Cat from Cut Out + Keep says, “You might not be able to afford a bag, but everyone can enjoy a Chanel cake. My mum loves Chanel bags, so I made her this cake for her birthday.” Thanks Lil! Link. From the pages of CRAFT magazine: Subscribers can click on the link to read it […]
Check out the first beta issue of the new online magazine LAB (you can also get a hard copy via Lulu.com). From the site, “Here it is: the first (beta) issue of LAB: testing the water. What’s it about? Good question. Let’s see. It’s chock-full of candid interviews with creative folks with plenty of savoir-faire– […]
Yahoo! just launched Pipes, which lets you combine data from the Web in some very interesting ways. It reminds me of Apple’s Automator and Quartz Composer. Brady Forrest takes a pipe apart in Yahoo! Pipes: Deconstructing a Pipe: In my previous post Yahoo! Pipes: The Modules For Building Pipes I explained the tools available for […]
Inspired by our post about personalizing your Flickr replies, the ever-resourceful and reader-focused Gina Trapani just whipped up her own code to add similar functionality to Lifehacker comments. Her Lifehacker Reply with Commenter Name Greasemonkey script adds a “[reply by name]” link to each comment on Lifehacker.com and inserts the commenter’s name (prepended with an […]
Sometimes you want to save the videos that you watch on Youtube or Google Video. Perhaps you want to watch them later. Maybe you are hoping to transcode a video for playback on a mobile device. Or maybe you want to edit a clip into a podcast you are making. Problem is, you can only […]
Jolene pointed us to this BBC news story of the Liverpool Women’s Hospital and how knitted breasts are being used. The knitted breats are a cheaper alternative to show new mothers how to breast feed and how to express milk, as well as teaching tools by community midwife teams. From the site, “[Kate Mc Fadden, […]
Jake writes in with a how-to plate and etch Altoids tins… “Using a car battery, blue vitriol solution (an archaic name for copper sulfate) and printed circuit board making techniques, I etched and copper plated some Altoids containers this past weekend.” Copper plating and etching Altoids tins- Link.
