Recipe: Fresh Shell Bean and Sage Spread
Apartment Therapy: The Kitchn shares a great-sounding recipe for Fresh Shell Bean and Sage Spread, perfect for serving with toasted bread. Pick up the ingredients at your local Farmers Market this weekend!
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Portland Zine Symposium
The Portland zine community will be out in full force this weekend for the 8th Annual PDX Zine Symposium. There will be workshops (covering topics like Zines 101 and Simple Bookbinding), panel discussions, and raffles–and the whole thing is free! Portland Zine Symposium August 23 & 24th (Sat: 10am-5pm, Sun: 10am-4pm) @ Portland State University […]
Wind generator challenge @ MAKE:NYC
Last night’s MAKE:NYC meeting was much fun – teams competed to create the most efficient wind power generator. The work produced was impressive, especially when you consider the tough heat/humidity and limited time constraints! – MAKE:NYC meeting 8 on Flickr
LEGO sport city
The Beijing Olympics inspired the Hong Kong LEGO Users Group to build the incredibly detailed LEGO Sport City – here’s the flickr set. They used 300,000 bricks and 4,500 mini-figures! Via Metafilter
Austin Event: Hot Sauce Festival
This Sunday, 2 of my favorite things come together: with DIY and hot sauce combined, I turn into Homer Simpson from that episode when he eats a hot pepper. In addition to tasting home brewed hot sauce, there’s also great music throughout the day. You can enter your own sauce the morning of competition, and […]
Homemade boat race in Providence, RI
It’s not to late to enter this year’s Fools’ Rules Regatta in Providence, or just come and watch! Joe Wilkicki writes in: Description: The Jamestown Fools’ Rules Regatta has been running for more than 20 years in Jamestown, Rhode Island. Contestants have 2 hours to construct a boat on the beach using any materials they […]
Lightwave exhibit open call
Beth Gormley writes in: Calling all techno-artists, playful scientists, renegade engineers, architects, sculptors, lighting designers, fashion designers, guerrilla projectionists and inventors! LIGHTWAVE returns to the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin following the unprecedented success and international acclaim received in its phenomenal inaugural show. Bigger, better and raising the bar, LIGHTWAVE 2009 promises to mesmerize […]