To create the experimental short film "Between You and Me," Patryk Rebisz stitched together over 2,000 individual still photos shot with a Canon 20D camera. Watch the result: Link(thanks David… Read the rest of the article: Patryk Rebisz short film comprises 2,000 Canon 20D stills

Designers are transforming a 2600-square-footmeter former car showroom into Japan's first robot museum, with a planned opening in October, 2006. Exhibits will cover a wide range of models, from toys… Read the rest of the article: Japan's first robot museum to open in Oct. '06

Following an earlier BoingBoing post with clips from the 1966 German TV space-opera "Raumpatrouille" (Space Patrol) — well, here are more clips. The show pre-dates Star Trek, and this quick… Read the rest of the article: Video, MP3: More Raumpatrouille kitschtastic '66 German sfTV

Following up on earlier news that photo-blog service Textamerica planned to delete old, free accounts for longtime users who didn't want to be forcibly upgraded to a $99/year paid membership,… Read the rest of the article: Update: Textamerica won't kill old free accounts after all

The latest issue of NYC-based art & lifestyle mag ANIMAL includes a series of celebrity-animal hybrids called CELEBIMALS. Here's a preview, and you can download the whole mag as a… Read the rest of the article: Illos of celebrity-animal cryptozoological hybrid monstrosities

With what some have described as a "predatory pricing model" and rates lower than credit card processing fees, Google's new online payment service Checkout officially launched today. The competitive rates… Read the rest of the article: Google launches "predatory" Paypal rival Checkout, much is prohibited

Snip from New Scientist article: New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information… Read the rest of the article: Pentagon funding research on data harvesting from Myspace, social networks

Richard Clayton, a computer security researcher at the University of Cambridge, has been poking around at the technical structure of China's "great firewall." On the lightbluetouchpaper collective blog, he says… Read the rest of the article: Net censorship: HOWTO bypass China's Great Firewall

Video clip from the sixties German TV show Raumpatrouille. Episode 3: The Keepers of the Law. "The computer can malfunction… the tracks are a bit mixed up. I call it… Read the rest of the article: Video: Crazy '60s German TV robots und dance moves

Chinese artist Wang Guangyi creates satirical works of art touting iconic Western brands like Coke and Disney — but in the visual tradition of Chinese propaganda posters. Link

In a 5-to-3 ruling, the US Supreme Court ruled today that the military tribunals at Guantanamo violated both US military law and the Geneva Conventions. Link to NYT story, and… Read the rest of the article: Supreme court blocks Guantanamo tribunals

Chris Paine's new documentary feature "Who Killed the Electric Car" opens at theaters throughout the US this week, and I'm looking forward to seeing it. Snip from the NYT review… Read the rest of the article: Movie opening: Who Killed the Electric Car?

Bonnie Burton of Lucasfilm says, Ever wonder what it would be like to see Yoda fly by your head or hear Chewbacca buzz instead of roar? Now you can find… Read the rest of the article: Insect species named after Star Wars characters

This video commercial for a zany prophylactic-applicator gadget called Condom-on sure smells like spoof spirit: Using technology developed by NASA for the Mars Lander, the Condom-On has been aerodynamically optimized… Read the rest of the article: Video: "Condom-on" gag commercial for potentially real gadget

Snip from a NYT article by John Markoff and Martin Fackler about a new location-based search service for cellphone users in Japan: If you stand on a street corner in… Read the rest of the article: Real-world search on GPS cellphones: "digital divining rods"

Well this is one of the weirder things I've seen recently. A gangsta-cosplay music video by a reggaeton group from Panama called BUKKAKE. Dudes dress up in spandex superhero costumes… Read the rest of the article: Video: Panamanian reggaeton underwear perverts rock out

(Disclaimer: BoingBoing does not recommend that anyone but professional cryo/pryotechnics experts try this. "Dry ice bombs" can cause property damage, serious injury, or death. See reader comments after the jump… Read the rest of the article: Video: HOWTO make a dry ice bomb (this is not safe).

5000 says, It must be a midwestern thing, but after getting an eVite to an event promising "cornhole for the kids" a friend and I did some research and discovered… Read the rest of the article: Hey boys and girls, let's play "cornhole"!

A German entrepreneur has launched SMINTAIR, the world's first "all-smoking" airline, with nonstops from Dusseldorf to Tokyo. The airline website promises "bring back the exclusivity in flying encountered in the… Read the rest of the article: All-smoking airline to take off soon (in puff of smoke)

Writer Nasrin Alavi on controversial appointments to the new UN Human Rights Council of two men known for extreme human rights abuses against reporters and bloggers: The launch of the… Read the rest of the article: Iran's UN Human Rights appointees: no friends of net, press