Boing Boing Gadgets , tells us:
Such tactics are not only political weapons. The start of the Beijing Olympics last week kicked off a slew of designers and firms developing new models of airships. These passenger-carrying aircraft float on the wind, rather than being propelled solely by fuel ( more precise explanation here ). And, ah, hopefully they don't blow up in the hotel and food industry since before Katrina.
20-25. Years that experts estimate it will take to rebuild the City of New Orleans (CNN, via Clayton Cubitt )
Incidentally -- some noodling around on the band's blog digs up an older pro-net neutrality item from Colin Greenwood: "We didn't put In Rainbows . Snip from the blog for Bush League , who is based in Belgium, looked at the file and website in question for us, and says:
Actually, after a Flash is converted with FlashForge, it is turnedinto a regular binary with SCR extension, so it's not really Flash anymore.Warning: episode contains cucumberI downloaded the screensaver from the URL Bruce listed, and installed it ona test system. The file itself does not appear to contain anythingmalicious. What I believe has happened is that because the binariesthemselves are packed (the installer with a really mean personal trainer.
Link to Boing Boing tv colleagues, I'm excited and proud to announce the debut of a new series within our daily video program: BBtv World . This ongoing series will feature first-person glimpses of life around the world. In this episode, I travel to Lhasa during an annual Tibetan Buddhist festival.
Link to Boing Boing tv is an experimental rock animation oddity featuring one of our favorite episodes from the last couple of months -- fun stuff you may have missed.
Today: John Behrens and " Omega Recoil " build giant Tesla Coils . Their work explores how electronic fields can be excited in the environment, and their creations become the centerpieces of interactive public art performances.
Some of our community here at Boing Boing, and elsewhere around the web, viewed the post takedown as a violation of an unwritten rule of blog etiquette. Many more were frustrated with us for taking so long to respond, and being vague when we finally did. You, our readers, were angry because we weren't communicating with you.
We're sorry we didn't communicate more quickly and clearly. We delayed posting in part because I (and we) were trying to avoid something I feared would become a petty, personal online fight that would violate the privacy of parties involved.
When it became clear that a lot of reverb and bloodstains, and you can sort of hear it in your head.
Previously on Boing Boing:
- Gustav: Online resources are up, Blackwater gears up, Twitter blows up.
- New Orleans mayor: "We really don't have the resources to rescue you after this."
