If you use Firefox with Greasemonkey, there are a lot of really nice scripts available for tweaking the iGoogle interface. You can resize columns, replace the iGoogle logo, or, my personal favorite, add some subtle transparency effects to the search interface so that it blends in with the theme you are using – Link. Related: […]
Garth at Extreme Craft pointed me to his awesome post about Baroness von Carrie Reichardt a london ceramic artist who created the space, The Treatment Room. This memorial wall above is dedicated to Reichardt’s friend Luis Ramirez, an inmate on death row in Texas. Garth writes: The Treatment Rooms (MySpace Link), a house in West […]
Nathan just sent in what the gang from Spark Fun is bringing to Maker Faire, he writes – What is this thing? It’s the game of Tetris but played on a device that is composed of 240 buttons. So if you want to move the Tetris block right/left, you simply touch a button left or […]
There’s a new “Listen” link in the O’Reilly Network weblogs. It speaks the contents of an article, and sounds pretty nice. Dave Battino went on a search for some rhythmic posts, and made a fun remix out of it: O’Reilly recently snuck a wacky speech synthesizer into our blogs: Clicking the “listen” link above will […]
If you didn’t order your tickets for Maker Faire to get the pre May 10th discount, that’s ok – through May 18th you can still purchase Maker Faire tickets at the normal price in our online store and pick them up at Will Call at the faire, repeat, you will not get your tickets physically […]
Here’s a nice stool you can make from coat hangers – Link.
If you’re in NYC on the 12th, Pratt and LEMURplex have a show that looks really good — *AOE: Behavioral Technologies* *********************************** *OPENING MAY 12th, 7-9PM* *LEMURplex* 461 3rd Avenue Brooklyn (bet’n 9th and 10th St.) The Pratt Institute’s class “The Art of Electronics,” in coordination with Brooklyn art and technology center LEMURplex, presents AOE: […]
