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Provided by: boingboing.net462012-02-06 23:25:35blogs / boingboing.net /: [Video Link] "Camden council in north London have recently installed this talking camera that issues threats to residents at Walker House."

Provided by: gapingvoid.com481970-01-01 00:00:00blogs / gapingvoid.com /: Image: http://i.imgur.com/WoYGr.jpg Today Deep Silver revealed that Risen 2: Dark Waters (http://www.risen2.com/age-verification/) will get a collector's edition which will retail for An error was ecnountered attempting to get the RSS data: Page Not Found Do you know what's coming? Warner Bros. Pictures has announced the studio has extended its first-look deal with Todd Phillips' ("The Hangover" films) Green Hat Films through 2013 and revealed the company's upcoming projects: Warner Bros. Pictures has extended its first-look deal with writer/director/producer Todd Phillips"cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" [Sent out recently in the gapingvoid newsletter. Sign up here etc..]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com492011-12-28 20:07:25blogs / gapingvoid.com /: Thanks to Ben Nesvig for ordering a set of our gapingvoid business cards [You can get your own here…]. The gapingvoid business cards– my cartoons printed on the back, your personal details printed on the front– are designed to act like “Idiot Filters”. In other words, people who are cool seem to like them right away, [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net502012-02-06 22:52:57blogs / boingboing.net /: I had missed this sad news, but Dick Tufeld, the man who gave Robby the Robot his voice on Lost In Space, died last month. He was 85. Along with his famous catchphrase "Danger, Will Robinson!" and the intro to Lost In Space, Tufield's voice was also heard at the beginning of "Voyage To The [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net512012-02-06 22:18:17blogs / boingboing.net /: This restored 1957 home movie of a Disneyland visit, from the Disney History Institute, is an absolute treat. I love the rare footage of the Frontierland pack-mules and the Jungle Cruise as it was before the jungle really grew in; I'm likewise captivated by the sight of the (by modern standards) harshly metallic and dangerous-looking [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net522012-02-06 22:12:19blogs / boingboing.net /: A welcome White House petition for our American readers' consideration: a request to make the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty negotiation more transparent. This bland-sounding treaty is, in fact, the successor to ACTA, negotiated in the strictest secrecy. A recent leak from the TPP smoke-filled rooms revealed that negotiators are considering regulating incidental copies made in buffers, [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net532012-02-06 21:46:40blogs / boingboing.net /: Gweek is a weekly podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My hosts on episode 38 are Dean Putney, Boing Boing's coding and development wizard, Boing Boing alum Joel Johnson of Animal New York, [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net542012-02-06 21:29:54blogs / boingboing.net /: Stop-motion film about an entomologist's nightmare MikeyP sez, "Filmmaker friends of mine have a lovely melancholy stop-motion film (about a tiny entymologist with a lightbulb for a head) they're hoping to get into the Australian short film festival Tropfest via the audience vote.If you have a second, and feel so inclined, pray click the link, [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net552012-02-06 20:42:08blogs / boingboing.net /: Here is OK Go's excellent video for "Needing/Getting." And yes, it was done "in partnership" with the maker of that particular car. According to the video description, the car "was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net562012-02-06 20:00:33blogs / boingboing.net /: My friend and oft-times workshop mate Tom Marcinko, a very talented writer and critiquer, has just put seven of his previously published sf stories into the Kindle store for what he calls "the amazingly low price of absolutely nothing." He's getting back to work on new fiction after a long hiatus, and this is his [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net572012-02-06 19:27:33blogs / boingboing.net /: This is the first post from the fine folks of the American Library Association, which recently launched a member interest group called Library Boing Boing. They will be posting now and again as LibraryLab. On April 23, 2012, tens of thousands of people in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, and Germany will go out into their [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net582012-02-06 18:56:47blogs / boingboing.net /: A recent mathematics study showed that you have to have at least 17 clues on a Sudoku grid in order for the puzzle to be solvable. You could make the game easier, by adding more clues. But if there are fewer than 17 clues, then the game becomes impossible to solve. In this video, mathematician [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net592012-02-06 19:00:44blogs / boingboing.net /: Timo's video "Robot readable world" is made up of stitched-together found footage from computer vision systems, "exploring the aesthetics of the robot eye." It was inspired by Matt Jones's essay The Robot-Readable World, and it reminds me Laura Mulvey's idea of the Male Gaze. Robot readable world

Provided by: boingboing.net602012-02-06 18:26:58blogs / boingboing.net /: Andreas Gursky "Union Rave" (1995) In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke wrote ""Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living." That's no longer true. These days, there are apparently 15 dead for every living person. Still, the living clearly do not [...]