Recently at Boing Boing Gadgets

Recently at Boing Boing Gadgets, we paid special homage to bridges. Come visit us for those posts and more:

* An interview with Donald MacDonald, chief architect of the new Bay Bridge
* The new suicide prevention barrier on the Golden Gate
* How to build a model bridge
* A 1000-year old bridge surrounded by houses
* A bridge-building centipede truck
* A tiny floating water bridge
* Why Kurzweil will probably die
* Why in-car bluetooth is still considered a luxury
* The ultra-Japanese NEC netbook
* A map of phone calls made on Obama's Inauguration Day

photo by Wasabi Bob

[#1 posted by jjasper, May 27, 2009 10:48 AM]

GWB represent!

[#2 posted by tuktuk, May 27, 2009 11:05 AM]

thank yallz for doing this! i live in one of the best places in the world for my bridge-loving ilk: a loft overlooking the willamette river bridges in portland. the coolest thing about our bridges is that almost all of them lift, spin, or raise up drawbridge style. the second coolest thing about our bridges is that they are so old, and still function. next year the hawthorne bridge turns 100, and the city and county are letting me plan a festival on the bridges, wherein we take them over and produce large scale kinetic and A/V artwork, transforming the bridges into a canvas for music, art, and performance. just had a meeting with the engineering authorities and got the green light!

any pdx peeps out there? holla. we need a website like last week.

[#3 posted by Anonymous, May 27, 2009 6:38 PM]

If you're going to pay homage to bridges, you're going to need a theme:
MC Frontalot, "Floating Bridge".
(Download links located there or also here.)