Giant chunky handmade knitwear from a funny maker
Etsy seller Yokoo not only makes some pretty rad gigantic chunky knitwear, but she also gives good funny in her little "featured seller" interview: Please describe your creative process how, when, materials, etc. Well, Im not going to lie to you. A healthy dose of plagiarism never hurt anybody. When that falls flat, I find that taking my consciousness off of the process altogether really allows...
Etsy seller Yokoo not only makes some pretty ...
Etsy seller Yokoo not only makes some pretty rad gigantic chunky knitwear, but she also gives good funny in her little "featured seller" interview: Please describe your creative process how, when, materials, etc. Well, Im not going to lie to you. A healthy dose of plagiarism never hurt anybody. When that falls flat, I find that taking my consciousness off of the process altogether really allows...
Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park
Today, we travelled up the Icefields Parkway from Lake Louise. We didn't make it all the way to the Columbia Icefields but we saw lots of incredibly beautiful mountains and glaciers. I took this picture near Glacier Lake. The next photo, I believe, has a view of the Crowfoot Glacier. I've been reading How Old is that Mountain? by Chris Yorath. In answering the question in the book's title, Yora...
Obama's Cellphone Records Breached by Verizon Employees
Billing data for a cellphone account belonging to Barack Obama was "improperly breached" by Verizon employees, according to the president-elect's transition team. Obama's spokesperson says the phone was old and no longer in use. There is no indication that email records were accessed or voicemails or call contents monitored. Snip: Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the team was notified Wednesday by V...
Warcraft Identity of Obama's FCC Transition Team Co-Chair Revealed
Earlier on Boing Boing, Cory blogged that President-elect Barack Obama has appointed Net Neutrality advocates and "virtual worlds nuts" Kevin Werbach and Susan Crawford to co-chair his FCC transition team. Okay, so we might know the guy as Kevin Werbach out here in meatspace, but to his Terror Nova Guild buddies, he's better known as Supernovan Jenkins (the first name presumably a reference to ...
Warcraft Identity of Obama's FCC Transition Team Co-Chair Revealed, Analyzed
Earlier on Boing Boing, Cory blogged that President-elect Barack Obama has appointed Net Neutrality advocates and "virtual worlds nuts" Kevin Werbach and Susan Crawford to co-chair his FCC transition team. Okay, so we might know the guy as Kevin Werbach out here in meatspace, but to his Terror Nova Guild buddies, he's better known as Supernovan Jenkins (the first name presumably a reference to ...
WSJ: How Detroit drove into a ditch
Great article from the Wall Street Journal's Paul Ingrassia that summarizes how and why the US auto industry fell to pieces. My favorite part was this telling excerpt: In Detroit, amid worker alienation and the "blue-collar blues," Chevies, Fords and Plymouths rattled, rusted and rolled over -- and those were the good ones. The Ford Pinto's gas tank was prone to explode into flames when the car...
"Der Untergang" clip used as real estate downfall video
Some joker used a clip of Der Untergang to portray Hilter as a real estate sucker....
Today on Offworld
Today Offworld got an exclusive sneak peek at the awesomely retro-futurist super HYPERCUBE, a game by Montreal art collective Kokoromi and developer Polytron that uses both red/blue anaglyph glasses and Johnny Lee-style Wii-mote head-tracking to play a stylishly minimalist block game inspired by the famous "human Tetris" Japanese gameshow video. The game makes its debut tonight at Montreal's So...
BBtv: Tibetan Sovereignty Supporters Hold Historic Meeting in India to Plan Future.
In this special episode of Boing Boing tv (Direct MP4 link for download), Xeni interviews Tibetan sovereignty activists Lhadon Tethong and Tenzin "Tendor" Dorjee from Students for a Free Tibet, over a Skype video chat. They're in Dharamsala, India, the home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government In Exile, and they're attending an historic week-long meeting taking place this week to determ...
NYT writer drinks NASA water distilled from the finest astronaut pee and sweat.
Oh, what won't intrepid NYT reporter John Schwartz do for space journalism! Snip: There are many elements of [NASA's current Space Shuttle Endeavor] mission, which is devoted to further construction of the station and improvements that will allow the station to double its crew size from three to six next year. But the gizmo that is getting the most attention is the "water recovery system," whic...
Bush snubbed at G20 Summit
Rick Sanchez on CNN showed this video of world leaders at the G20 Summit refusing to shake hands with President Bush. Sanchez says "It's almost sad." (Via The Fire Wire)...
Good example of pareidolia
Forgetomori came across this neat example of pareidolia. Have you seen Jesus today? The photo above may be a good chance. Sent by Jessica Lundgren from Sweden to paranormal.about.com, you can see the clear profile of a giant bearded man with closed eyes. It does resemble common representations of a fellow named Jesus. Even though that enormous Jesus head doesn't quite fit into the rest of the i...
Zillionaire.com infomercial
Everything is Terrible found this funny infomercial from a long gone company Zillionaire.com, pushing a site called dotplanet.com ("the world's only lifestyle destination portal"). If George Bush would have ran an Internet business in the late 1990s, he would have had the same spiel and delivery style of Zillionaire.com CEO Hubert Humphrey (Not the politician): "I firmly believe that Dot Planet...
