My Midwest partner in crime Chris Gardner asked me to be one of the design bloggers to submit their holiday wish list to Curbly this year and I was more than happy to oblige. Check out my post (hint, family, hint), as well as some of the other great bloggers, like Cambria Bold of Apartment […]
Join us for our special Holiday Giveaway episode of Make: Live on Wednesday, December 14th 2011 at 9pm ET / 6pm PT / 2am GMT at https://makezine.com/live
I am usually immune to the lure of pure luxury items, and at $2400 a set, there’s no question that these Army Men cast in solid silver by L.A.artist Josh Warner are pure, unadulterated bling. Still: Wow. Mr. Warner claims the figures are “all true to the original Vietnam era Louis Marx & Co. toys,” with the notable exception, of course, that their faces have been replaced with skulls.
Last Wednesday we announced Jessica Strand’s Holiday Crafting & Baking with Kids book Giveaway, and we wanted to remind you that the deadline for this is this Wednesday, December 15, at 2:00pm (PST) / 5:00pm (EST).
Over the weekend, NPR’s Jon Kalish, who’s also a MAKE special correspondent, did a piece on how libraries are starting to outfit themselves with hacker/makerspaces. This is something we’ve talked about here at MAKE for awhile and it was the subject of one of Phillip Torrone’s Soapbox columns. It’s great to see the idea starting to acquire some serious legs. It has always seemed like a natural to us.
HP will make the underlying code of webOS available under an open source license. Developers, partners, HP engineers and other hardware manufacturers can deliver ongoing enhancements and new versions into the marketplace.
I’m chilly all the time, so I might I need to pop a pair of these Hot Dog! Hand Warmers from More Style than Cash into my coat pockets every day from October until right around May. They’d make perfect last-minute holiday gifts too: they’re easy to make, they’re filled with rice instead of chemicals, […]
