Home Depot giving away 1m compact fluorescent light bulbs today!
Home Depot is giving away 1 million n:Vision compact fluorescent light bulbs to any one who visits their stores today – Link.
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Get your Earth day on
Today is Earth day, take a tour of things going on… Doing something neat? Post up in the comments. Earthday Network Homepage – Link. Earth day US gov portal – Link. Earth day for kids – Link. Earth day (wikipedia) – Link. Earth day org – Link.
Simple Origami Paper Light Box
DIY Photography has a cheap solution on how to make a photography light box that utilizes simple origami paper folding and large pieces of paper. The photo of the object looks great. Link.
The week In tools
Chuck has the latest from “The Week in Tools”! This week we found a collapsible barrel that’s perfect for hauling grass clippings — small holes keep you from carrying around unnecessary water weight by draining it out the bottom — and came across a great way to ditch yet another pollution-spewing gas-powered lawn tool: a […]
Earth Day: REMINDER: Bay Area electronics recycling event April 22nd
Make Magazine and Maker Faire are proud to be involved with ACCRC (Alameda County Computer Resource Center — accrc.org), which is hosting an electronics recycling event on Earth Day, this Sunday April 22nd from 10 am to 6pm. Drop off any and all household electronics. In addition for this event we’re looking for old and […]
tranzducer – April 27th Brooklyn, NY
Eric writes in with the latest tranzducer coming up next week – The aural bacchanalia that is TRANZDUCER @ LEMURplex is looking quite special this month. For TRANZDUCER.004, we’ve got international representation straight outta Poland, a few surprises in store, and as always: interactive art from LEMUR! Come down to LEMURplex on April 27th to […]
Bypassing Online Censorship
We’ve written before about using services like Google’s translation software to bypass web filters and access censored/restricted content online, but this really only scratches the surface of the various technologies that can be used to bypass online censorship systems. Reporters Without Borders put together a nice article on the subject, which discusses both the merits […]