Don't Miss
- BBtv - Pesco and "Eccentric Genius," Xeni zapped, ironic t-shirts: More Maker Faire 2008.
- BBtv - Google's "Great Firewall of China": Fun with the Billboard Liberation Front and monochrom
- BBtv - Cory Doctorow: Show us your "Little Brother" HOWTO videos, and "Dumpster-Diving Philosopher."
- Untitled 1
- Boing Boing's Moderation Policy
- #boingboing IRC channel open for Happy Mutating
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the latest
- The legend of Mall Ninja
- What else to expect from WWDC besides the 3G iPhone?
- Brad Litwin's ball-catching "Rotapult"
- The SlomunnyV3: post-apocalyptic cyborg lemon
- Containership power strip design models manufacturing microcosm
- Syd Mead's "Sulaco" ship from Aliens just a big gun
- Portable ice cream floats with the Fizz Cup
- Rumor: Comcast to meter bandwidth. Good or bad thing?
- The Ringshot, a rubber band slingshot re-inforcement device for your fingers
- Pencil and eraser rings
latest episodes
- Pesco and the "Eccentric Genius," Xeni gets zapped, ironic t-shirts: More Maker Faire 2008.
- Google and China's "Great Firewall": Fun with the Billboard Liberation Front and monochrom
- Cory Doctorow: Show us your "Little Brother" HOWTO videos, and "Dumpster-Diving Philosopher."
- Kevin Kelly: "Asia Grace," and A Thousand True Fans.
- BBtv "Hacker HOWTO": Cold Boot Encryption Attack
- Speed Racer's "photo-anime" hyperreality: John Gaeta interview, part 2.
- Combat robots, warring battleships: Xeni at Maker Faire
- Star Simpson's fuzzy logic, MacGyver, MIT lasers, and trippy glasses: Maker Faire with Phil Torrone
- Joel Johnson Wilderness Internet Experience
- Animation: Syd Garon and DJ Qbert, and Jon Burgerman's "Magic Ink"
Some conventions are focused exclusively on filk:
Ohio Valley Filk Fest: (http://www.ovff.org/)
GAFilk: (http://www.gafilk.org/)
Other conventions have a strong filk track along with the usual writers, gaming, demos, and art panels:
FenCon (http://www.fencon.org) (In Dallas)
ApolloCon (http://www.apollocon.org) (In Houston)