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Crowdfunding Gets Traction in DC

Crowdfunding Gets Traction in DC

Paul Spinrad, MAKE’s Executive Editor, has a brief piece on O’Reilly Radar today about movement in DC on a crowdfunding exemption. Here’s an excerpt: In May, I wrote here about efforts I’ve been involved with advocating a “crowdfunding exemption.” As part of the American Jobs Act introduced by President Obama last night, the White House […]

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A Box Made From A Dried Orange Peel

A Box Made From A Dried Orange Peel

Here’s a link to the fantastic British brainy-toys site Grand Illusions that I’ve been hoarding for awhile, hoping to someday reproduce the process and post it as a tutorial. I have tried sun-drying several of the largest orange peels I can find on suitable forms, and have made one functional round box that is quite small and ugly compared to these.

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Crowdsourcing airport security wait times

Crowdsourcing airport security wait times

Josh Sulkin, of FlyOnTime.us, has created this interesting little Twitter crowdsourcing experiment: I’d like to announce some major changes to the Apps For America 2 entry FlyOnTime.us, as well as ask for your help in a “crowdsourcing” experiment I’m conducting. First the experiment…I originally wanted to incorporate the data from the TSA’s airport security line […]

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