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 […]
Cory Doctorow at BB writes: Crafters are up in arms over a seemingly disastrous unintended consequence of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), which will require lab certification that lead and phthalates are not present in toys or clothes — sounds good, but crafters warn that this means that “a toymaker… who makes wooden […]
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 […]
Craft reader Kate sent in this cute and easy card holder stamping project that would be easy for kids to do for gifts.
Finally, some paper snowflake principles to live by! Instructables user CYNICALifornia shows how to make really gorgeous snowflakes look really easy. Maybe I’ll make some to for my snowless Arizona windows. When I was a kid I always wanted to know the “rules” for making successful paper snowflake designs. Share this tutorial with children you […]
Think Anatomy points us to Anatomy Arcade, an anatomy learning site with free flash games, including Poke-A-Muscle, Whack-A-Bone, and a bunch of cool jigsaw puzzles.
If you’re not a traditionalist, but you long for the scent of holiday gingerbread filling your house, try these T-Rex cookies from Tissuepapers.
