Dave Malki, who does the awesome Victorian-era webcomic Wondermark, has created a hysterical steampunky genre-fiction generator. Liam Cooke created an automated version of the chart. Here’s the story synopsis I got: The Psychopunks In a metaphorical Outer Rim world, a young milquetoast office drone stumbles across a time-traveling soldier which spurs him into conflict with […]
It’s Rachel’s birthday! Happy Happy Joy Joy! In that spirit, here’s are three stunning garlands that if I would love to use to decorate her house!
I love bright colors, and have recently been very inspired by the trends in variegated yarns. This combo of hot pink, lime green, orange and charcoal grey really makes me happy. The yarn is from my local shop, Castaways, and the swatch was knit by Madeline, age 8.
And you thought there were a lot of questionable costumes at Comi-Con. [Warning: scantily clad women on the linked page] The Worst Homemade Star Wars Costumes [Thanks, Katie W!]
Dave and Dave from Hack Junk decided, sort of at the last minute, to enter the recent Seattle Power Tool Race and Derby. The video documents their build and their two race attempts. Hack Junk
Via this month’s EMS Lab’s Linkdump come these pics of sneakers with “bumper stickers” on them. When we were brainstorming stickers for The Maker’s Notebook, somebody came up with idea of a set of robot bumper stickers (“Resistance is Futile (if > 1-ohm),” “My other bot is a Big Dog,” etc). These reminded me of […]
Today, on EMS Labs, they run through some fun and even useful things you can do with magnets. And who doesn’t love magnets? Make almost anything (ferromagnetic) into a building set With magnets as connectors, you can build tins into anything you like. (Just be sure to get Bawls Mints, not Bawls Buzz). Extract batteries […]
