MASSIVELY PARALLEL

Kiva is so overwhelmed with lenders that its limiting loans so everyone has a chance.  Microfinance FTW!

 
Early holiday party! Pics here, explanation here.
(Also mentioned on the Make blog!  W00t!)

Look at these little guys go!

Dear Boingers,
I’m a longtime reader and BB fan. After the recent relaunch I eagerly added “BB Gadgets” to my daily RSS feed.
Today I dropped it.
I was annoyed by the flood of content, most of which isn’t worthy of carrying the BB impreteur. BB has never been about quantity over quality, but for some [...]

Electroma is a live-action robots-seek-to-become-human story.

Looks to be big on style, maybe not so much on substance. That’s fine with me. I loved Interstella 5555. This looks totally different–like Nicholas Roeg, but with robots. Sweet!
Bonus: Where Daft Punk got their samples from.

Yes, I know the site is borked. Wordpress threw a fit, and i haven’t had a chance to fix it. In the meantime, here’s a really amazing video.

After receiving a manifesto from “the Splasher” (person(s) unknown who’s been defacing street art around NYC over the last few months), Gothamist checks in with a lengthy critique and analysis. The gut shot is below:
A) Why are anarchists always so verbose? These “criticisms” could have been boiled down to five bullet points– [...]

There’s a saying that “Once is an exception, twice is coincidence, but three are a trend”. All we need is one more crazy desperate foundering candidate (no shortage of those; Edwards? McCain? Anyone in the back of the GOP pack? I’m looking at you). And this is a trend [...]

I had the idea to trace classic typefaces as fonts a while back, and let it languish in my notebook. That’ll teach me to sit on a good idea. It looks gorgeous.