Prankster Reimagines 3-yr-old Eyesore Construction Site As Giant Happy Playspace

(Photo: courtesy John Creed, via My Green Lake, a Seattle area neighborhood blog.) In the Seattle neighborhood of Green Lake, a three-acre empty lot known to locals as the "Big Hole" has been reimagined as an awesome and ginormous play … Continue reading →

Prankster reimagines 3-yr-old eyesore construction site as giant happy playspace

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Pi4 Workerbot Is Only Happy When It Steals Your Job

As if it wasn’t bad enough that robots are stealing our jobs, this particular one actually rubs it in with facial expressions. Fraunhofer’s pi4 workerbot is fully equipped to take over from a human (or two) on an assembly line, with two 7-DoF arms with force-feedback hands and a set of three high resolution cameras sophisticated enough to let it inspect parts for quality. It doesn’t just put you out of work, though: stealing your job makes pi4 happy:

Pi4 Workerbot Is Only Happy When It Steals Your Job

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A Mortgage Nightmare’s Happy Ending

A substantial modification of their mortgage helped Amy and Robert Ahleman keep their home. But while their story is uplifting, it’s hardly the norm for the system.

A Mortgage Nightmare’s Happy Ending

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Happy Holidays and New Year's wishes, from David Silverman (The Simpsons)

Each year, Simpsons director David Silverman draws a cool holiday card, and this year, Boing Boing gets first dibs at sharing it with the world. I love it! (The image at top would be the outside of the printed card design, and at bottom, the inside). Thanks, David, and enjoy, everyone! He's on Twitter, by the way.

Happy Holidays and New Year's wishes, from David Silverman (The Simpsons)

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Happy Hindi Christmas

A Hindu man has his forehand painted with a message in Hindi "Happy Christmas" on the river banks of the Ganges river on the eve of Christmas, in the northern Indian city of Allahabad, on December 24, 2010. [REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash]

Happy Hindi Christmas

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Happy Holidays From BotJunkie

Our posting on BotJunkie has been a little bit lighter over the last week as we’ve all taken some well-deserved time off to suffer through holidays and family… It’s times like these that you really appreciate how great robots are, since most of the time they do exactly what you tell them to do and they generally come with prominent ‘off’ switches.

Happy Holidays From BotJunkie

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Talking Business: A Happy Ending to a Raw, but Common, Tale

Lilla Roberts fell behind on her mortgage for a while over a paying history of around 20 years. But her modification was so sloppily handled, she could have lost her home.

Talking Business: A Happy Ending to a Raw, but Common, Tale

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