Janet Napolitano as Homeland Security chief? "We could do worse"
Reason's David Weigel thinks Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano (rumored to be Obama's pick) wouldn't be a bad choice for Secretary of Homeland Security. My favorite part of Weigel's piece is his assessment of Rudy Giuliani: I think history has already forgotten Battlin' Bernie Kerik, the laughably corrupt and mobbed-up cop whom Rudy Giuliani commended to George W. Bush as a great replacement fo...
BBtv: Offworld Premiere. What's Offworld?
Here's the debut episode of our regular video updates from OFFWORLD, Boing Boing's new gaming blog. Editor Brandon Boyer says: After an oxygen fire knocked our interstellar video link temporarily out of commission, we bring you our Boing Boing TV premiere via Azeroth, where my spiritual Death Knight equal gives you a little background on where we're is coming from and where I hope to steer the ...
Illustrating Alan Kay's Role in Portable Computing
It's usual practice for a magazine to run an excerpt of a book written by one of its editors. However, BusinessWeek went one step further and converted an excerpt from senior editor Steve Hamm's new book into a comic or manga. His book, The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer, is "a popular history of portable computing and also a narrative of a single, c...
Avalanche!
I heard the distant rumble and looked up from the trail. I quickly took this photo as fast as I could. It's a relatively small avalanche but I'd never seen one before. They are the stuff of legend, especially in the minds of those who don't live in snow country. I can't place a particular TV drama from the sixties but I know that where I first heard the shout "Avalanche!". We were out about two...
Digital Youth Project: If you care about kids and want to understand how they use technology and why, this is a must-read
The Digital Youth Project, a MacArthur-funded three year, 22 case study, $3.3 million ethnographic study of what kids are doing online, has wound up and published its results. The project was undertaken by the eminent sociologist Mimi Ito and her talented colleagues (including the incomparable danah boyd) and is the largest and most comprehensive study of young peoples' internet use ever undert...
Jonestown, 30 years Later: Inside People's Temple, the 1977 exposé.
In its special website section devoted to 30 years since Jonestown, the San Francisco Chronicle has republished a copy of a 1977 report on Jim Jones and People's Temple by Marshall Kilduff and Phil Tracy. The investigative report marked a turning point for People's Temple, an arc towards the catastrophic end that would come one year later. Before this exposé was published in New West magazine ...
The color purple
Reseller's team has just installed a new mainframe for this client, and the senior systems tech is justly proud that the job is almost done. But he has one more point to make.
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You might say that
IT site manager pilot fish at this big manufacturer gets a call from an engineer -- who's frantic because his plotter won't print some engineering drawings he needs pronto.
By 'support' we mean 'get all the complaints'
IT help desk is informed by purchasing managers that IT will be supporting a new expense-reporting process to "increase efficiency and drive costs down." Yes, it's as bad as it sounds.
Details, details
User calls the help desk to complain that her screenshots are not showing up in the documents she's creating, and nothing the support tech suggests seems to help at all -- until the tech asks one question.
A couple loose screws, all right
This user is working late at a medical clinic when her printer jams. But instead of calling technical support, she decides she can fix it herself -- though that turns out to be a challenge.
Because the customer is always...riiiiight
This hosting provider recently got a new customer for its managed e-mail service -- and apparently the customer really needs to be managed.
Now cut that out!
This specialty hardware company has a store about 60 miles from headquarters, with a PC that connects to the corporate mainframe across the Internet -- and one employee who's gullible and a bit dense.
But who's counting?
This IT pilot fish heads a group responsible for backing up a large pool of servers with a huge amount of data. Then they're asked to help another group with its backup problem -- and a problem it is.
How to save time
At an IT staff meeting, the software developers aren't happy -- they're catching flak because a slow network makes their apps run at glacial speed. But one tech knows why.
Mini hands make light work
This pilot fish is doing support work for a local school where the children are having trouble getting their computers to respond to the mice -- and nothing seems to help....
Now that wasn't so hard, was it?
This city's deputy treasurer leaves a message for support manager pilot fish: She's been trying for days to get an e-mail from someone at a major bank -- with no luck....
Sometimes it's better not to ask
It's the mid-1980s, and this fresh-out-of-university pilot fish happens to have some experience on a relatively rare type of mainframe. And he's very excited when he hears about an opening for and "on-site consultant" with knowledge of such systems.
Not quite back from vacation after all
Help desk pilot fish gets an urgent user request: "I set up a vacation rule, where a reply is automatically sent out when I receive something. Now that I'm back from vacation, I can't get it to stop."
Just one more thing to worry about
This pilot fish and his wife are planning a long overdue vacation to an all-inclusive resort -- one of those places where you don't have to worry about things like meals or tipping. Step 1: Log in.
Technically, trial and error IS a mechanism
New regulations require more physical and electronic security at this health insurance company, so the company hires a chief security officer to oversee the efforts -- and he's sure he knows what he's doing....
First thing first
Manufacturing engineers at this plant are incredibly talented. Trouble is, they believe their talent crosses all lines, including fixing any problem having to do with computers and networks.
That would explain it
IT pilot fish at a small hospital gets a tech-support call from the lab department. It seems they've had trouble faxing reports for a few days and finally decided to call fish for help.
Can we set up a meeting about that?
This insurance company is updating its claims-processing software, and it's a big deal for the entire 30-person IT department -- but the primary responsibility falls on the lead programmer.
Just like that other thing, only not
Account manager pilot fish at an IT service provider is pitching the company's virtual hosting service -- and he brings along a fresh technical consultant to handle the technical questions.
