This Japanese ski resort toilet has everything: a vertiginous, trompe l'oeil mural, a pink toilet that washes your bum, AND an incomprehensible slogan for a brand of tinned coffee! Georgia Max Coffee chose to redesign the toilets of a number of key ski resorts in Japan. The cubicles were fully wrapp...

Astute social media researcher danah boyd -- now running her own lab at Microsoft Research -- has published the notes from an internal company talk she gave called "Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?" It's a good condensation of the material in her dissertation, full of punchy insights into h...

Cyborg Bugs: a series of concept illos for a race of super-violent, high-tech insects from Dean Christ of Ubyka Studio in Sydney. CYBORG BUGS : Enter the new evolution of warfare (via Geisha Asobi )...

Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Joel's celebrating the CGSociety's "Steampunk: Myths & Legends" contest winners' page, highlighting Gabricio Moraes's rendered image "Steamnocchio," which is a damned fine piece of work. But it's not a patch on Guillaume Dubois's "Alice's Adventures in Steamland," if...

In addition to Pi day (3/14), we're also in the middle of Square Root Day! Square root day is held on the date that both the day and the month are both a square root of the last two digits of the year; so this year it’s March 3rd, 2009 (3/3/09). Celebrating is easy. When eating your all important ...

The Retr0brite Project is an open-source effort to develop the world's finest vintage computer polish, to whiten up the yellowing chassis of your old Amigas and such. Dave from Manchester, UK, aka 'Merlin', the chemist behind the project, explains. “I came across the use of peroxide in July 2008 w...

Bruce Sterling's Webstock talk on Web 2.0 has a whole crapload of incredibly insightful stuff in it, and ends on a note that makes me want to go to the barricades: That's the key Web 2.0 insight: "the web as a platform." Okay, "webs" are not "platforms." I know you're used to that idea after five ye...

Eden Robins, one of my talented Clarion West students, writes, Brain Harvest will feature the best snappy, bad-ass speculative fiction pieces we can find in 750 words or less. These will be available on our website, where readers can also subscribe to have the stories delivered to their mobile devic...

In this RPGNet forum, a youngster asks, "I was reading about arcades and how you'd have to queue to play popular games as well as follow rules like no throwing in fighting game or the others wouldn't let you play. This seems rather strange. The money cost must have gotten expensive pretty quickly as...

Inspired by one of the funniest goddamned XKCD strips of all time, Bre Pettis and Adam Cecchetti have built a "Sudo make me a sandwich robot" that makes a sandwich when you tell it to. Sudo Make Me A Sandwich Robot (via Make ) Previously: sudo make me a cheezburger (LOLified iphone snap) - Boing Boi...