old folks home.

I agree with everyone else, what is this special? This is MIT for crying out loud, I'd expect more, a lot more. If they said they we able to keep 80% of the original performance and a distance better than 200 miles per charge, that would be news worthy. Anyone with a good sense of mechanical ability, electrical know how, and a junker lying can do this. It's not really even that expensive (at least not in terms of developing something "high tech"). Electric cars are easy, building better components to make them viable, now that's the challenge.
MIT next year maybe you can get the EE's to team up with the Chem E's and build you better batteries.

Sounds like the guys that built the battle bot at my college. All I kept thinking was, "Have you actually watch the show??! This thing is going to get slaughtered. Fools." :-)

I don't really see how this would hold up to years of outdoor abuse. Most people don't take care of things indoors, much less things outdoors. I can see all kinda of crude getting into the tracks and slides. After a couple of years it's just going to be a pain to work.

Looking at the site Takuian posted I don't get it... I know Japan is much more spatially challenged than the U.S., but some of that stuff just seems like a waste. A top mounted dishwasher to make it easier to load and unload? What about all the crap from the counter top getting in around the lid? Do designers never think about how things interact with their environment? You go the easy to load/unload route, and then you go and stick storage space in the floor?

I guess I'm spoiled in America, but I think all washers are to small here already. I'd like to own something that can comfortably wash a kind size quilt/cover. I Maytag makes some commercial series that do this, but I can't imagine washing 2kg of clothes at a time.... I'd be washing something everyday.

To BK:

GreenDesign has some interesting things, but in general it would fall under what I might call modern arts and crafts. Check out www.stickley.com
Under their mission section you can see prime examples of this American style. My wife and I love. And stickley's been around over 100 years...

You people are so easily impressed. Arts and Crafts /Mission furniture has been doing similar techniques for over 100 years. It may not be the "snap tite" design, but most well designed mission furniture uses tenions with pegs, dovetail joints, and mortised guides. It's not really hard to make great furniture that uses very few (it any) mechanical fasteners, but it certainly costs more. I own a fair amount of Stickley furniture and if $500 for a 5 shelf book case is upsetting, then I suggest you not look at their website. Why spend $1500 at Rooms to Go (ect..) when it's going to fall apart in 10 years. I'd rather spend 5 times that and have it last 3 lifetimes.

And what do you call these woods?...

MDF, plywood, laminate, ect - not real wood
(the exception could be birch laminate over solid pine, but I wouldn't think that to be a good idea).
Solid any tree - real wood (cherry, birch, oak, even pine).

Oh and 3 cubic feet of solid wood...probably I'd call it firewood or planks. (3 feet is pretty short, no one would want to mill that, unless it was exotic).

You people are so funny.

I agree with most everyone's posts, but few have really explained why it happens. It is society...bigger faster, better, ect..

My parents have a vegetable garden, right now they have about 75 tomato plants. That'll probably yield upwards of 35-50 gallons of tomatoes. They eat a lot all summer long, give them away to neighbors and can the rest. Anyone who believes the bland worthless vegetables you buy in the grocery store are "real" you are fooling yourself. As far as I'm concerned you might as well give me genetically modified food if it can taste better than the real thing trucked half way around the world. NOTHING compares to a fresh off the vine fruit or vegetable. If you haven't grown it and eaten it, then you truly do not know what it really tastes like. I'm not vegan/fregan or any of that crap. I just like good food.

And what goes bad in the field? It gets thrown back into the field and becomes compost for next year. Is that waste? Is that bad? Sure if I order a large pizza eat one slice and throw the rest away, that's bad and wasteful. But there will always be some waste. Anything less than 5% would be amazing to me. (in terms of full life cycle, field to store to plate to trash).

So it's wikipedia for the those living off the grid.....

How do you get Hexen 2 and Heretic 2 from Quake or Quake 2? Hexen and Heretic both came before Quake 1... I suppose they might use the Quake or Quake 2 engines, but that seems a little derivative. Much like saying Half-Life came from Quake?...umm, right. I guess Quake came from Doom, which owes it's creation to Wolfenstein...which for all I know has some other epic roots.

Yes people all FPS are 99% the same, hence why we call them first person shooters, and not something else. My sarcasm, can you feel it?

After about an hour I think I'd just take the car back. I've been in much less crappy situations with my car, and have told the people out right, "Your time is up".

I think everyone is pretty much on the same page. Like I said before, it should be a tool (and a smarter tool would be better). But at the same time with little or no accountability, what stops anyone from looking out from themselves? The mortgage crisis exists for that simple reason, greed. And like everyone else has pointed out, here, it is pretty easy to shift the blame around. And what does that solve? Nothing, the real problem still exists, and no one is taking the blame. If you are the CEO/President of a large lending firm that bet it's bank and lost then tough. Someone has to pony up, and it's 100% unfair for the government to be using my tax dollars to bail out a company (especially companies with CEO's that make thirty times my pay). In lesser legal (more organized) types of business these situations tend to have a way of working themselves out. Usually not in a very kind or painless way, but the problem is rectified.

