How-to: Avoid “Facebook malware” 05/07/2010 Nice tip spotted in the BB comments for avoiding “Facebook malware” – In Firefox, install AdBlock plus, add these filters...
Million dollar baby – Businesses designing and selling open source hardware, making millions 05/06/2010 Ladyada and I gave a talk about some of the open source hardware businesses and how they’re doing. Over the...
Developing Flash content for mobile devices – hop in the time machine, back 9 years 05/05/2010 “Developing Flash content for mobile devices” is top of mind for many developers and tech journals at the moment. While...
“The Data-Driven Life” 05/02/2010 The Data-Driven Life @ NYTimes.com explores a group of people that aren’t quite collectors, they’re trackers… Humans make errors. We...
Make your own 3G router (with a $99 Chumby) 04/29/2010 The chumby One is on sale at Costco for $99, this is a *deal*. And here’s a cool hack –...
Mailing yourself money to get out of paying taxes hack (doesn’t work) 04/28/2010 I was just reading our post about the “hollow spy bolt” and ran across the government group with RSS feed...
Cook Your Meat in a Beer Cooler: The World’s Best (and Cheapest) Sous-Vide Hack 04/28/2010 Cook Your Meat in a Beer Cooler: The World’s Best (and Cheapest) Sous-Vide Hack @ Serious Eats via Kottke. By...
Build robots, do experiments, blow stuff up 04/27/2010 “Tax_Ninja” is a proud parent via Reddit. My kid designed his own scientist costume for career day (including the “to...
Arduino ant farm – is a musical instrument 04/26/2010 Ants walking through IR gates manipulate the Auduino synth program. John spotted this at the RobotFest / Mid-Atlantic Mini Maker...
Homemade scuba-BORG costume in ‘Trek Nation’ documentary trailer 04/25/2010 I’m going to see this Rod Roddenberry ‘Trek Nation’ documentary the moment it comes out. I’m hoping the maker of...