Still making…
Neat article about stills- For those with a taste for something a little more traditional, we would point you to this site, which offers handcrafted copper stills of the sort traditionally favored by Ozark mountain moonshiners. For hard-core hobbiests, you could even build your own stills: instructions can be found online, some sophisticated, some wildly inventive, and some probably suicidal. There is a long tradition of making stills out of anything at hand — during the Second World War soldiers used to make stills out of salvaged parts and automobile radiators — but caution must be exercised.[via] Link.
When Nokia announced their music player capable phones they neglected to mention the lack of support for external headphones. Since the release of the 6230 and its related family with mp3/aac playback support, many disgruntled users have made their own home-brew cables to plug in headphones. Today we will show one such mod for the Nokia HDS-3 cable. This cable ships with the 6230 and other Nokia phones capable of stereo playback.

MAKE pal Hans writes “I have always wanted to build my own weather computer but never had the time my own first plans were based on an Intel 8085. My friends use to joke that I was going to build the Hans 2000 Weather Computer. The Tim’s page is about the best I have found for building a Weather Computer”.

…free plug-in for Microsoft Word that works with Blogger. We call it Blogger for Word. Catchy? Maybe. Useful? You bet. With this little number, you can work in Word like you normally do and then save your document as a post to your Blogger blog. Once you install the plug-in and restart Word, some buttons will appear. These buttons allow you to publish, edit, and save as draft from within Word.
It’s never too early to start planning for Halloween – Fasten a large grotesque head to the end of a stick four or five feet long; around the neck gather a skirt of black material, long enough to reach the ground when the end of the stick is extended at arm’s length above the head of the operator inside... We also have a great Halloween project in MAKE volume 03.