Dale tweets: “Did not know that you should reformat flash memory cards frequently for your camera. More to do.” And points to this New York Times Gadgetwise column: Reformatting ensures that the data on the card and the file structure are clean, which will help you avoid error messages or missing images. And the longer […]
Today is the birthday of Joseph Priestley, the 18th century scientist, teacher, and political wonk who had a tremendous impact on the worlds of science and politics. He is credited with the discovery of oxygen (isolating it in its gaseous state). Priestley has been the subject of two “recent” books, The Lunar Men (actually five […]
Paper Forest has a post about a Japanese artist living in France, Aoyama Hina. Hina says of her work: They are super fine lacy-paper-cuttings done by a simple pair of scissors. My passion is to create a finest cutoff beyond the level of the very time-consuming needle lace making. I don’t follow traditional but I […]
The folks who make the “cratemen” around Melbourne were invited to make a float for the Adelaide Fringe Festival, and here’s what they came up with. From their account: We were reluctant however to simply relocate our street based work into a radically different arena. Instead we were interested in the idea of a parade […]
Rosie O’Donnell will be live in Etsy’s Virtual Labs on Friday, March 13, 2009. The Etsy Virtual Lab doors open at 2:45pm EDT and the event starts at 3pm EDT. There are only 120 seats, so make sure you get there on time! Danielle @Etsy writes: The Shop Live host is none other than Rosie […]
Here’s a fun project, and a feat in soft circuitry for sure: the musical bra, with very detailed instructions!
Meteotek is a Spanish high school project to build a meteorological sounding balloon equipped with temperature and pressure sensors, GPS, radio, and a still camera. They had a successful launched on February 28, 2009. Their Flickr pages are in (Catalan) Spanish, but the photos speak for themselves. It’s just endlessly amazing to me that the […]
