Tyler over at Oddstrument Collection is running a garden instrument contest this summer. Send in your garden musical instruments. Things like wind chimes, outdoor gongs, bells, fountains, musical sculptures, etc. Think solar, wind, water powered and beyond. Let us know if you enter!
I’m a big fan of guerilla gardening – neglected or abandoned urban spaces can be pretty bleak, it’s neat when people take the time to brighten things up. Heavy Petal Gardening has an easy recipe for Seed bombs – make sure you use seeds that are native to your area. (I especially like the way […]
Apartment Therapy ohdeedoh has a recipe on how to make your own butter which is a fun project to do with kids. From the site: …making butter involves lots of shaking which is really fun for kids. It can be tiring so the more kids you have on hand to share shaking duties the better.
Here’s Crabfu’s latest quick and easy project to add a “dragonfly canopy” to a sub-micro helicopter. I-Wei does complain that the added weight was significant and really changed the flight dynamics. Sub Micro Helicopter Dragonfly
It’s ok now for kids to color the walls with Absolute Zero Degrees’ Colour-Me Wallpaper which is also printed on paper from sustained and certified forests. [ via Cookie Mag ]
Type “about:robots” in Firefox 3.0 to see this little Klaatu barada nikto from our benevolent metallic brethren. [Thanks, Jay!]
One of my favorite things about the Internet is discovering people’s collections of things. This time it was erasers. ErasersWorld is a chatty and thorough look at the author’s collection; Joy of Erasers has more of a blog-type tone, including coverages of other people’s erasers and industry news. I also found this BNET article on […]
