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Make Flickr photo pool member Laurence writes “Two years ago, I decided to make a Lego minifig (ie: “Lego man”) costume for Halloween. The hardest part was building the head. Here’s how I did it…” Model Railroad Slums
Jeffery writes “This guy builds train layouts, but of scenes of urban decay – slums, pawn shops, scrapyards, liquor stores, and lots of graffiti, much of it build from scratch. Really amazing photographs.” Link.
Filed under the “don’t try this a home” Maker project. Someone seems to have replaced some of the hand electronics in a Robosapien robot and added a flame thrower, since that’s exactly what it was missing. [
NASA’s Blue Marble
Check out the video on the site – Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite, scientists and data visualizers stitched together a full year’s worth of monthly observations of the land surface, coastal oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, photo-like mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet. Link.
“Free” SkypeOut calls…
A few readers sent this in, when you call 1800FREE411 from Skype you can use their ad-supported service to make other calls for free. When you call it, it helps you look up a U.S. person or business from their directory service and then connects the call… And the directory service bears the cost of the call as it seems to be ad-supported. So you use SkypeOut to connect to the service, and the service to connect to the one you’re calling. [via] Link.
Katamari Damacy 2 oscillating fan hack
Boingboing has a really clever Katamari Damacy hack…“This Livejournaller connected an oscillating fan to his PS2’s joystick in order to have repeat the same movements over and over again without intervention, enabling him to collection one million roses in the video game We Love Katamari Damacy.” [via] Link.
Knit Zombies
There’s a lot of zombie action going on lately – These little knit zombies are reenacting George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead [via] Link. The “stuff i made” section has some neat projects too, like an iPod cozy.