Prologue - The Diamond Invention
A website about Edward Jay Epstein's book about what I like to call "The Shiny Gravel Conspiracy". It details the monopolistic practices of DeBeers and the whole made-up custom of the diamond engagement ring.
Interesting reading.
These guys played Zombies! with a town made of legos. Great idea. Zombies! is a fun game even without Lego.
SBaGen - Binaural Beat Brain Wave Experimenter's Lab
A free program to mess with your brain waves at home for Fun (?) and profit.
L.E.D. Earrings
Here is a quick little instructable for making LED earrings. Really neat. I was thinking about the idea of LED accessories the other day although I was mostly thinking of Hair clips and the like so it could support the electronics. This showed me I need to rethink what I considered the limitations.
The part that does it for me is the things he says to their automated routing IVR when it asks him what kind of help he needs. Genius.
Excellent DIY on building a IPR out of a quartz radiant heater. Includes addtional version by imitators. Nice.
A neat site that sell Box Rivets and gives away plans for building cool things like castles and pirate ships out of cardboard boxes. And the rivets are resusable so you can make new projects or disassemble that pirate ship and put it in dry dock for the winter season.
These would be cool for making a puppet theatre that you could more easily transport for shows.
I love the castle.
Use this site to find where movies go back to back. That way you can see your action flick and then get her romantic comedy out of the way the same day. Awesome.
Pricenoia - Get the best prices on books, the international way!
This site checks all the versions of Amazon to see if there is a cheaper site than the US one. This would be very cool as I found out that one Amazon can be cheaper than another a few years ago when I got some Harry Potter editions cheaper from the UK Amazon site. Cool.
An excellent resource for the Asterisk open source phone system. This thing can be confiured to be anything from the world's most powerful answering machine to your own little home PBX. Neato.
DIY Mods: Feature: Lighten your keychain Archives
This article describes a way to take all those discount dongles off your keychain and make one card that contains all of them. Great idea!
A really nice plush version of that wacko hairy lobster that they found last week. Nice job.
craftgrrl: Cheap screen printing tutorial
A really cool cheap way to do a screen-print. Neat idea that uses glue and an embroidery hoop.
Make It Easy--Classic Open Tote
A nice pattern for a classic tote bag. Even if you just use this as a starting point.
Puppet Patterns - Puppet Materials - Shop for hand puppet pattern kits and puppet making supplies.
A site that has all kinds of kits and patterns for making puppets. Some neat packages here.
Brownie Points » Customized Conversation Hearts
A great idea for using an item I didn't know existed. Food coloring markers. In this case they make some filthy-mouthed candy hearts. Kinda funny. I need to get some of these markers.
Wee Wonderfuls: tutorial for shrinky dink pins
Hey. This is so cool. I bet you could make buttons this way too. Could make cool matching retro buttons for projects.
A source for the Munny do-it-yourself Vinyl Figure. YOu can make these into whatever you want. Who art exhibits have been designed around these things. Fun!
Letterfu - Letter-writing without envelopes, cutting or glue
Take one sheet of paper and turn it into both a letter and it's envelope. Sweet!