Gallery / Toys and Collectibles - Villafane Studios Artist Ray Villafane
A great pumpkin carving tutorial from a sculptor.
A great site with all kind of designs and instructions for building a DIY headphone amp. Really useful and easy to understand.
eG Forums -> Playing with Food
Creepy Halloween goodies. The finger cookies are crazy ugly creepy. The brain is more realistic looking than most. Awesome.
Songbirdnest.com | Songbird Media Player
A desktop webplayer with a crazy array of features. download this and check it out.
This site sells "hot wire" type tools for sculpting styrofoam. Good for making things like fake tombstones for Halloween.
A tutorial on on eway to make prop/fake tombstones for Halloween. Nice results.
Simplified Building Concepts :: The Kee Klamp Concept
A really cool joint system for building with pipe. Kee Klamps come in all kinds of configurations to make frames for structures using tubular pipe of varying materials.
Yet another iPod manager - Home
An alternative to iTunes. And it doesn't install into the registry. Cool.
Cool. A preventative lotion and an after wash specifically targetted for Poison Ivy. Since I Geocache and I am more than normally allergic to the stuff this is a must have for me.
A great site with lits of tips and lessons learned on building home Halloween supplies. Especially useful is the info on their making a "Graveyard Fence".
These are some heat-reactive color-changing tiles. THe example they use could be called a "Mood Shower". I wold like to see if you used them on the floor if they would show footprints where a barefoot person walked.
List of front-ends/other useful apps - MP3Car.com Forums
A nice list of CarPC front ends to use for your homebuilt CarPC. Many of them are free or have demo versions.
Haunters Hangout Hangman Dancing Santa Hack
A great page showing how one guy turned a dancing santa into a kicking hangman prop for halloween. Must make one of these.
Keva, little wooden building planks, similar to Kapla blocks
These blocks are manufactured with such precision that they were able to use them to construct a over 51ft tower using nothing but gravity and friction to hold it together. Awesome.
MAKE a mind control hypnosis dream machine Cheap
A cool DIY for making glasses that flash lights at you. Purported to help some people sleep better.
The One-Click Butter Cutter - The New Butter Dish & Butter Slicer
Wow. This goes well with my inside the egg scrambler. This guy must have been pissed when they came out with squeeze butter.
A cool site full of cancle circuits. Need to start making these over the summer next year for halloween.
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine - Science Fiction Publication
Cool. THis is the first I have heard of this Science Fiction magazine. Looks interesting. I love the artwork for this month's cover. I may need to consider subscibing to it.
A low temperature molding and crafting material.
From the website:Polymorph is one of a new generation of commercial polymers set to have a major impact on model making and prototyping. This polymer has all the characteristics of a tough “engineering” material yet it fuses and becomes easily mouldable at just 62°C. It can be heated with just hot water or a hairdryer and moulded by hand to create prototypes and solve manufacturing problems currently outside the capacity of other materials.
Zombie Pumpkins! - pumpkin carving patterns
Great patterns for carving pumpkins. Also has some really cool tiki designs for carving watermelons. Cool for my next luau.
MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Enable the iPodScreenSaver
A quick note on how to make a repeating video on your video iPod. Links to other hacks and mods too!
A nice collection of tips for painting a bycycle. Since I am in the process of restoring an old bike I got at the thrift shop I wanted to save this link.
The Flying Crank Ghost - Instructions, Part 1
A great tutorial on how to make a really nice Flying Crank Ghost for Halloween. I need to make one of these.
Awesome! Apparently they use glue guns fed with compressed air to make durable cobweb effects. You can buy a gun from these guys. Neat.
How to make a Green Lantern ring
This is an awesome instructable where the author shows how he made a real ring of all three human GLs. Really neat.
Workshop Lesson: The Animated Haunted House
A great workshop lesson that documents the possibilities that can be achieved with Animated Lighting's products and programming to create an animated haunted house.
Computer & Electronic Services
Cowlacious Designs provides a bunch of cool products for your home Halloween effects. Especially cool is the Cave Eyes effects - a set of 15 LED pairs that blink individually looking like some sort of little critters (like rats or bats) with little blinking eyes.
reg:exp: GPS Google Maps Mash-up in 42 lines of code
This is a great quick hack for google maps to work with a USB GS unit. And it only uses 42 lines of code!