Sister Diane of CraftyPod just launched the Handmade Holiday Alerts on the DIY Alert site. Diane writes: It works like this: every Friday, I send out a fun email newsletter that introduces five Portland makers and tells a little story about them and their work. From it, you can link through to their websites for […]
This baseball hat has a solar panel on top and DC motorized fan on the front with a nice ventilation hole cut in the bill. Very handy for a summer day or also useful for walks through well lit bakeries if you want the full aromatic experience. Solar Fan Cap – Link
I’m setting my clock back now, don’t forget to set back yours… On a related note here’s a neat tidbit from the origins of daylight savings time (Wikipedia) – During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin anonymously published a letter in 1784 suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by arising earlier […]
Because of the cross domain security restrictions in most Javascript implementations, it’s normally impossible for one HTML document to communicate with another frame, popup, or iframe unless the two pages are served from the same domain. James Burke came up with a clever solution to this problem, allowing bidirectional communication between a parent window and […]
I landed in Vienna today where I am doing an artist in residence for the month of November courtesy of Monochrom. Once I landed I found that Metalab, the local hacker space, was having Metaday 8 which was an open house and presentation followed by 5 minute lightning talks. Metalab is a pretty awesome space […]
This last week I was interviewed and chatted about making things on the NY Times Tech Talk podcast. – Link
Chuck writes in – Who didn’t walk out of The Last Starfighter — yep, the Lance Guest movie from the ’80s — hoping to find a Starfighter game in the arcade? Sadly, the game was never produced. But some guys over at Rogue Synapse recreated a playable version of the actual game from the movie […]
