Cory over at BoingBoing writes: The Mail.app fan-site Hawk Wings has a great tip for Mail.app users — a simple command that many are swearing by as a means of evincing a gigantic speedup in Mail.app’s performance. If you’re suffering through the same hell I lived with back in my PowerBook days, you might give […]
The polyreactory assemblage of contemplation, gadgetry, and exothermic liberation (from the Kircher Society)… January’s Inaugural Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society concluded with Jesse Ferguson setting off a 20-ft. long Rube Goldberg-esque contraption that he had constructed across the length of the stage. The spring-loaded, balloon-popping, laser-emitting, semi-automatic-rubber-band-shooting, fireball-producing contraption was designed in Seattle, mailed […]
mushmouth26 from the MAKE Flickr photo pool posted up a picture from tonight’s lunar eclipse, nice work! If you took photos, post them up in the photo pool! Lunar eclipse on Flickr – Link.
Chuck has this week’s installment of “The week in tools”– We looked at lots of practical tools this week, including some uber-inexpensive interlocking flooring that’s great for anywhere you stand a lot – like the workbench – and costs about a quarter as much as the tool-store standard, a five-outlet extension cord adapter that snaps […]
Make: is going to space! Have you ever wanted to go up into space? Well, you don’t have to win a golden ticket, be a millionaire, or an astronaut… you can send your own payload into space! We’re using weather balloons to go up to approximately 100k feet armed with 4 cameras… 20 megapixels of […]
This project took a bit longer than a week and a total of 16 people contributed to the project. The only way this worked was to use a wiki. Each team member posted anything they learned or links and info they found on the wiki. All this research and work is now compiled on the […]
Every once in a while, you’ll come across an image or video where sensitive information has been redacted using a blur or mosaic filter. Just take a look at license plates on COPS or do a search for “google check” and you’ll see a few common examples. Putting an image through a blur filter is […]
