How-To: Faux Calligraphy Hand-Lettering
Fancy up your hand-lettering with no additional skills required! Check out these helpful tips for bringing the look and weight of calligraphy to your own handwriting.
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NaNoWriMo Progress Meter
Steve Hoefer of Grathop Labs built this Arduino-controlled novel-writing progress meter.
Six and a Half Stitches’ Silk Draped Dress
I love blogs where the author not only loves to craft, but loves to write. I want great projects, but they need well-crafted text and stunning photography. Enter SixAndAHalfStitches. This post about how she created a silk dress isn’t just a post, it’s a beautiful vignette about the author’s creative process. Oh, and btw, I’d […]
“Fiction science” theory of Superman’s powers
Back in 2005, I wrote a fictional scientific paper (.pdf) postulating that zombiism is in fact caused by a prion, rather than a virus, as is commonly hypothesized. I also wrote a short essay about the idea of “fiction science” at the time. Now Ben Tippet, at the behest of Dinosaur Comics’ Ryan North, has written a similarly fictional scientific paper (.pdf) presenting “A Unified Theory of Superman’s Powers” from a physicist’s perspective. I’d be interested in hearing of other examples of people co-opting the serious literary forms of science for fictional purposes. If you know of one, please drop me a comment. [via Neatorama]
LED traffic signal take-a-part
Lenore @ Evil Mad Scientist Labs procures an LED traffic light assembly! Which means we get a very detailed peek inside – Of course, after we made sure it worked, we promptly took it apart. It is a fabulous object, designed to be used, abused, taken apart, and maybe even fixed, though there is not […]
