Here in Austin, we’re lucky enough to be able to take classes in person from the uber savvy, Jennifer Perkins. If you aren’t lucky enough to make it to Austin, you have a chance to hear her discuss her crafty business advice this Sunday at 6pm CST on Inspired at Home on Blog Talk Radio. […]
It’s not April 1st, so I’m going to guess it’s real. The patented 18 button OpenOffice mouse – In partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, WarMouse announced the release of the OpenOfficeMouse, the first multi-button application mouse designed for the world’s leading open-source office productivity suite. With a revolutionary and patented design featuring 18 buttons, an […]
Craig Smith sent us these pics and note: My telescope is low end in the scope-world, a 60mm refractor. But I discovered the eyepiece is the same size as my digital camera telephoto lens. My digital camera is low end in the camera world, too, a 3.2MP. But put them together with a custom PVC […]
Martian landscapes – The Big Picture @ Boston.com via Waxy. Since 2006, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now […]
Most of the baby clothes my son wears are hand-me-downs or flea market finds, but my very favorites are usually the vintage ones. They don’t look like all the other baby outfits you see running (crawling?) around and they’re usually better made, too. The drawback is that they don’t always have snaps in the legs. […]
Giles Turnbull @ The Morning News has a fun article about the family Nomenclature for LEGO… He writes – It’s a scene that is replayed by kids and parents everywhere. And it’s the starting point for a unique quirk of language: Lego nomenclature. Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing […]
Here’s an interesting take on a coil gun, by Russian YouTube user fuckertrezv. Not content to simply make a high-power electromagnetic device, he designed his to be portable and run on batteries.
