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Here are some photos of Maker Faire 2009, which took place Saturday, May 30th and Sunday, May 31st at the San Mateo County Event Center.

Photo Gallery: Maker Faire 2009

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Photos: Maker Faire 2009

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“Sorry I’m Late” is a wonderful stop-motion animated film made by Tomas Mankovsky that was shot from above using still camera on the ceiling. Here’s how it was made.

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Sorry I’m Late, Stop-Motion Animation Shot From Above With A Still Camera On The Ceiling

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another beautifully shot-from-above stop motion animation :: click below to watch ::

great addition to an amazing series of videos

Gooberry, a talking plush toy designed by Attaboy that was years in the making, is finally being released and is now available for pre-order through Silver Sprocket.

Each Gooberry has been freshly picked from a secret Gooberry Patch before ripening just for you!

Like a newborn’s skull, their soft skin has yet to be fully formed, so a Gooberry is very impressionable and extra-sensitive to your each and every touch!

Please, please, DO NOT attempt to eat a Goobery, as they taste like strawberry whipped crème.

DO NOT pull a Gooberry’s string, as each pull, although wholly satisfying to you, brings the Gooberry that much closer to a most painful death.

Measuring 12.5 inches tall, the Gooberry squeaks in pain when you squeeze her pinchers, and cowers in fear from your every snuggle.

Truely an interactive experience, the Gooberry is the first designer plush to feature a pull-string sound box and squeakers!

photo by Brian McCarty

The first batch of 45 Gooberry’s will be available for harvest at Attaboy’s “A Touch of Evil” art show on June 13th at POV Evolving Gallery in Los Angeles.

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Gooberry by Attaboy

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The Register is reporting that Wikipedia has banned The Church of Scientology.

In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates.

Closing out the longest-running court case in Wikiland history, the site’s Arbitration Committee voted 10 to 0 (with one abstention) in favor of the move, which takes effect immediately.

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Wikipedia Bans The Church of Scientology

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Hulu has just released their new Hulu Desktop application, which is part of their recently launched Hulu Labs.

Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that’s optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu’s entire library with just six buttons. For users without remotes, the application is keyboard and mouse-enabled. Hulu Desktop is a downloadable application and will work on PCs and Macs. It will initially launch as a beta product during which we plan to gather and incorporate user feedback to improve the service.

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Hulu Launches Desktop Application

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So the new Star Trek film made a good at drawing kids into their parent’s (or grandparent’s) sci-fi franchise, but it’s not like Roddenberry wasn’t trying to get with the kids back in 1969. What else would explain this exquisitely ham-fisted jam by the “Space Hippies” of episode #76, “The Way to Eden”, wherein Spock grudgingly breaks out his Vulcan harp for a bit of musical diplomacy.

Of course, the real-life Nimoy was anything but grudging in his pursuit of musical stardom, and these strivings — along with the occasional nod to the breathless rhapsodies of Shatner and other ST notables — are admirably documented at Maiden Wine, with troves of all-but-lost treasures including never-before-seen footage from Nimoy’s notorious “Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” music video.

Naturally, all of this has inspired fans to join the musical chorus in a variety of ways, whether it’s hand-carving “an exact working replica” the aforementioned Vulcan harp. (It’s tuned to a diatonic, dontcha know!), dressing up as the “Mugato” and moshing with Sacramento’s Trekker punks, The No Kill I or recording novelty rockers like “Jim Beam Me Up” with Sacramento’s OTHER rival Trekkie band Warp 11.

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To Boldly Rock Where None Have Rocked Before

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I Hope to God That’s Batman on I Can Has Cheezburger?

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I Hope to God That’s Batman

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“Luigi Finally Snaps” tells the story of what happens when Luigi of Mario Bros. finally has a enough of his older, more popular brother Mario.

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Luigi Has Finally Had Enough of His Older, More Popular Brother Mario

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EFF chairman Brad Templeton makes his contribution to the ubiquitous Hitler “Downfall” video meme with his “Hitler Orders a DMCA Takedown” video.

