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Friday, 16 May 2008
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Current_tv segment on Etsy Labs' monthly Handmade Music nights.
Homemade Music Makers [via]
[Editor's note - The music nights usually with MAKE, but for this one the entire NYC team was out of town at another event, so that's why you didn't see MAKE --- our makers were there though! - it's usually Create Digital Music - ETSY - MAKE handmade music night - pt ]
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 Friday, 16 May 2008 The Cozy Boat finally needed a new skin.
Seagull poop ate holes in the cotton denim skin. Then the seagulls pecked at the holes to see if it had tasty guts. They pecked right through the closed cell foam layer. Now you couldn't use the boat at all without getting a wet butt.
Ray and Chloe volunteer...
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 Friday, 16 May 2008 Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
This little bundle of plain-vanilla familiarity is seemingly the first live picture of Palm's upcoming Treo 800w for CDMA networks, known internally as the Zeppelin -- you know, the obsolete airships that had a tendency to spontaneously combust. Specs on this one are starting to shore up, with Windows Mobile 6.1, ... |
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Discarted sez,
One June 1, photographers throughout Los Angeles will gather at the Hollywood and Highland Metro Station to peacefully protest against the unnecessary treatment they have received from security guards (particularly the white shirts), LAPD, and LASD while photographing in public places, and on the Metro.
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France's Cartonnistes sculpt beautiful, whimsical full-size furniture from old cardboard -- and offer workshops on making your own pieces.
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Sharon's Tiny Buildings blog features many delightful tiny buildings made from card, packaging, and odds and sods. This is my kind of model village.
The third 'chapel' happens to be an attempt to replicate the actual building, in a vineyard, where the reception was held. It is a beautiful old stone farm building, with ... |
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 Friday, 16 May 2008
Instructables user dpearce1 made a solar-powered motorized trike, and an instruction set to go along with it. From the instructable:
The purpose of this project is to build a vehicle that:
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If you're pissed off that BT and other ISPs are using software like Phorm to track your browsing habits, you could try out AntiPhormLite, an app that generates a never-ending string of spyware radar-chaff, running a second b... |
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 Friday, 16 May 2008 Filed under: StorageWe've had a little love affair going on with storage vendor Mtron ever since we saw that "battleship" SSD RAID array, and it looks like the company is after our hearts once again, this time with the Pro 7500 series of SSDs, which ... |
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Friday, 16 May 2008
Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice keeps on hammering away at his plan to bring US-style copyright legislation based on the disastrous Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Canada, without any consultation with the publ... |
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Friday, 16 May 2008 Multiple readers have written to let us know that an experiment at the upcoming Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference will use RFID to track the movements of at least 1,500 registrants for the duration of the conference. Those movements will be t... |
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Friday, 16 May 2008 A team of students in the College of Engineering at Rowan University is working with local inventor Neal Cramer to advance what's described as the first truly new solar thermal system in more than three decades...
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- L’Erbolario produce utilizzando esclusivamente energie rinnovabili, tutti i suoi prodotti sono controllati dall’ICEA (Istituto per la Cert...
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- Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Chicago residents are no strangers to the city's many CCTV cameras by this point -- if anyone knows exactly how long to sto...
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From Current TV: "Brooklyn's Etsy's Lab art collective hosts a monthly event where people come to play and ...
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- Filed under: Laptops
It's been a controversial decision, but it looks like the OLPC XO has completed its transition from revolutionary education proje...
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- We've seen some great moveable entertaining concepts such as the Pedalpub, the Fuya-Jo party van, Red Bull?s nightclub on wheels and the floating beac...
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Friday, 16 May 2008
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Current_tv segment on Etsy Labs' monthly Handmade Music nights.
Homemade Music Makers [via]
[Editor's note - The music nights usually with MAKE, but for this one the entire NYC team was out of...
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Friday, 16 May 2008
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The Cozy Boat finally needed a new skin.
Seagull poop ate holes in the cotton denim skin. Then the seagulls pecked at the holes to see if it had tasty guts. They pecked right through the closed cell foam layer. Now you couldn't use the boat at all without getting a wet butt.
Ray and Chloe volunteer...
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Friday, 16 May 2008
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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
This little bundle of plain-vanilla familiarity is seemingly the first live picture of Palm's upcoming Treo 800w for CDMA networks, known internally as the Zeppelin -- you know, the obsolete airships that had a tendency to spontaneously combust. Specs on this one a...
