It’s a three day weekend and if you haven’t had a chance to watch the weekend projects podcast, now is the time. You can watch the video and read the pdf and learn about brain waves and how to make a brain machine! This is what it looks like in itunes. If you subscribe in […]
The thing about Firefox under Linux is that its form widgets look a little nasty. Thankfully, Osmo Salomaa created some nice replacement widgets that really clean up the interface, and fatsheep over at ubuntu forums put together a quick script for installing/uninstalling the patch. It’s a big improvement, unless you’re into the whole super-aliased, shadow-casting […]
Flickr user entros has posted a bunch of 3d photos from the 2007 Bay Area Maker Faire. Find yourself a pair of red/cyan glasses and check ’em out – Link [entros’ anaglyph sets]
LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots presents Robosonic Eclectic: Live Music by Robots and Humans May 31 – June 2nd Performing Live: They Might Be Giants: Robots + John and John JG Thirlwell (Foetus): Robots + string quartet Morton Subotnick: Robots + live percussion George Lewis: Robots + virtuoso jazz trombone Plus Solo Robot […]
Gapminder is an interactive utility for examining world statistics. It’s extremely cool if you’re curious about things like the relationship between income and life expectancy or carbon emissions and internet use. There is a scrubber for adjusting the date, so you can see how the data points have changed over time. I wonder if internet […]
The first ever Ignite! Boston is going to be a great night of makers, geeks, techies, and innovators hanging out at Tommy Doyle’s in Cambridge. To kick-off our Ignite Boston evening, we’re having a MAKE competition–Building Bridges–from 6:20 to 7pm. Come with a set of friends and blueprints, or meet some people at the bar […]
Every morning Robert Scoble starts his day by sifting through 622 RSS feeds. In this interview, he describes the tools and tricks that enable him to accomplish the immense task of personally aggregating the live web. Here are a few spoiler tips: Use Google Reader (keyboard commands make browsing faster) Use “all items view” to […]
