A new, digitally remastered "Final Cut" of Blade Runner is showing theatrically in a few cities, with a 5-disc DVD coming out in December. Is it worthy, or in need of retirement?
Update: Oh, and nota breve, y'all: if you're enjoying BBtv and care to add a review on iTunes, where we're a (very) newly-listed show, we'd be most grateful! iTunes Link.
Xeni talks to philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen about The Allen Telescope Array, a $50 million astronomy project 6 years in the making that expands the search for extra-terrestrial life. Allen joins researchers from the SETI Institute and UC Berkeley today in Hat Creek, California, to announce that the first phase of the ATA is complete -- 42 of an eventual 350 radio dishes are now active and collecting scientific data from the universe.
Also in today's episode (starting at 4:44), mad professor Mark Frauenfelder dons his lab coat to demonstrate a peculiar sound instrument he made - a "boing box." Mark shows you how to make one yourself! He found the plans on bizarrelabs.com. Learn more in the next issue of MAKE magazine.
And! BBtv has an insanely cool, all-new intro animation, designed by Syd Garon (did the animated feature "DJ Qbert's Wave Twisters," "Somebody Goofed," and "Jack Chick's Titanic") with art from Adam Koford (did hobos! monkeys! laugh out loud cats!). Can you spot all the iconic BB elements in the subliminally speedy montage? Includes goatse and AACS keys, vulcans and tikis, sad popsicles and 8-bit unicorns, EFF and NSA, and much much more. Sound in that intro clip is by Carlos Bêla of Golden Shower, and logo critters by eBoy.
New trends in Fall TV shows, and an interview with TV star and blogger Wil Wheaton about his (excellent) new book, "The Happiest Days of Our Lives." And for a Unicorn Chaser, video of a new aircraft now in use in Iraq. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a THUNDER CHICKEN! (from an amazing repository of flying stuff flightlevel350.com)
In today's edition of Boing Boing tv:
0:11 -- Knitters find a community online in Ravelry.com. One of the site's 21,000 beta users, Ruth Waytz, tells us why she digs Ravelry for swapping patterns, tools, yarns, and "ugh" files (perfectly good projects that went crappy) with fellow knitting fanatics.
Online knitting isn't always precious. Sure, baby booties, tea cozies, and hippie shawls abound. But how about a hand-knitted version of The Fantastic Four character The Thing by knittycat? Craft becomes anti-craft in a lovably loathsome knitted teratoma tumor (by Zabet Stewart, Jane Roth, Heather Hard, and Sarabeth Brownrobie). BTW, image search for "teratoma tumor" at your own peril: it's goatse-grade gross.
2:29 -- More on the internet crackdown by the government of Burma (or Myanmar). As military violence against pro-democracy forces continues, information channels are increasingly blocked. The 'net blackout there gave free speech activist Shava Nerad (also Development Director for the Tor project) deja vu.
Hear the rest of Shava's story, then look for rolling updates on the situation inside Burma at this website, along with other Burma blogs and independent media sites.
Correction: The teratoma tumor is misidentified in the video as being the work of Shelley Batts. Shelley kindly blogged about it, and pointed to related medical photos on her blog post -- but Zabet Stewart explains:
It's not based on an actual medical photo at all. Heather (a doctor who was pregnant at the time) and Sarabeth came up with the idea, I designed and knitted it, and Jane crocheted the attachable parts. It was gifted back to Heather after the birth of her son, Sam.We regret the error.
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