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Provided by: boingboing.net1062012-02-05 01:24:50blogs / boingboing.net /: I don't know an awful lot about fingernail painting, but this seems like a pretty straightforward painting task, and the effect is pretty awesome. Converse Nails (via Super Punch)

Provided by: boingboing.net1072012-02-05 00:19:49blogs / boingboing.net /: Joly sez, "Rebecca Mackinnon discusses her new book 'Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom' (Basic Books) with Mark Whitaker, managing editor for CNN Worldwide, at The New America Foundation NYC on Feb 1 2012." I've got a copy of this book at the top of my read-for-review pile. I can't wait. [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1082012-02-04 20:05:01blogs / boingboing.net /: Dan Sayers ("I am not a type designer") decided to explore "generative" type-design by seeing what happened when he "averaged out" a large number of fonts. Once he got his teeth into the problem, he realized that "averaging out" is a complicated idea when it comes to shapes, and came up with a pretty elegant [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1092012-02-04 20:17:50blogs / boingboing.net /: Gmoke sez, "This statistical model uses 'zipcode-level energy consumption data to estimate the average annual energy use for every tax lot—at practically building level—through all five boroughs of the city.' Included are estimateans for space heating, space cooling, water heating, and base electric applications such as lighting. 'This map will enable NYC building owners to [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1102012-02-04 19:31:56blogs / boingboing.net /: This afternoon some friends and I will be playing this new game we really like in Yerba Buena Gardens, and you're welcome to join us. Johann Sebastian Joust is basically like high-tech tag. Each person has a Playstation Move controller, and the object of the game is to jostle other people's controllers so that you're [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1112012-02-04 19:03:27blogs / boingboing.net /: The NYT's Scott James recounts the insane red-tape endured by Juliet Pries, an entrepreneur who decided to open an ice-cream parlour in San Francisco's Cole Valley. She had to pay rent on an empty storefront for over two years while the necessary permits were processed, and tens of thousands of dollars in fees (including the [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1122012-02-04 17:14:29blogs / boingboing.net /: I blogged "Extermiknit!", a knittable Dalek, back in 2007, but it turns out that an even cooler knittable Dalek of the same name was created on Feather and Fan in 2010, with an opening hatch containing a Kaled mutant, and here it is. After completing the top of the Dalek as specified, I created an [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1132012-02-04 16:08:44blogs / boingboing.net /: PLOT: The story of King Edward VIIIBrain candy for Happy MutantsIf you need me to explain why you should spend 1:26 watching a man wielding an iron guitar in a Faraday suit playing Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" on MIDI-compatible Tesla coils, you are in the wrong place, pal. ArcAttack is performing a Tesla Coil version of Iron Man by Black Sabbath. The Guitar Player is [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1142012-02-04 15:00:27blogs / boingboing.net /: Derryl Murphy sez, "Drew Smith's lovely new song 'Smoke and Mirrors' needed a video, so he decided to outsource it. The result is wonderful." So I outsourced my video to Bangalore, India. Why? Well, I figured the last thing the world needed was another low-budget singer songwriter video. Fortunately, the first Virtual Assistant I found [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1152012-02-04 14:00:15blogs / boingboing.net /: In Slate, Dahlia Lithwick examines the impact that Stephen Colbert's SuperPAC is having on public perception of the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United, which establishes that "corporate personhood" means that corporations can make unlimited contributions to political campaigns. Dahlia implies that the Court, which has always maintained an aloofness from public life (no cameras, [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com1162012-02-02 19:05:24blogs / gapingvoid.com /

Bullet hell shooter Dodonpachi: Blissful Death arrives on the App Store from 9th February, developer Cave has announced.

A portable version of 2002 arcader DoDonPachi: Dai Ou Jou, it'll cost you "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"

Provided by: boingboing.net1172012-02-04 09:47:38blogs / boingboing.net /: Apparently inspired by the Polish parliamentarians who showed up for work in Guy Fawkes masks for the signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (a US-driven secret copyright treaty), members of Bulgaria's parliament repeated the trick. The MPs say they support copyright laws, but oppose ACTA over its possible turning into an instrument to limit freedom [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1182012-02-04 05:43:32blogs / boingboing.net /: Over the past year I have meticulously scoured the entire internet in search of the finest images available anywhere on earth. The results of my laborious and time consuming research can be found in the following list: Brain candy for Happy MutantsMichael Geist sez, "I've posted a video version of a recent talk on SOPA activism and what it means for the next generation of global copyright agreements such as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and the Trans Pacific Partnership. The talk is about an hour as it also assesses the global strategies employed by the U.S. [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com1191970-01-01 00:00:00blogs / gapingvoid.com /: Over the past year I have meticulously scoured the entire internet in search of the finest images available anywhere on earth. The results of my laborious and time consuming research can be found in the following list: An error was ecnountered attempting to get the RSS data: The server did not return XML. The content type returned was text/xsl "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"

Provided by: boingboing.net1202012-02-03 16:08:44blogs / boingboing.net /: If you need me to explain why you should spend 1:26 watching a man wielding an iron guitar in a Faraday suit playing Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" on MIDI-compatible Tesla coils, you are in the wrong place, pal. ArcAttack is performing a Tesla Coil version of Iron Man by Black Sabbath. The Guitar Player is [...]