The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Vernor Vinge’s article on Nature.com about virtual worlds – “2020 Computing: The creativity machine. What will emerge from using the Internet as a research tool? The answer, Vernor Vinge argues, will be limited only by our imaginations.” – Link. Pictured here, my avatar at a five-room simulated heart clinic – SLurl.
Public citizen on a guide Maker who made his own World of Warcraft guide – “The Ultimate World of Warcraft Leveling & Gold Guide”, and then Blizzard had it removed and threatened to sue if he continued to sell it – “A Florida resident should be allowed to sell a guide to playing the popular […]
Sal writes – “…I had some big plans in store for the Mini-ITX box. The plans were, roughly, to install a hard drive, move to a more powerful Linux distribution, and add PVR capabilites to the system. Because the computer was already situated in my living room, making it into a personal video recorder was […]
Amazing gallery of old TVs, back when they were furniture and you fixed them yourself – [via] – Link.
Ben Heck is a golden god – here is his latest Atari 2600 portable – [via] – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member command-tab seems to have scored a LOTTO / lottery machine, and dutifully did what any Maker would, install DOOM on it – the winning numbers are: I D D Q D – Link.
At the GDC Nintendo gave out advanced copies of “Brain Age” for the Nintendo DS – I love this “game” – everyone here has been playing it non-stop – “Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS is a fun, rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy, as it helps players flex their […]