There are 100 parodies of this downfall clip. The studio, Constantin Filims, has ordered takedowns of some of them. In this clip, Hitler is the producer, and his lawyers tell him why he can’t do a DMCA takedown and how the EFF would stop him. He desperately searches for other ways to protect his movie.

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Hitler Orders A DMCA Takedown

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The Swimming Cities of Serenissima are art boats that are quite literally made out of junk down to their Mercedez 240 D diesel engines. A merry crew of artists are sailing these pieces of art to the Biennale in Venice, which is a fancy contemporary art show that is just perfect for crashing. Here is an update on the trip from Chicken John:

I’m in Italy. We are traveling in little canals, but the bridges are low and we keep getting kicked out of the canals and sent back to the Adriatic. Sea. The Adriatic Sea. It’s the ocean. It’s huge. It’s not like a big lake. This ‘aint Camp Tipsy. We are piloting ocean-going vessels in serious swell on boats made of bullshit. It’s pretty amazing. Everyday I simultainiously fall in love and a few hours later I feel like I’m wasting my time. I’m totally confused. It happens when you spend too much time with vegans. The crew are 30 art-types who are all totally great on their own but as a collective they are impossible and the logistics are maddning. The boats aren’t even done, really. We are building as we go. We were underway and Steve was welding a muffler pipe. It’s stupid. I watched someone cut a piece of wood in half with a leatherman yesterday. We are cutting steel with a hacksaw. We’ve got a welder, but it’s 110. We’ve got a grinder, but it’s 220. Half the tools are 220. Everyones cell phone is deep 6ed. My tools are gone, eaten by the sea. We had a few problems with drive shafts and sheer pins, but we stopped in a little fishing town and a adorable old Italian man fabricated us a sleeve to protect the vibration and we havn’t had a problem since. He worked for 12 hours and charged us $160. People give us fish. The curiosity is very reserved here. Italy is kinda fancy. I’m in the North. It reminds me of Palm Beach.

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They are going to arrive at the Beinealle soon where they are going to put on a show. For those folks in the region, it takes place June 4th-6th at Isla Certo sa Vento di Venezia Hotel.

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Update on the Swimming Cities of Serenissima

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Orson Wells does a frozen food radio spot... almost becomes an art performance as Wells gets frustrated with the directors

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The World Air Sex Championships is like the US Air Guitar Championships, but with less fake guitar and more fake orgasms. The Air Sex 2009 Tour kicks off on June 6th in Austin traveling to 15 cities in 21 days with a competition at a The Independent in San Francisco on June 24th.

Never been to an Air Sex show before? Here’s what you need to know: it’s a lot like Air Guitar, but instead of rocking out with an imaginary guitar, you’re making sweet and/or filthy love with an imaginary sex partner. You choose a clip of music, you show up in whatever sort of wardrobe you like, and you come up on stage and show everyone how you do it. Or how you wish you could do it. Or how you once had it done to you, and oh my god was that a bad idea and while it’s embarrassing to show that act to a room of strangers, you know that you need to do it now in order to make sure that no one else falls down the same rabbit hole you got stuck inside. Or, you know, just do it however you want. The only rules we have are the laws laid down by the state we’re in. Since the Alamo serves alcohol, you can’t get naked. And since we serve food as well, all orgasms have to be simulated (or at least arguably so). Other than that, you’re free to do whatever it takes to impress the judges, the audience in the theater, and the world!

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The World Air Sex Championships 2009 Tour

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A <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/27/bb-video-dance-dance.html".recent episode of Boing Boing Video features Dance Dance Immolation by Interpretative Arson from last month’s How to Destroy the Universe: Part 6 event at NIMBY. DDI is a spoof of the arcade game Dance Dance Revolution, but with flamethrowers pointed at the participants.

The episode is hosted by Aaron Muszalski (SFSlim) with video by Eddie Codel.

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Dance Dance Immolation on Boing Boing Video

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Panic, the guys who make really great Mac software like Transmit, Coda, CandyBar, and Unison, are having a big 50% off sale. Check out their hilarious infomercial.

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