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Friday, 16 May 2008
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 ] [Read this article] [Comment o...
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Cozy Boat Episode 2: A New Skin
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... By: TimAnderson ... Read more
Palm Treo 800w caught with its keys showing
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, ...
Photographers stand up for your rights in LA, June 1
Friday, 16 May 2008
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. ...
Whimsical cardboard furniture
Friday, 16 May 2008
France's Cartonnistes sculpt beautiful, whimsical full-size furniture from old cardboard -- and offer workshops on making your own pieces. Link,/a> (via Cribcandy) ... Read more
TIny buildings made from card, packaging and whatnot
Friday, 16 May 2008
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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Solar tricycle
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: -Provides free, 'green' transportation for short dis...
AntiPhormLite confounds BT's spyware by simulating random browsing
Friday, 16 May 2008
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...
Mtron says its Pro 7500 is the fastest SSD around
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 ...
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...
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...
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... Tags: research watch, SolarRelated A...


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Friday, 16 May 2008
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...
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...
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 a...
Friday, 16 May 2008
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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