A few weeks ago, we canned 60 pounds of dry-farmed Early Girl tomatoes. My CSA sent along a recipe for oven-candied tomatoes, so we did a small batch of those as well. WOW! They were so good that we just got another 60 pounds specifically for oven-candying. Cooking them slowly in the oven intensifies the […]
Hack the new Xbox Kinect and collect a $1k bounty for open-source drivers… It was $1k but they doubled it after Microsoft didn’t seem to like the idea… Open source hardware company Adafruit Industries is offering a $2,000 bounty for the first person or group to upload code and examples under an open source license […]
The Lansing Noise, a regular read for me when I was a student at Michigan State University, posted a simple recipe for Baked Sweet Potato Fries for their regular tailgating recipe offering.
YouTuber SaskView is doing alright with this stunt: He’s coupled two Most Useless Machines together with a bar, at the switches, and turned them loose against one another. The result is highly amusing to watch (500K+ views so far), even without the whole “it’s a metaphor for the two-party system” bit. [via Boing Boing]
Beautiful Modeler – use an iPad to make 3D models… Beautiful Modeler is a software tool for gestural sculpting using a multi-touch controller such as an iPad. Each finger is used to control a single touch point in the model, with multiple layers working to build up 3D volume. As the controller is connected over […]
Sam O. of Perth, Western Australia, sent us pix of a replica chainsaw her husband made for his Ash costume, using found objects and junk from his shed. Very nice!
By Andrew Lewis It’s difficult to beat treacle sponge pudding on a winter’s day, and this super-fast take on the recipe will get you out of the kitchen in record time. This is a very filling dessert, and the quantities below will make enough pudding for four or five hungry people. <!– Download the Recipe […]
