This morning I got up early, packed my bag and headed to the San Francisco International airport (SFO) to attend the opening of Virgin America's new Terminal 2 (T2). I… Read the rest of the article: Flying wing to wing with a spaceship: Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo + SpaceShipTwo at Virgin America's new SFO Terminal

[Video link] This video from the BBC TV series "Life" (one of my favorites) shows these creepy, creepy fish crawling around in the mud and just looking weird. Rob thinks… Read the rest of the article: Mudskippers. Check out this weird fish.

Erlang is a programming language developed in 1986 to improve telephone switching networks. For the non-programmer it's horribly dry stuff, but for those in the know it has some really… Read the rest of the article: Erlang the Movie: just the calls

Tara Helfer, a friend of mine from a comic book drawing class I took about a year ago, is in the process of inking and coloring a really cool illustration… Read the rest of the article: Work in progress: Pig Lady drawing

Truly, words can not justify what you are about to witness, but I'll give it a whack anyway: A brilliant mashup trailer of 80s teen movie moments all smoothly tied… Read the rest of the article: The Legend of Zelda: the 80s teen movie

Daladubz – Pink elephants VIP by Daladubz Here's a dirty little dubstep track to brighten your day. Daladubz took a few samples from the classic Disney film Dumbo and gave… Read the rest of the article: Daladubz puts Dumbo to dubstep

Banjo. Rocking chairs. Puns, oh the puns. Winnipeg. Sound effects. Censored cursing. Transitions up the wazoo. I think there may have been a cat in there somewhere too. No trade-ins… Read the rest of the article: Kitty Midnight Madness!

You are planning to make something cool with the last 11 years of Boing Boing posts, right? Here's a quick update on the release from earlier in the week: •… Read the rest of the article: Update on the Boing Boing post release for your weekend project

On Tuesday I released the last eleven years of Boing Boing posts all in one file to celebrate Boing Boing's recent anniversary. Large datasets are fun, and we wanted to… Read the rest of the article: Publicly accessible and mutable Boing Boing API compiled overnight

(image: number of Boing Boing posts per month by author, click to see larger) Having very recently celebrated Boing Boing's eleventh bloggaversary, we're releasing an update of our previous archival… Read the rest of the article: Eleven years' worth of Boing Boing posts in one file!

The Monkeys You Ordered takes New Yorker cartoons and changes the captions to match the scene. The joke is that there is no joke. And it's actually pretty funny. Thanks… Read the rest of the article: New Yorker cartoons redone with literal captions

Photograph by David Noah – full size Once again you, faithful reader, have demolished our expectations. After our call for photos of the snow storm yesterday, we received about a… Read the rest of the article: Snow day photo gallery: Your photos!

Sometime back in November while surveying our digital acreage, we uncovered a few gems out in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. We'd post one, and then more would show up… Read the rest of the article: 10,000th item posted to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool!

Linda Dong, a friend of mine in the design department at CMU, has been working on this series of photos and videos demonstrating basic scientific concepts. What sets them apart… Read the rest of the article: Simple Science: Minimalist examples of scientific concepts

Part of the magic of Minecraft for me is how relaxing it can be with the right music. The choice of songs in Notch's demo videos matches perfectly with the… Read the rest of the article: Music of Minecraft: Deadmau5 test tracks on Soundcloud

Recently untethered from the Xbox, independent developers have been making some really awesome pieces of software with the Kinect. This project is a perfect example of what's possible when anyone… Read the rest of the article: Making a virtual FAO Schwartz floor piano with the Xbox Kinect

Attention mothers of mine who teach sixth grade: This is a great song to sing with your students for Friday Song. 14 year old Spencer Tweedy, son of Jeff wrote… Read the rest of the article: Lovely song about math by Wilco frontman's son: Put A Line On It

Look at this 4 year old's adorable Jawa costume her grandmother made her. This is way better than my juvenile attempt of wrapping myself in an old blanket and stumbling… Read the rest of the article: Adorable Jawa Costume

We don't know much about the origin of this little number, but we thank Minnesota-based radio host and funnyman John Moe for sharing it with us. [Video Link]