…if you’ve got ten minutes to spare today, make some time to watch Multiple Sidosis. It’s a short, home-made film by Sid Laverents in 1969. It opens with Sid on his birthday morning, being given an Akai M8 reel-to-reel four-track by his wife (who shows that mixture of distain, confusion and mild concern that will be familiar to any married gear-head). [via]. Link.
…a little tutorial about how to make your entire site more mobile-friendly without even touching your pages. You may think that since you write valid code and separate structure from presentation at all times, your site already works great on mobile devices. You may also think bad things don’t happen to good people. In both cases, you’d be wrong. Link.
Paul is a master craftsman in all aspects of fine jewellery and tableware. He has been invited to exhibit at the Goldsmith’s Hall, London, several times in recent years, including in 2003 in the ‘Love Story’ exhibition, where he showed a hand-crafted and jewel-studded 18pc cutlery set complete with matching silver wine goblets. Now he has a blog and shows how he makes all this stuff…I really like the master crafter blogs Hugh has seeded. Link.
The mission of Inveneo, a nonprofit group of inveterate high-tech adventurers, is to bring developing communities that never reached a 20th century level of infrastructure into the 21st century. Its bicycle-powered system brings not just VoIP but also e-mail and Web browsing to remote areas, using a combination of Linux and the Asterisk open source PBX. Link.
Our pals over at Phone Scoop are auctioning off one silver RAZR, one black RAZR and one BLNC Bluetooth car kit to benefit our friends at the EFF, it’s the EFF’s 15th birthday this week. So if you want to help the EFF and score a cool phone, have at it. If you happen to win, we’ll help you get your own content on the phones too (videos play nicely on these). Link.
I’ve always thought the Build-a-Bear stores in malls are kinda neat, the kids can build their own Teddy bears they way the want. I even made one once as a present. What I didn’t know- it seems it’s not so clear is what happens to the information the kids type in the computer terminal to get their bear birth certificates. The “opt in” preference apparently is pre-checked. The SF Chronicle has a story about this. The bears are cool, just watch the kids and don’t have them put their personal info at the end. Might be a good way to teach them about “opting out” [via] Link.
13 pounds of gummy bears, sorted out, melted, and layered into an empty tub of animal crackers. A day and a half of work. He used different colors so the gummy bear has stripes, as each layer of melted bear was poured in. [