Crochet Chess Set
Softies Central points us to this soft crocheted chess set by Etsy seller CozyColeman. She’s offering the pattern as well as the actual crocheted set itself.
Month: July 2008
HOW TO – Knit a 4th of July Cap
Petula points us to wards Mary Jane, Midge & Mink’s pattern for making this knitted 4th of July cap–it reminds me of Captain America’s shield!
Tyrant alarm clock
Alice Wang’s tyrant makes waking up a little more important… via Engadget. This alarm clock steals your mobile phone and randomly shuffles through your contact list and calls someone every three minutes after the desired wake up time. This looks like a concept piece, but you could actually build one of these in few ways… […]
How To: Photograph Fireworks
Sebastian Szyszka has a great write-up on how to photograph fireworks. He covers the delicate balance of ISO and aperture settings along with everything else you need to know. In the end, it seems to be fairly easy to do if you use a tripod and a decent camera. Read more about Photographing Fireworks
“Ghost-imaging”
Huh, so here’s a good use for entangled photons.. ghost-imaging via Wired. Investigators funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research are conducting research under the name of “ghost-imaging,” where a visual image of an object is created by means of light that has never interacted with the object. The new technology may result […]
Google Maps of programming languages
This is fun — a Google Map of where specific programming languages came from. You can also zip around Google Earth to see them too.
Grocery card cable organizer
Cute and simple grocery card cable organizer via Lifehacker. More: Ideas for crazy messy wire-wrangling.