I know that when I need to post updates to my latest regressions of Shakespeare back into his native Klingon, I turn to the exolinguist's best friend: the Mac coding tool BBEdit*. I fire it up, and select File New HTML Document, then choose Klingon from the Language pop-up menu. — Read the rest
From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, an anonymous reader says,
"For halloween last year we were in black and white (grayscale). It was AMAZING and everyone loved it." — Read the rest
From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, BB reader "PrettyBoyTim" says,
"My son and I went as robots today; it was a lot of fun, although it made it very difficult to do anything. I also did the puppy up with some bat wings. — Read the rest
From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, an anonymous BB reader says,
"We went as Tetrominos (Tetris pieces). The best part was trying on boxes in Staples and being given very strange looks by the other customers. The worst part was the complete lack of peripheral awareness and frequent bashing-into-things." — Read the rest
From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, BB reader Voluntas says,
"This year my wife and I were N64 Mariocart characters (Toad and Bowser). Clearly, we're playing battle mode."
From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, BB reader NightBrigade says,
My girlfriend and I went out as a Mac and a PC!
We actually swapped our preferences so that I could include the "Fatal Error" joke on the PC screen.
From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, Anonymous says, "We went as a TARDIS and a Dalek!"
A smorgasbord of signs that resembled T-shirt slogans popped up at the Stewart/Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity/Fear. Buzzfeed assembled a top 100 list from Flickr, many of which involve mild visual jokes, such as "Spelling C(o)unts," and "Obama Is Not the Devil, I Am" (carried by a man in a devil suit). — Read the rest
From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, gammablog points us to this gorgeous skeleton costume and explains,
— Read the restThe arms are operated by a lever at the shoulder joint. The elbows and hands are made springy with piano wire. The lower body is a skeleton grabbed from Google images, applied to 1/4 inch plywood and jointed with bicycle inner tube rubber.
From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, deep@worker-bee.com says,
— Read the restHere's a quick set of pictures of my latest Disco Ball costume, Disco Ball 5.0 – every few years I make a better version & this is the best yet :-)
I made the whole thing and have an iPod powered sound system in it.
From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, Anonymous says,
"This year I decided to build a Lego Figurine Vampire costume. It took me about a week and 50EUR. Quite happy with the result."
From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, Boing Boing reader planettom says,
"I went as a Chilean Miner, complete with Rescue Pod."
"Made from 2 32-gallon plastic trashcans. Except, though I could contort to fit in it, I realized I couldn't with the hardhat/headlamp, so I had to add 12" of a 3rd 32-gallon plastic trashcan. — Read the rest
From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, a get-up rich with hipster irony.
Boing Boing reader and dad William Dikel writes in to tell us,
"Gabe Dikel is a creative artist/painter/filmmaker living in Brooklyn. In a sudden flash of creativity, he saw himself as a Che T-shirt, and with the help of his brother, a piece of cardboard and some orange and black paint: Voila! — Read the rest
1985: Pesco wore copious amounts of black eyeliner, Ministry's Al Jourgensen cultivated a faux English accent, and everyday was Halloween. — Read the rest
The Pennsylvania Attorney General has brought suit against the Unicredit Debt Resolution Center in Erie, PA. According to the suit, Unicredit dressed its employees in fake sheriff's deputies uniforms to lure debtors out of their homes with unenforceable orders, and took them to a fake courtroom where another employee pretending to be a judge told them they could go to jail if they didn't pay up. — Read the rest
This swell mechanical mustache would be the pride of any lip, but it belongs to John Kit, who sported it at the first anniversary celebration of HeatSync Labs in Chandler, AZ.
(via Make)
Jonathan Guberman from the Site 3 coLaboratory in Toronto made the "Automatypewriter," an Arduino-controlled typewriter that acts as both input and output device. He's rigged it to play Zork!
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Each key is attached by fishing line to a solenoid, an electromechanical device that pulls down when electric current is passed through it.
Christine sez, "One of my friends has made himself a Creeper costume for this Hallowe'en."
Lucas Gonze sez, "I have posted a mix mp3 of 21st c./ olden days sounds, including scratchy ancient recordings like the Edison Talking Doll and my own new recordings of gloomy and sweet 19th century tunes, all in the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero license."
Gentlemen, start your slashfic engines. Yes, the theme of this DIY costume in Boing Boing's ongoing series is— Sexy Wikileaks.
Above, Philip Neustrom and friend Ron Baker last night at DNA Lounge in San Francisco. Philip, at left, is dressed as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. — Read the rest
