By Katie Goodman I love loaded baked potatoes, but they aren’t exactly waistline friendly. Since many of us have renewed our efforts to eat healthier with the start of the new year, I thought a new loaded baked potato recipe was in order. Instead of featuring butter, sour cream, cheese, and bacon … basically, fat, […]
Last year, SparkFun held a free day where they gave away $100,000 in merch to anyone who could refresh their browser fast enough. This time they’re upping the ante with $150K in swag: On January 13th, 2011, Boulder-based SparkFun Electronics will give away $150,000 worth of products in the second annual iteration of the aptly-named […]
Leopard prints are making waves in fashion and home decor these days and Jeromina of paperplateandplane found an old school way to make them herself – potato stamps! Check out her tutorial on how to make the leopard potato stamps and then make these stylish leopard decor orbs for your home.
Dan Reetz hates it when manufacturers make up a proprietary connector when there are viable standard alternatives, so he gave the Casio EX-FH100 shutter release/video/USB cable what it had coming: a good hack. The process is abstracted enough to take this technique to another situation, and his tutorial is funny, too (warning, some adult language).
Crafty Chica Kathy Cano-Murillo has a quick tip for sharpening your dressmaker’s chalk. Handy, I hadn’t thought of that!
And When I’m a Man is an unassembled, life-size, 12-piece plastic model kit version of its creator, artist Wayne Chisnall. [via Geekosystem]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes: It’s lemon season again, and that means more marmalade! Last year we showed how incredibly easy it is to make a simple marmalade. That kind was more of the bitter, opaque variety–which might be your favorite–but here’s how to take that to the next step and make a light and […]