You can use computers all day long to tell you something is a bad idea, but if the person who makes the decision is not accountable, then it doesn't matter. Maybe all transactions will be handled only by computers in the future. All hail SkyNet!

Frankly the concept that an automated system gives you a go or no is just crappy. I can understand it being used as a tool to help the bank decide. If your rating comes back way in the NO category, obviously you have little to no chance. But if you are at the edge then doesn't not so common sense begin to kick in? I understand the bank doesn't want you to default on your loan, and them have to repo your house. But isn't that the checks and balance of the system? I don't want to loose my home....so I probably should only mortgage what I can pay. I guess logical thinking just doesn't work in the "real" world, with "normal" people. sigh...

I guess few people have read Cory's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. I totally see the condition going on everyday. I can even see myself slipping into it, little by little. While I do believe trust has to be earned, it also has to be given. Especially for an entity as large as Disney. True they are a corporation, and Disney World isn't public (as in terms of an "open space"), so technically then can do what they want. It that means subjecting everyone to a full roto-router cavity search, then to the back of the teeth it shall be. And you options? Limited at best, and futile at worst. Unfortunately in this world power is granted to those with money, not those with common sense.

Well something tells me if enough time passes, and or decides to do something with the property, the state would get involved. After some period if no one could produce the paper work it would probably be sold at auction by the state. More or less if no one has the actual deed to the house then I would assume by state law no one actually owns it.

It'd also be nice if the state charged him with squatting..... of course then he may get first right to purchase if it did go to auction....how ironic.

Most of these songs seem kind of weak. Okay, any of the theme songs would probably grate on my nerves after a bit but I doubt they would make me loose it. If they were looking for something more disturbing why not try Aphex Twin or something along those lines? Yeah, I could totally sleep through Come To Dadddy at 100db......

Wow, I hope the shower door isn't clear glass as well. It would just leave nothing to your imagination.

Mid 40's sounds about right to me. Wife, house, kids probably enter the teenage years. Yeah, I expect that's going to push all my buttons...hard.
And by late 50's, 60 well the kids will be gone, hopefully work will be winding down and life we come at a slower pace. Amazing how that works.

Well I'd like to apologize to the faithful readers of BoingBoing. I certainly didn't mean to start a flame/riot war here.

As several people were pointing out, it was simply a statement from Ishkur's guide to electronic music that "electronica" is simply a mass marketed term to make any form of electronic music more pleasing and accepting among the general public. Similar to the something like, rock, which encompasses probably tens (maybe hundreds) of sub-genres each with different qualities. I was in no way trying to imply electronic music isn't "real" music, far from it. Most of my music collection is some form of electronic music.

I'm still scratching my head as to why a website is classified as linkspam? It's not spam, nor am I affiliated with it, and have no personal gain from it. It seemed simplier to give people the address for something I thought might be comically relevant, than to say go to google look for ishkur and his guide to electronic music. For future reference I just won't post websites...

I just suppose my taste in humor must vary from that of the majority of BoingBoing readers. I guess anyone that found my comments offensive, or crap can simply ignore my future posts. And as the moderator pointed out:

Bcsizemo has a history of posting unexceptionable comments here.

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I agree with #3. I'm pretty sure it's just an air hose.

Since I work in a computer repair shop I've seen this message a couple of times for various issues with Adobe products. I will say for a company that makes such complex programs they at least seem to have a good tech support site (if you know what you are looking for).

Now only if they could learn from Microsoft and start making a bigillon versions of everything. New Adobe Photoshop Home Turbo Platinum Pro Uber Mega Edition w/Nube Starter Add-on Deluxe Trainer....sheez. MS, you just don't know how hard to it to explain Vista to someone. XP was bad enough, and for the love of god it doesn't HAVE to be Windows 2000 Professional. LIKE THERE WAS ANY OTHER?! NO, NO, I have Windows 2000 Basic?!?!?!?

I'm going to go hang my head and cry now.

You know that's why I refuse to have a footboard on my bed. I sleep face down and I can't stand to have my feet on the bed.

I actually think the phone thing is a very good example. You started out with a landline, technology built over the last 60+ years. When it's on it works, clear and simple. Then we progressed to cell phone. While still getting better, you do get static and now that irritating wh-- d-d -ou s--?
And most recently moving on to voip...where if your kid is torrenting you sound like you are using a cell phone in a farady cage... All that for "ease of use", "cheaper rates", more convience. You know we spent the better part of last century building the phone network, and honestly it works damn good.

While I don't side with you or Fox on this, you did put a picture on the internet. Personally, that seems about as close to public domain as actually printing the picture out and handing it to every person on the street. I suppose you could argue Fox used it for profit, but mehh...

And this is why very VERY few pictures exist of me on the intertubes.