Mykea Offers Custom Skins to Personalize Your IKEA Furniture [Stuff We Like] As great as the cheap and modular furniture from IKEA is, it’s a bit lacking in personality. Mykea offers custom skins that personalize your bland IKEA furniture to spice up your office and living space. More » Digest powered by RSS Digest
Site to Phone Shares Links Between Any Browser and Your Smartphone [Webapps] Shared by jftesser For Daniel. Maybe better than qr codes? Most browsers and smartphones: Google’s own Chrome to Phone is great for sending links to your phone, but is restricted to Chrome and Android. Free webapp Site to Phone works with any browser, […]
December 23, 2010
Your Guide to the Darkest Day in 372 Years [Astronomy] Late Monday night—well, actually, early Tuesday morning—the moon will move into the earth’s shadow, causing a lunar eclipse visible to anyone in North America. Even better, it’s happening on the Winter Solstice, for the first time since 1638. Now, obviously, you already have your Winter […]
December 21, 2010
#260; In which a Plan ends poorly Enjoy this Classic Wondermark that originally ran on December 26, 2006! Digest powered by RSS Digest
December 18, 2010
No Gay Sex at the World Cup [Sports] Shared by jftesser 🙁 The 2022 World Cup is being held in Qatar, a country where being gay is illegal. But Sepp Blatter, the president of soccer’s world governing body, has a simple solution for gay soccer fans: Don’t have gay sex! Yes, that is what Sepp […]
December 16, 2010
Homemade Knitting Machine Youtube user correx37 made this homemade knitting machine using old printer parts, two servos and a Picaxe-18x microcontroller. I love the simplicity and re-use of components. That slow, deliberate action could easily lull me in to a deep sleep… and when I woke up, I’d have a freshly-made scarf! See also: Machine-Knitted […]
December 13, 2010
New York Sketches My poor little comic, it’s on the sidewalk somewhere and I don’t have the heart to draw it again. It was about WWII movies, perhaps in the future, I will return to it. I moved to New York in September and am really enjoying it. I’d like to take the opportunity to […]
December 12, 2010
MIT announces major $100 million expansion plan Shared by jftesser Noooooo Thailand Cafe must never die! Where will I get terrible pad thai with extra peanut sauce?!?! The Tech reports MIT will redevelop 298-334 Mass. Ave. as part of its $100 million expansion that will include the demolition of Thailand Cafe, All Asia, J.N. Philips […]
December 11, 2010
Muscle wire plants come to life when you breathe on them Fraser Ross made these neat muscle wire plant sculptures, that come to life when you breathe on them. [via Dude Craft] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this! EXTW […]
December 10, 2010
Slip Your iPhone or iPad Into an Official Pantone Case [Cases] If anyone can be considered an authority on something as essential and accessible as color, it’s Pantone. So be grateful that they’ll share their imprimatur with you with these official cases for iPhones and iPads. The Pantone Universe collection, a collaboration with the Monoco-based […]
December 7, 2010
Arsenic-Based Life The First Interview With the Arsenic Aliens by Edith Zimmerman HP: OMG tell me about yourself! AA: Welllllll, I've been living in Mono Lake forever basically. HP: Wait like literally forever? AA: Hahaha, ummm. HP: [Screaming] AA: Hahahaha, LOLOLOL. HP: You were joking? AA: No, I was for real. We have actually been […]
December 3, 2010
Dolly the Sheep Is Alive, Alive, Alive, Alive! [Clones] Shared by jftesser for tom In 1996, Dolly the sheep made headlines for being the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. She was put down in 2002. But as it turns out, Dolly’s still alive today. A scientist secretly made four copies years ago. Sometime […]