Our resident Windows hacker, Preston Gralla, has another great article up at Computerworld, this time about maintaining your online privacy in the face of increased snooping from the government, web sites, and private businesses (an expanded update to a hack of the same name that originally appeared in Windows XP Hacks, 2E Call for Hacks: […]
Mamaqilla is creating a needle felted goat, using raw fleece from a spotted Jacob sheep and a SINGLE felting needle! Check out her work in progress. It’s simply beautiful. Link.
As seen today on Wired’s blog and here on Subversive Cross Stitch, it’s a bit curious as to why artist Laura Splan decided to create a knit scarf out of what would normally be an intravenous blood device. From the site, “The implied narrative is a paradoxical one in which the device keeps the user […]
DIY Maven on Curbly tries her hand at creating paper bead art which is perfect to create unique cards for friends. She says, “When we were kids, my sister Joyce and I rolled paper beads; little did we know we were doing something girls a hundred years earlier had done. Although Joyce and I made […]
Just in time for Easter Cindy of Skip to My Lou has a tutorial on how to make colorful egg shaped chalk that’s perfect for kids. Link.
Betz White’s got Easter on her mind with these suuuper lux cashmere bunnies! Of course they are recycled cashmere sweater scraps and what a perfect way to celebrate Easter with this great recycle project. One tip from Betz, “I find second hand cashmere sweaters at Goodwill. Here’s a tip: If you have trouble finding them […]
In the latest installment of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, Alexander Rose shows how to use Google Earth to provide cost-effective GPS mapping in real time: I have been doing a lot of exploring and surveying in the desert recently, and have been trying to find the right GPS mapping solution. The solution I found incorporated […]
