April 16, 2009
Interesting WiFi Attenna Mod
An interesting modification you can make to your wifi external attenna that is supposed to improve reception directionally.
| April 15, 2009
Speed Climbing DIY Timer
Speed Climbing Timing - Part 1 Sensors | IR Sensors, Speed timing | sawdust.see-do.org
A build diary for putting together a solid state Speed Climbing timer by a Dad for his kids events.
| April 05, 2009
I gots me a new toy!
I picked up a new toy over the weekend. It's the first tech toy I've purchased in over a year. I think the last thing prior to this was when we replaced the broken TV. I don't count cell phones since they are pretty much ubiquitous now.
I got a netbook.
Yep. One of those little mini laptops with the tiny everything; screen, harddrive, keyboard (especially keyboard). It's all teeny tiny.
But it's so cool!
Continue reading "I gots me a new toy!"
| February 26, 2009
Crazy Video Art Project
NSFW. A crazy NYC Public access Video art project made of music and video snippets. Trippy.
| February 25, 2009
Excellent article about Brooklyn NY foodie explosion.
Brooklyn’s New Culinary Movement - NYTimes.com
A fun article about the small business eplosion of food and food-related businesses growing in Brooklyn. Great resource list at the end.
| Make a font out of your own handwriting - For Free!
Font Generator - Make Your Own Handwriting Font With Your Fonts
Great site that will make a font out of your handwriting for free! Squee!
| Great little mini robots
HEXBUG Micro Robotic Creatures
Cute little mini robots that are relatively inexpensive.
Rainbow cake!
Rainbow Cake: No Decorating Talent Required! | Geekdad from Wired.com
An awesome idea for decorating a cake with food coloring that is pretty low on the "how hard is it to do" scale.
Need to make this for the next birthday cake.
January 12, 2009
File under home materials
Transmaterial: Strong Enviroboard
A new style wallboard for your home that is water and fire proof. Use this in Dreamhouse 3.0.
January 09, 2009
January 08, 2009
A pile of free photoshop tutorials.
60 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, .PSDs and Resources
60 free tutorials. Wow.
| Organic Steampunk Clocks
Amazing artistry on these milled and machined metal steampunk clocks with a real organic feel.
Awesome illustrator
Has some great t-shirt designs. ALso is the guy who did the vader shooting target.
Gun targets of real villians
Olly Moss Shoots the Baddies - Josh Spear, Trendspotting
A great link to a flicker collection of shooting targets with real villians like vader and the terminator.
| December 30, 2008
Jo walton weighs in on Christmas Books
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Christmas Books
Over on Tor.com Jo Walton weighs in on some of her favorite Christmas books. Some stuff to check out. Plus mine the comments for more books to read.
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