It was my impression, from basically every Hindenberg documentary I've seen, that it wasn't so much the hydrogen that made it so "explody," but the rocket fuel they painted on the outside of it.

AUDREY!

I bought a couple kids at my school's Student Senate Slave Day and made one of them pull up pine saplings and plant them on the school grounds. I guess that makes me a guerilla gardener.

Only one weak little guy is still there. They're been mowing around it for me.

Hopefully whoever is supposed to pick him up doesn't forget.

Save Luis!

A few of my friends in Von Ahn's class have been inviting people to Facebook groups because he made wagers with the students that they couldn't get something like 1500 people to join the group in 24 hours. They managed to do it, but some of these guys were calling everyone they knew.

AH! I'm so jealous! I wish I had a gigapan machine! It wouldn't provide precise enough movements for the giant photo I wanted to take that was on BBGadgets, but it's awesome nonetheless.

I may look up the team working on it at Carnegie Mellon to consult them about panorama stitching in Solaris. The only article I've found so far is an 8 year old project done at Stanford.

I almost bought a set of these in Switzerland a few years ago. They made them then, and I was under the impression that they still do. I used to have a catalog around here.

The company made a whole steam railroad set. I think the tiny shop is for making pieces for the railroad set. Or just being awesome.

Interesting, I hadn't seen that Greg's project before. Very impressive. I got my information from Wiki about HAL9000. As far as I could find, the Last Supper image is in fact the largest at the moment.

The current robot would have left un-photographed areas of the chalkboard. Also, I was concerned that some things might fall off of where they were attached. Yes, it would have been possible to fix. Yes, it could have been done right then. However. I have spent a considerable amount of time working on this project, including several late nights. Ian and I have decided for the sake of our sanity and for the sake of our academic grades that we need to take a break from this project.

Our current plan is to redesign the robot over the summer and come back to build it next year. We hope to achieve a more precise robot and to spread the work out over a much longer period of time. I started building this robot just last week, and that is clearly not enough time to do something of this scale. I may or may not talk about the process leading up to this point and why I think it failed, but not in a comment.

If nothing else, I hope to have failed gracefully.

The description is the best. "[C]onstruct the latest must have, do-it-yourself hacks, whiz-bang gizmos and techno do-dads."

So much hyphenation. "Whiz-bang".

As if spies haven't had cameras in buttons, coats, hats, umbrellas and purses before. Only now it's digital.

Spongebob is awesome. The references and commentary on society are freaky. Where it gets really freaky is when you start to watch lots of cartoons, you find out that the voices for these characters are either very famous actors and actresses or are the same person over and over again.

Ms. Frizzle is Lily Tomlin, and we need more Magic School Bus.
Tomy Kenny does not only Spongebob, but hundreds of other voices from Spyro the Dragon to Yancy Fry in Futurama. Tell me that's not awesome.

We should make a collaborative children's show. All like science and sweetness. My mom's a sixth grade science and math teacher, so my brother has been making videos for her class for a while and I give lectures. It's a blast.

I'm too skinny for most watches to fit comfortably on my arm. I usually have to poke extra holes in them and strap them on extra tightly. For this reason I don't wear watches as often as I'd like.

Yeah, that's all well and good, but how about the issue of being able to completely change the ownership of the computer and make a new administrator account? Here's a link to a post on my old blog where I show you how to do just that: http://mustardhamsters.blogspot.com/2007/07/create-new-administrator-user-in-mac-os.html I'll do a rewrite with a video of this on my main blog if you want.

Physical access to a computer can get you almost anywhere. You should make sure to have an open firmware password set, and to always log out or sleep your computer with password protection when you're away. Most Mac users don't set up password protection correctly, and almost no one has an open firmware password set. It takes less than 10 minutes to completely change the ownership of the computer using my method, probably closer to 5. This actually forced the Maine Laptop Initiative to change their distribution protocols for their most recent run of laptops.

What has gotten you so interested in Maine lately? I'm from Maine, and there's definitely a lot of good original stuff going on there, but I wouldn't think much of it would garner this sort of attention.

If you want, I can tell you some great stories. Crazy ones.

Must've tried to change it to 2007 and hit y instead.

We haven't had an October 2008 yet.

My high school classes were held in the same building as the elementary school. There were lots of piggyback rides, helping first graders tie their shoes, and little kids following you around. We named one after the game show host "Chuck Woolery".

Since the kindergarten class was on the way to class, we got to see what they were doing in class on the walls. There was "What's your favorite kind of potato?" (I lived in Limestone, Maine), but I think the best was "What's your favorite body part?" That yielded such gems as "I like my lungs. They help me to swallow food", "I like my legs", and "I like my brain. There are dreams in there".

Kindergarteners are pretty epic.

Congratulations! How wonderful!

On the AP Calculus tests you're allowed to bring in TI variety calculators. These are all programmable, which means you can either code in helpful hints or code programs that will solve problems for you.

The main thing about this is that the actual act of coding these things in makes you remember the material better. I never used these things on the test, but I still got a 5 on the AP (after an awful lot of work). When you write a program to solve a problem you have a significantly better understanding of its inner workings.

Yeah, I'm surprised you guys didn't know that. I carried my new iMac on board from Boston to Pittsburgh and I had to remove it from the case. There was no trouble though, the longest part of the inspection was when they had to call the head supervisor over to gawk at my computer. He told me he wants to switch to a Mac.

Hooray for Maine! This is what, the third thing you guys caught on there this week? You've been missing some great stories, let me tell you. My friends seem to think they're not "appropriate conversation" but whatever.

Born Standing Up is fantastic. Steve Martin's novels, movies, and comedy records are good on their own, but I gained a new sort of appreciation for them after getting the back story on their birth first hand. Especially as a beginning comedian, his analysis of what comedy is articulates a lot of things I had only approached myself.

This is probably my second favorite autobiography, after the collection of Richard Feynman's memoirs into Classic Feynman. I've been loaning that book out like mad ever since.

Check into Steve Martin's comedy acts on YouTube before and after reading the book. Your perspective on his act changes drastically, especially on bits like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI--TGQGNFc

I have a really old copy of Struwwelpeter at home in the original German. It's pretty creepy, so much so that you have to laugh at it.

These are great, but I always get this deep bass hum in the audio. It really sounds terrible, and doesn't happen with anything else and only in the live recording segments. Have you tried removing background sound at all?

How do you lose something like that?

I mean, I lose socks and underwear in the dryer all the time, but as far as I know they don't release 15 megatons of energy.

Go CMU!

Has this ever actually happened? Maybe it should...

So that's where crop circles come from.

Fungus Amungus on Instructables posted this project back in January. His uses a circular whiteboard so you can write in your latest thought.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Portable-Thought-Bubble/

Shoot yourself in the foot.

Hi Boing Boing,

I'm ecstatic that you've posted my project on your site. Seriously, I'm going to blow up. The link you've included though is not my actual website. That page was created to handle the overflow from Hackaday.

If you would please change that link to: http://mustardhamsters.com/?p=58 I would really appreciate it.

Thanks very much.

Dean