Year: 2009

Dead pixel massage

Dead pixel massage

Mobile phones on bar tables deserve what they get. But that doesn’t make it suck any less when you’re the drunk with the dead pixels. Ask MAKE subscriber Tim Watson. When his iPhone got a party night beer bath, he was faced with either replacing his screen or trying one of the free utilities or […]

Settlers of Catan in Cupcake Form

Via BoingBoing Offworld, Brandon Boyer writes: Say what you will about the game-cake meme, but it’s not often that the cakes themselves are playable, as with quintanaroo’s Cupcakes of Catan. Plus, it’s not often that you discover that they’re not the only edible versions of the game, competing against the Pizza of Catan and the […]

Nerd merit badges

Nerd merit badges

Over at Global Nerdy, Joey deVilla writes about some cool merit badges for geeks: Just as Boy Scouts earn merit badges for accomplishments in some area of study, now we geeky types can earn Nerd Merit Badges for nerdy accomplishments. The first in the series is now available: it’s “Open Source Contributor”, pictured below. (In […]