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David writes – “Spamgraffiti is a series of online installations created from spam. Each environment is created by spooling through one email account and visually articulating the spam on a series of layers. Newer spam appears above and slowly filters out older spam below. As the rate of spam increases over time per account, the […]
Whipup has posted some of its recent favorite posts and there are a bevy of new projects and ideas that will cure the dreary winter doldrums. I love these suncatchers and the scrappy owls with matching cards. Thanks Kath! We are loving the site! Link.
Here’s a PC case mod made from an old NES! Lots of details if you want to build your own, from the Maker John – “I began the project by dismantling my NES. I removed all the internal components and, after a moment of silent reflection, eighty-sixed all but the plastic shell, power buttons, and […]
Wired has a short how to on getting your purchased DVDs on to your iPod video (PCs only) [via] Link. Pictured here, iPod video with movies from purchased DVDs – good to go. Related: Put your DVDs on your iPod video (Mac) – Link. Tons of iPod articles, projects and how tos – Link.
Sony has more information and pricing for their E-ink reader on SonyStyle – it’s going to cost $349 and “should” ship spring of 2006. [via] Link & info sheet. If you want to read ebooks now on a Sony reader, you can pick up the discontinued Japanese version (called the Librie), change the firmware and […]
Here’s another old Maker book – “The Boy Mechanic” published by Popular Mechanics, last printed in 1952. Offered thru Project Gutenberg, 700 Things for Boys to Do. First published in 1913, the PDF version is richly illustrated. You can download it from project Gutenberg here – Thanks Justin! Previous Maker-books here.
If you hang out in the user created virtual world Second Life one of the popular things to do is use animations for dancing, interaction, avatar personality and using for filming (also called Machinima) – animations are usually created with Poser, but now there’s a new free way to create the animation files (.BVH) . […]
