Month: January 2011

Crafting Your Online Presence: A Good New Year’s Blog Re-Org

Crafting Your Online Presence: A Good New Year’s Blog Re-Org

(Image by juhansonin, via Flickr) By Diane Gilleland The longer you blog, the more your blog will subtly change. And this is a good thing. After all, you’re always evolving as a person, so why wouldn’t this be reflected in your blog? But, as your blog changes and grows, you’ll want to make sure your […]

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3D Printed Cupcake Stand

Matt Mets printed this hyperboloid cupcake stand on a MakerBot Thing-o-Matic 3D printer, yum!

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24-hour sky panorama

Laboriously captured by photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos on December 30-31, 2010, from the ruins of the ancient Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, Greece. Technical details at Earth Science Picture of the Day, and a more personal perspective at Chris’s Greek Sky Forum. [via Gizmodo]

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New PS3 firmware hacked within hours

New PS3 firmware hacked within hours

New PS3 firmware hacked within hours… Hackers have already moved to crack open new PS3 firmware that’s not even been out for a day. Sony released a new firmware update (version 3.56) last night that it said “adds a security patch” to the console – the firm’s first move to shut out hackers since the […]

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Yobot: Make a Precision Yogurt Maker

Here’s your chance to try your hand at precision fermentation, soldering, and simple programming by making your own Yobot, a yogurt maker that uses an Arduino to run a thermostat attachment that controls the temperature of a crockpot. If you’ve never heard of an Arduino, it’s an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use […]

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Smugglers caught with weed-flinging catapult

Smugglers caught with weed-flinging catapult

My pal Alan Dove has thoughtfully suggested that these guys might’ve done better to build themselves a trebuchet.

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