Tag: BOING BOING

What could be more compelling than documenting the lives of characters from the video game The Sims? Okay, it doesn't sound all that compelling, and there are many examples on the web of it being done poorly. But once in awhile someone comes along and does something that seems like a bad idea in such spectacular fashion that it truly becomes noteworthy. Alice and Kev is a blog by Robin Burkinshaw ...

Boing Boing posted a link to an amusing little video called Supermarket 2.0. The acting's nothing too special, and I can't help but wonder how this supermarket stays open with just 3 customers. But the concept is pure geek comedy gold. The store is completely web 2.0 compliant. glumbert.com - Supermarket 2.0 There are tags on all the products (H20, transparent, etc for water), RSS feeds for ...

With every launch of a new Microsoft operating system comes two things: New error messages A new ubiquitous advertising campaign. Apparently fed up with the new "Wow" advertising campaign that has hit the streets of Prague, Czech painter Jeremiah Palecek created a set of print-your-own Vista error message stickers. He's designed an easy to print sheet so that users can buy a pack of ...

We've been bemoaning the DMCA a lot around Download Squad lately, but here's a tale with a happy -- if schadenfreude -- ending. Michael Crook has become famous around the blog-o-sphere; As a thorn in the side of some high profile blogs. It all started when Crook landed in the hotseat on the popular Fox News Channel's Hannity and Colmes for his hoax web campaign to reduce the pay of US Troops. ...