A one Dollar Compound Microscope
A site with a DIY microscope. Science can be fun AND cheap!
Neat site that shows how to make water-propelled rockets out of plastic bottles and stuff. Sounds like a fun weekend project.
www.super8telecine.co.uk | diy telecine | super 8 to digital video
A how-to for building a unit to transfer super-8 film to digital. Awesome. Save for future reference.
David Scrimshaw's Blog: Tasty Dessert: Toxic Waste
An aquarium full of Jell-O, cookies, fruit, and every disgusting gummy criiter you can imagine. Yum.
Venus: Clare Crespo's Jell-O Aquarium recipe
A fishbowl full of jello and gummy fish. A great party decoration for a summer bar-b-que.
This site is for a guy who puts up a pretty elaborate haunted cemetery. It's full of great tips and explanations for some really neat effects.
The Flying Crank Ghost - Instructions, Part 1
This site details exactly how to construct and deploy this amazing ghost illusion. I could see making this rig and then making different animatrons for different holidays. For example you could make a waving santa for Christmas, an Easter Bunny for Easter, etc. Excellent descriptions and photos.
Haunted Dimensions-The Cookie Phantom Manor
This person made a sugar cookie replica of the Paris Disneyland's Phantom Manor. Nice centerpiece and dessert for a Halloween party.
Advanced Projects and Kits for Electronics
Collections of electronics tutorials. I love this kind of stuff.
Calendar: Create a customized calendar from your digital photographs
Excellent website to make a customized calendar with a picture from a flikr account. Really cool idea! Magazine Man could make a HLS bikini shot calendar. heh.
A neat blog entry about a homebrew version of a game where you use little baloon-covered nut-cans as trampolines to bounce a ball-cearing around a specified path. Neat little game. Looks like fun.
This guy from TX carves some amazing pumpkins. He uses the rind as a carving medium rather than the traditional "triangle-eye" style. Very neat.
::: Handmade plush characters :::
Neat online gallery of an art show featuring really neat plush characters. Looks like something right out of a cartoon. Sweet!
Jeez. I cannot believe I am posting an excuse blog entry but that is exactly what this is. Between my new job (of which I will not be blogging about) and a bachelor party, at which my participation lasted almost 24 hours, not counting prep time (of which I will REALLY not be blogging about) I've been slacking off in the blog arena. And I feel pretty bad about it. Not that I have legions of people who read this site but because up until lately I had been keeping a pretty good record of posting at least once a day M-F. And with the MM Crap Giveaway post I was going to make good on my attempts to write more posts with substance to accompany my posts about the cool and unusual. So time to get back on the stick and try to at least post once a day. And see if I can get some of that writing stuff here as well.
This site is a giant steaming pile of papercraft links. More here than one should really be able to go through in a day. at least if you have a job.
The webstore of a crazy LA shop full of things both Retro and Tiki. I found it off of Cherry Capri's site. Thanks Cherry!
Wow. This thing is a musical instrument built out of 14 continuously running walkmans. It has a bunch of original Mellotron samples and some drum tracks. What a cool homebrew instrument.
I was on my way out the door this morning when I literally stumbled over my share of the "Crap Giveaway" over at Magazine Man's Masthead. I quickly returned inside and verified the contents then left on my way to another joyous workday, happier for having received my package and plotting the details of my execution of my half of the deal.
As a small recap and as the beginning part of the bargain to blog my adventure I will go over what has gone before.
There's this guy, Magazine Man. And he has this blog and a basement full of crap. To keep his wife from enforcing her wifely progative and tossing out all of his precious hoard he came up with the idea of a "Crap Givaway" for all of his friends who regularly frequent his blog. Basically, he encouraged people to post bids in the comments of his blog in the manner of a "pay it forward" kind of offer. Anything was fair game as long as the MM approved. Post the winning bid and a morsel of genuine MM crap would be headed your way. Who could resist?
Wanting to participate but having a little trouble coming up with something that I could do that was both (somewhat) altruistic and (somewhat) interesting, I was at a loss for a decent bid. Then I noticed that J Sto., as a bid, offered to brighten the day of her local comic store geeks by dressing up as her sultry, sexy, be-skirted self and visiting her local comic shoppe. Inspiration struck as I realized that rather than trying to impress the MM by my feeble attempts to minister to orphans and widows I should go with my strengths and humiliate myself in an effort to amuse him. But in my case, there would be no day brightening involved for my poor local comic shop clerks...
As the designated Crap Recipient I posted a bid on one of the lots being offered. My bid consisted of going to my local comic shop dressed in a skirt. As the charitable element of my bid I was to purchase my ensemble at my local charity resale shop. And I would both blog the shopping and the visit to the “Robot’s Dungeon”. With photos, natch.
Now, on the face of it, this may not seem like much of a big deal. But that leaves out the fact that I look more like Kevin Smith than Kate Smith and that my hairy Hobbitish legs and feet were never designed to be seen in a skirt and/or heels. Yeah, that’s right. Heels. I figure, if I’m gonna be a bear might as well be a grizzly, in size 11 man-pumps.
If I can find some, that is.
Card Bawdy. Card is a four letter word.
A great site with a few adult paper models. Too funny. Needds more models tho.
This company that has a free party/meeting/event notification and management service (think eVite) just got aquired by google. I love eVite but there are a ton of things I hate about how it works and thinks I want that it doesn't do. I think I will be trying this out to see how well it works. I'd really like somethig that I could use for theatre projects I am involved in as well as other events I like to go to.
I must go to this site and get some of their models. The one I link to here is a little animated circus track where little rollers are moved up the stairs only to roll back down to the bottom when the crank handle is turned. Amazing detail.
Haunted Memories Changing Portraits
I want a few of these to put up in my house for my Halloween party. Too freakin' creepy.