A few weeks ago I was at O’Reilly’s Foo camp and while I thought I saw a lot of interesting things, took photos and met a lot of people- this write up from the son of one of the folks there is perhaps the best one I’ve read. Note to self, try to look at the world through eyes like these all the time. Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member laurence posted a neat photo in the MAKE pool – This is a marble-run made out of milk cartons. I saw it at the Tokyo National Museum where they had a whole room filled with various creative ways of “recycling” these cartons. Link.
Evidently this isn’t the first, but somebody’s running a bot on Google Talk which essentially creates a chat room for Talk users. A few folks seem to think this is Google’s doing, although I can’t see this having as much practical application as oh, say, actual rooms. Source code included. Link.
Fabienne Serrière has a couple really good HOW TOs on getting started with Csound and then she shows constructing a homemade MIDI controller circuit and using the new device to control Csound in real time. Link.
Awhile back I wrote about the surprise book and poster I received in the mail from Flickr – and now the service that lets you print your photos to a book/poster is live (beta). $15.95 for a perfect-bound book or $9.99 for a poster. For the books you can do all photos, sets and by date. There are lots of options for layout too- could make a nice gift. Link.
MAKE doesn’t get political, but we’re backing one candidate in 2008 I think we can all agree on. In times of great need, the people look for a great man to show them the way and lead them to a brighter future. Look no more America, that man is here. “Human nature. I do something nice for you, you do something nice for me, like not kill me. Next thing you know, we’re friends.” – Macgyver. Link.
From Etsy – a place to buy and sell all things handmade…an inside-out computer. The motherboard, instead of being hidden away, faces outward for all to see. The entire case was made by hand using oak hardwood and 1/4″ amber-tinted plexiglass. [