In its original conception, the Matrix was a pinnacle achievement for intelligent machines.  Over time, however, its operating system became cluttered and sluggish, and needed to be reinstalled.  Unfortunately, the creators...

BoingBoing wound up at the Crowdfire tent at the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco. They shot this amazing exposition of how the tent actually works.  A social media experiment of this magnitude not only looks...

Here's a nice clip of a Formula 1 race that had one of the cars pulling off the track after losing a wheel.  What happens next is pretty unbelievable: the wheel bounces up and over the fence, into the parking lot, and...

Here's a clever little music video from YouTube user "dennisaliu" that sets a whole bunch of Mac windows to the music of "Again & Again" by The Bird and The Bee.  The automation of the windows and text works right in rhythm...

Something like this was just bound to happen. Some incredibly patient button pusher decided to take all of the sounds from Windows 98 and Windows XP and make a song out of them, creating melodies by pitch shifting some of...