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Friday, 16 May 2008
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Discarted sez,
One June 1, photographers throughout Los Angeles will gather at the Hollywood and Highland Metro Station to peacefully protest against the unnecessary treatment they have received from security guards (particularly the white shirts), LAPD, and LASD while ...
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Google will begin to offer a web based storage system in the coming months - no word on official release date just yet. Dubbed “My Stuff” - at least that’s the internal name - will be free and then cost the user a few green backs (no word on price) if they’d like additio...
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If you’ve been using Google Maps to get around town, you no doubt know how frustrating it is to punch in the cross street to begin your directions. Starting today, or in the last few days, those using select devices (Blackberrys, Motorolas, etc, but NOT the iPhone) will be able to fin...
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The V-Moda Vibe Duo is the essential accessory for any discerning iPhone user. Kinda sounds like “Men’s Warehouse” ad, huh? The packaged iPhone headphones are junk, and like many I?ve felt the scorn of the white buds while running, riding or just about doing anything.
Desi...
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Per tutti coloro che utilizzano Google Reader come feed aggregator voglio segnalare una nuova applicazione sviluppata con la piattaforma Adobe Air, sto parlando di ReadAir. Il programma è disponibile per tutti i sistemi operativi e devo dire che l’interfaccia grafica in stile Mac OS X è davvero molto accattivante e ben fatta.
Per utilizzare questo programmino dovremo sempli...
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Premettendo che l?argomento possa piacere o no, oggi torniamo a parlare di Twitter e Web 2.0 allo stesso tempo. In che modo?
Ebbene, attraverso Twitterlocal Meets Google Maps, sarà possibile individuare tramite una semplice mappa del mondo tratta da Google Maps, le persone che twittano in un determinato luogo.
Molto semplicemente, senza alcuna difficoltà, saprete il twitting altru...
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Uno dei principali problemi che affligge un Blogger alle prime armi è sicuramente il traffico generato dal proprio Blog. Sappiamo tutti che più alto è il traffico generato dal sito, più sono le visite. Sicuramente vedere quel numero delle visite, un giorno salire e l’altro scendere non è sicuramente una bella cosa, sopratutto per chi dedica molto tempo al...
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Apro+im points out a NYTimes report which states that Microsoft and the OLPC project have officially agreed to put Windows XP on the XO laptop. While Microsoft has been working toward this for some time, analysts began to think a deal was more likely after Walter Bender resigned from the project and was replaced by Charles Kane. From the Times: "Windows will add a bit to the price of the machines,...
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GameSpot is reporting that details for Guitar Hero 4 have been released. The biggest news seems to be that the new release will be adding drums and vocals a la Rock Band. The new drums are to offer three pressure-sensitive pads (which can tell if you are just tapping or really wailing), two elevated cymbals, and a pedal. "The details in Game Informer also clear up the mystery surrounding the 'inno...
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Anonymous writes "With the releases of Fedora 9, Hardy Heron and OpenSuSE 11 so close together, it's looking more than ever like an evolution to a common interface for major Linux distributions. Here's a compilation of screen shots and descriptions that make it appear to be the case. Would this be a good thing or a bad thing?" There are plenty of other options out there, of course, even considerin...
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L’Erbolario produce utilizzando esclusivamente energie rinnovabili, tutti i suoi prodotti sono controllati dall’ICEA (Istituto per la Certificazione Etica Ambientale) e si e’ dotato di un sistema di gestione ambientale certificato ISO 14001. L’Erbolario, inoltre, sostiene la fondazione Slow Food per la biodiversita e il FAI (Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano).
Nonostante...
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Gli Stati Uniti hanno inserito l’orso polare tra le specie protette. Secondo alcuni studiosi, la popolazione di orsi che oggi contra circa 25.000 esemplari, potrebbe ridursi e scomparire entro il 2050.
Bicchiere mezzo pieno o mezzo vuoto? Il problema principale è l’habitat degli orsi stessi, ma la nota dolente è che nulla verrà fatto su questo fronte. L’Arti...
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Tempi duri per i dromedari selvatici che vivono nei deserti dell?Australia. In un report presentato recentemente dalla Commissione parlamentare sulle specie invasive, si è evidenziata la difficoltà di controllare il loro numero, che sfiora ormai il milione di esemplari, e la necessità di intraprendere azioni drastiche per riportare sotto controllo la situazione.
I motivi di p...
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