The Science of Scams is a new project from Channel 4 and mentalist/magician Derren Brown that aims to debunk the paranormal industry's lucrative claims about ghosts, fortune-telling, telekinesis and other assorted woo woo. Brown and C4 produced seven videos purporting to show the kind of "paranorm... More.
Ian bought a Kindle and some Kindle ebooks from Amazon. He also bought some real-world stuff from them, some of which he returned. Amazon decided that he'd returned too many things, so they suspended his Amazon account, which meant that he could no longer buy any Kindle books, and any Kindle subscri... More.
(NSFW: sites linked in this post contain sexually explicit material). Required weekend reading: "They Shoot Porn Stars, Don't They?," Susannah Breslin's bold and ambitious photo-essay on the recession's impact in "porn valley," the epicenter of the adult entertainment biz. "Originally, I wrote it ... More.
Dutch animator Sjors Vervoort created this fantastic stop-motion animation as a graduation project. Steven Aert did the sound design. (Thanks, Vann Hall!)... More.
Jason Brammer's hand-painted eyeball matrioshka, "The Watchers," is a fine addition to the genre of crazy-awesome stuff you can do with blank nested dolls.
"The Watchers"
(via Craft)
Previously:Matrioshke phones -- Boing Boing Gadgets - Boing Boing
Matryomin: a matrioshke with a theremin insid... More.
let me guess - no elevators in those buildings.
My kids have started calling me SpiderMan.
Not because of my super powers but because I have trouble getting out of the bath these days.