Beer bottle Christmas tree
Nothing captures the holiday spirit like staggering numbers of alcoholic beverage bottles. [via Unpluggd]
holidays
Owl pellet dissection kit
We gave owl pellet dissection kits as party favors a couple of years ago – they’re easy to put together and make great holiday gifts! We included a couple of owl pellets, dissecting forceps, a magnifier (we like the Private Eye loupe, you can nest them for higher magnification) and a Riker box to display […]
Chemistry gift guide
Adventures in Ethics and Science blog has a nice mention of the MAKE Chemistry Gift Guide. I was marveling at the Chemistry gift guide at MAKE. It has lots of cool items for your budding chemist/mad scientist of any age looking to equip his or her basement/garage/treehouse laboratory. (It’s pretty hard to get fume-hoods installed […]
Daedalus Books
I like to give books as holiday presents, and I got some great deals through Daedalus Books this year. They carry mostly remaindered books at incredibly low prices, and they have new titles that are pretty heavily discounted. One of the books I got this year was Fun with Computer Electronics. It comes with a […]
Krampus for Christmas
Macula offers a downloadable papercraft of Krampus, a creepy companion of Saint Nicholas.
Holiday Event: Unsilent Night
Dust off your tape player and join/start an Unsilent Night event in your town. From creator Phil Kline: Every year since 1992 I’ve presented UNSILENT NIGHT, an outdoor ambient music piece for an infinite number of boomboxes. It’s like a Christmas caroling party except that we don’t sing, but rather carry the music, each of […]
Holiday Gift Guide: Robots!
In the last few years, the world of hobby robotics has exploded. Driven by the plummeting prices and ubiquity of microcontrollers, servomotors, and other electronic and mechanical components, the growth in personal fabrication technologies, and the success of such commercial toy, hobby, and domestic robots as Lego Mindstorms, the Robosapien line, Japanese mini humanoids, and […]
