week of 02/03/2008

Compubeaver (It's a computer! And a beaver!)



What has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 160G hard drive, 1G RAM, buck teeth, fur, and a big fat tail?

Duh, Compubeaver! This taxidermy casemod was created by Kasey McMahon of yourpsychogirlfriend. Compubeaver boasts impressive technical specs, and can chew through logs or logfiles with equal ease.

In this episode of Boing Boing tv, we observe the critter in his native environment: a contemporary office space, with eager information workers -- and one big problem.

Want to build your own? Read this Instructables HOWTO!

Special thanks to Sean Bonner, to everyone at The Groop, and to Adam Koford for the Compubeaver illustrations and "LED log" font. If you dig this video, feel free to Digg it.

Previously on BBtv: Text-o-possum / Your Psycho Girlfriend

Text-o-possum / Your Psycho Girlfriend



Xeni dons a tutu made of baby heads on today's Boing Boing tv: we visit the workshop of Your Psycho Girlfriend, creators of demented couture and cyborg marsupials from the future.

One of those mammal-machine hybrids is the text-o-possum (we meet him around 02:27). The left rear leg of this taxidermied texter hides a bluetooth keyboard projector that shoots ASCII into the ether with red lasers. No, really.

In part two of today's episode (around 3:09), a Boing Boing operative tests out the text-o-possum's capabilities for enterprise computing in an urban business environment. A elderly lady walks up and pets text-o-possum, then all hell breaks loose. And by hell, we mean comedy.

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Continue reading Text-o-possum / Your Psycho Girlfriend.

Ape Lad: Pappy and the Cryptids.



Bigfoot, Chupacabra, a chainsmoking bear -- they all show up in this interview with Adam "Ape Lad" Koford's grandpappy Aloysius Koford.

"Pappy" illustrates cryptozoological wonders from his hobo past with a sometimes-malfunctioning robotic hand. Don't miss the second segment in today's episode, in which "Pappy" and Adam head out into the wilderness to spot cryptid tracks in the dirt. What do Sasquatch footprints taste like? You don't wanna know.

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Related Boing Boing tv episodes:

  • Aloysius Koford, Mountain Man.
  • Ape Lad: The True Hollywood Story of Aloysius Koford
  • Ape Lad: Hobo Life
  • Laugh Out Loud Cats: The True History
  • Mole Men imagined by Ape Lad / Mole Crunk
  • John Hodgman's Mole Men / Cavalcade of Hobos
  • Laugh Out Loud Cats: new book by Adam Koford
  • Continue reading Ape Lad: Pappy and the Cryptids..

    Monochrom: MyFaceSpace, the musical



    An original musical production about social networking and your personal privacy, by Austrian art-pranksters monochrom, with Jonathan Mann aka GameJew. Performed at the Austrian Big Brother Awards, where online rights advocates honor "government agencies, private companies and individuals who have excelled in the violation of our privacy."

    Full version on monochrom's site here.

    Point Break and heartbreak



    Each weekend at a bar in downtown LA, actors and audience gather to re-create the 1991 action-schlock cult classic Point Break (which starred Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze). Today on Boing Boing tv, we follow the quest of one lone German/French actor to find fame and greatness through the "Point Break Live" reality-play competition.

    Special thanks to Klaus Pierre for enduring such tragedy and humiliation for the sake of Boing Boing tv. You'll always be Johnny Utah to us, old pal.

    week of 02/03/2008