Electric musical saw
Make pal Mad Maxine sent me this video of musician T.J. Hill playing his electric musical saw – a 26″ Stanley hand saw with a contact mic, run through his guitar effects and amped to 11, I believe.
Kids & Family
Printable Pencil Toppers
Mollie of Wild Olive has some cute printable pencil toppers available for download as a PDF. Get Dull Pencil (shown above) and nd four phrase pencils, “This is Dull” (perfect for using in meetings), “Stay Sharp”, “Never #2”, and “I’m a Pen”. Cute for kids as they get back into those books!
Spore and science
Science writer (and science tattoo gallery curator) Carl Zimmer recently wrote an article for The New York Times about the science of Spore. He’s also linked to this video from Seed of a conversation between astrobiologist Jill Tarter and Spore creator Will Wright. Here’s a print version of the conversation.
Simpsons intro in LEGO
Urmas Salu (a teenager!) won all of $40 for this re-enactment of The Simpsons opening sequence in LEGO. Watching it makes me ridiculously happy. via Boing Boing
Self-Connecting Paper Chains
World Preschool Mom has a great project for younger kids with her self-connecting paper chains tutorial that require no staples or glue. [ via Folding Trees ]
Felt Sushi Toys
Julie K in Taiwan made these felt sushi toys with her daughter from a kit sold in Taiwan. The results are really great and, as Julie K points out, you could try to make your own version without buying a kit. Related Felt Sushi
Learning Graphically – Comics About Science
I was a comic book fan way before I was a mom. I’ve always liked exposing my kids at an early age to simple forms of complex ideas; I think it makes concepts familiar, letting kids get comfortable with sometimes difficult topics before they’re presented with the adult, “serious” versions – comics are the perfect […]
