HOW TO – Sew an Adjustable Chef’s Apron
Instructables user compwalla made this incredibly detailed and funny tutorial for making an adjustable cooking apron, in both adult and kids’ sizes, complete with armhole casing for an adjustable neck strap.
Month: September 2008
Got any myths you want busted?
Jamie and Adam of Mythbusters will be doing 2 shows in Seattle on October 4th. Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage take you on a behind-the-scenes look at the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters with a hilarious and entertaining Inside The Scientist’s Studio style presentation. They will bring stories of myths gone wrong and outtakes of segments never […]
Star Simpson on BBtv
Today on Boing Boing TV, Xeni talks with Star Simpson, the former MIT student who ran afoul of Logan Airport security when she wore a breadboard on her sweatshirt to the airport and was mistaken for a suicide bomber. I hate when that happens! Star Simpson’s first interview on the Boston airport LED sweatshirt scare.
LEGO Mac Pro houses 2 machines
This spot-on LEGO Man enclosure sports 2 machines running OSX within – Made out of 2,588 Lego bricks, the Mac Pro was designed in Lego Digital Designer 2.0 for the MacMod Challenge 2008. The Hackintosh is a plain PC with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz CPU running Mac OS X, while the Mac Mini […]
CRAFT Project: Needle & Thread Hoodie Revamp
It seems like a large percentage of my female friends are either pregnant, trying to get pregnant, or dealing with new babies. It must be something in the water! Here’s a fun project you can make for your favorite little one, which is quick enough to whip up in an afternoon–and best of all, it’s […]
17 years of rotating self portraits
You’ve most likely seen a few “daily self portrait collections, but how many of them spanned 17 years? Dan Hanna describes his project – 17 years worth of taking 2 photos a day as my head rotates in sync with the Earth around the Sun. This is a non-dejittered, lo-res, highly compressed, preliminary version of […]
HOW TO – Make a Paper Tape Dress Form
I love this very detailed tutorial by jejune on her process of making a paper tape dress form. [ via Not Martha ] jejune writes: After some research, I decided to go with paper tape, instead of duct tape. Word on the street is that duct tape dummies can get lumpy and misshapen over time, […]
