Zevro - Innovative & Unique Kitchenware
I eat cereal almost every mornign for breakfast. I nedd oen of these. Maybe the double.
CDN – The Time and Temperature Company
These are the thermometers I want in my kitchen. I would like to be as precise with some of my other cooking endevours as I am when I deep fry turkey. I especially want on eof the grill surface thermometers. Goes to 700 degrees F.
A great source for foodie kitchen supplies. Need to get some of their thermometers.
What a neat idea. A sprinkle of powdered sugar and you have an edible winter scene. I'm ready for the holiday baking to begin. :)
UncommonGoods: Creatively Designed Gifts and Home Accessories
Neat stuff. especially the retro items and lamps.
Another one. I would like to make modifications to improve this such as the following: Build a way to insert the projectiles into the tube without wrecking the vaccuum. Maybe something like the sleeve at the bank. Or something that when you rotate it so that you can insert the projectile it closes the path but opens when you close the opening. Also maybe a sensor that turns the vaccuum off right before the projectile passes the section point so as to not slow it down. Also a hinged cap for the exit end instead of a piece of paper.
Cartography: Soviet topographic maps
A blog post about Soviet Maps without copyright that in many cases are the best available for that area. Good future reference.
This guy does the most amazing trompe l'oeil murals. I wish we could get some actual scupture as beautiful as some of his paintings.
A beautiful collection of lamps and art boxes. Some great stuff for inspiration.
This site is awesome. It allows you to generate a official looking warning label that you can then save to your harddrive for printing or whatever. You could do some fun meme spreading with some labels from this.
Spectrum Glass ... No Fish Story
A short article about how you can cut a glass circle (sort of) underwater and an explanation of why it works.
This is pretty funny. Gotta make one of these for when I got to my nephews soccer games. I could stand on the side away from everyone and play rally music and just be annoying. Wheee.
Procuring Electronic Components
A great list of places to get samples for all your electronic needs. Need to contact some of these suppliers.
I found this on a website devoted to designer Alvin Lustig. It was in an ad he did for the Container Corporation of America and it had the following quote from John Ruskin on the benefits of education.
"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best,
and making what is best out of them;
and these two object are always attainable together, and by the same means.
The training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others."
I just really like that quote.
Asphalt Mosaics - diy.sometemple.com
This is awesome. The article encourages you to use it for subversive purposes but think how cool it would be to use this for a civic purpose like street identification or a way to mark utilities. I could see making one with my house number instead of that damn spray painted curb.
This site has directions and pictures of how to make a star knot (and it's practical application in making an icepick handle or chainsaw file handle) and lots of other fancy knots. I admit I am a knot nerd. I have at least 4 books at home on knot tying.
Wired 13.11: LeapFrog's Wild Ride
An article about the newest gadget from the folks who made the LeapPad. This thing is amazing. The part where he describes creating a working music keyboard system on paper just blew my mind.
HeadWize - Project: Build These Noise-Canceling Headphones by Jules Ryckebusch
Nice project. I like the flexibility to cange it into a giant ear or other things depending on how you use the microphones.
Cool Tool: Dual Lock Fastener Tape
Hmmm. I wish they used this stuff here. My damn tolltag keeps falling off my windshield. I can think of a ton of uses for such a cool fastener solution.
Found this on a MS Spaces website.
"How Smart is Your Right Foot?
This is funny, even funnier in front of someone, it will absolutely boggle your mind (slight exageration), and don't keep trying to outsmart your foot, cause you can't.
1. Sit down, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.
2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction."
This is insane. Furthur experimentation has shown me that you can rotate both your hand and your foot in the same direction but any attempt to make them go in oppisite directions makes everything go wrong. My assumption is that the same part of your brain is used to do both and it can't multiprocess. I do think if you practiced a lot you could probably eventually do it.
Go to this site if you are interested in Cryptography and Ciphers, but only if you have a few days to blow. This site is kind of a mini-tutorial on getting started on all things Cryptographic.
True Tale #3: A Kinder, Gentler Way to Say "Go Away" | Lifes Little Annoyances
Interesting story talking about 2 services available for people trying to "gently" reject someone's advances. A phone number and a email service that if you use to handout to people gives them a response that let's them know you aren't interested instead of having that confrontation real-time possibly in front of others. Interesting concept. Maybe this is how they will fire people in the future.
This guy with a little help from his neighbor built a 2 story woodstove-heated treehouse in his back yard. I will need to move out of TX most likely if I want to do this myself. I love it!
How to Build the CMoy Pocket Amplifier
This is a refined and expanded version of the DIY build a pocket amp that appeared in Make magazine. Lots of good extra info about tweaking it and putting it in different enclosures. Really nice job done on this article.
Lots of cool electronic and LED based projects. Also a "tingle-tron" for shocking your friends! Many bits are completely useless but there are some neat things like LED based lighting and night-lights.
For sale: Britain's underground city - Sunday Times - Times Online
The UK is unloading the super bunker they had kept hidden until 1989. You too can own the place where the British royalty and government were to hide in case of a USSR nuclear strike. I think they should make it into mod retro housing.