The Vinyl Frontier is an upcoming documentary by Daniel Zana about the world of vinyl toys. This is the trailer that he showed at this year’s Comic-Con.

There’s much talk online about Jay-Z’s new video in which he drives around Harlem while stacks of 500 Euro bills are flashed for the camera. Some see it as the latest sign of the dollar’s decline due to the fed’s continuing campaign of cutting interest rates. Notes Me-Fi commenter chef_boyardee: “Any REAL gangsta hedging against recession will be coming full circle to what [Jay-Z] did in the 1990s: flashing the gold chains, not dabbling in fiat currency.” Good call. And I’d also like to point out that “Euro, Euro Bill Y’all” doesnt quite have the same ring to it. from the fantastic WFMU’s Beware of the Blog

I could live off of Boing Boing alone for web entertainment. Their stories are are always interesting and incredibly unique.

BoingBoing.net, the popular everything blog that now gets 7.5 million page views a month, today will launch a daily online TV show.

Five days a week, tv.boingboing.net will feature free three-to-five-minute daily reports on the same sort of eclectic stuff that has made BoingBoing.net such a favorite with arty intellectuals, pop culture fans and Web geeks worldwide. BoingBoing’s platinum blond cyberbabe Xeni Jardin will host with the website’s co-creator, Mark Frauenfelder. Other co-founders David Pescovitz, London-based Cory Doctorow and New York-based BoingBoing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson will also host segments.

latimes story

let’s hope the production value is better than the boingboingboing audio podcast. My ears still hurt from the un-normalized audio.

Warren Ellis on Boing Boing news:

Well, I was sworn to secrecy, but now the LA Times has what is the biggest webculture story of the month at least, so: BoingBoing is launching a daily videocast.BoingBoing is already the elephant in the room; in terms of eyeballs, it’s now on a standing with newspapers (as opposed to websites like this one, which, at best, have the same kind of readership that Frank Chu does). Hell, BoingBoing probably broadcasts to more people than does Air America every day.

Adding video is huge in ways I don’t really have time to get into now (and people are still lagging behind the last huge thing they did). For now, I’m just going to say that I think this is wonderful, and congratulations to all.

Mark Ecko is producing a line of limited edition Star Wars apparel. So the question is will geeks want to look “stylish” in a $100 hoodie, or will the “cool kids” want to look like blinged out geeks? more info here