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- How to build an RC mobile Dalek-o-Lantern
- From Evil Mad Scientist via BoingBoing: Building a Robotic Dalek Pumpkin. Yes, the Cylon-o-Lantern and the Steampumpkin were cool, but neither one of those All Hallows hacks could actually chase down trick or treaters incessantly begging for candy on your front stoop. This How-To lists the parts...
- Tags: Mobile, BoingBoing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- How to make functional Wolverine claws
- From Make via BoingBoing: This guy worked out how to scratch-build (punny!) functionally retractable Wolverine costume claws. Warning, you will need a bandsaw and some skill with aluminum, but anybody who has done any fair amount of auto body repair should be able to whip up a SNIKT-o-riffic...
- Tags: BoingBoing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
- Two Great Interviews - Stross and Hodgeman
- BoingBoing has led me to two great interviews with two of my own personal icons: John Hodgeman The PC from the latest Apple ads who makes his living with fake trivia and appearances on The Daily Show. Brief and snark-a-licious.Charles Stross, my all-time favoritest science fiction writer (I own and...
- Tags: BoingBoing, Interview, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-09-25
- Two FireFox extensions to block search engine snooping
- From BoingBoing a few days ago:"TrackMeNot: Firefox extension randomizes your search history - Stephen sez, 'TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN. It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of indistinguishable...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Search Engine, BoingBoing, TrackMeNot, Web Browsers, Internet, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
- Law & Order: Special Valentines Unit
- From BoingBoing: Law & Order Valentines Brandon Bird has created an hilarious set of 10 Law & Order-themed Valentines, and he'll sell 'em to you. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: BoingBoing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-01-31
Additional Resources
- Sci-fi futurist satire of Middle East media politics
- What if the CEO of Hooters became VP, and tried to civilize the Middle East by importing U.S. consumer culture to the Arabian States? Thanks to BoingBoing, we have the uproariously funny answer! by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Middle East, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-05-15
- Super Mario wedding cake
- BoingBoing helped me find this awesome Flickr pic of a Super Mario-themed wedding cake: by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Cake, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-09-18
- Keyboards: They're not just for breakfast anymore
- Artist Chris Dimino has tweaked a waffle iron to produce deliciously edible breakfast keyboards. No actual key letters are imprinted, so these are equally Dvorak or QWERTY. Now all we need is mouse-shaped pats of butter, and some syrup disguised as canned air. Found via BoingBoing. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Keyboard, Artist Chris Dimino, Keyboards, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- How to make a Star Trek on/off switch
- Found via BoingBoing: This great HOWTO illustrates the process of homebrewing your own Star Trek: The Next Generation On/Off switch. I'm thinking it would be a great controller for a garbage disposal -- tell your kids that it's a "transporter" and...
- Tags: Star Trek, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-09-27
- Video: NASA trailer for Apollo 2.0
- NASA has concocted a CGI video trailer for Project Constellation, its Apollo-inspired space shuttle successor that will ostensibly take us back to the moon. It's got some nice Hollywood production values, complete with action-style tracking shots and Hans Zimmer-esque musical score. Really makes you want to suit up for some...
- Tags: NASA, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" - The rap video
- In order to apologize for the MS-DOS 5 upgrade rap I foisted upon everyone a few days ago, and reconfirm the eternal coolness of Zork, I give you the video to nerdcore rapper MC Fontalot's "It Is Pitch Dark," which explains how Zork and its ilk of text adventures helped...
- Tags: Basement, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Han Solo in carbonite: The new snack sensation!
- If you've ever caught yourself watching the Han-gets-frozen-in-carbonite scene from Empire Strikes Back and thought, "mmm...chocolate," Instructables has a culinary how-to for you: How to Make a Han Solo in Carbonite Chocolate Bar. You'll need the actual Kenner/Hasbro action figure to create the mold, but the process is deliciously simple....
- Tags: Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Global wiki-tization continues apace
- From boingboing: "London's Ravensbourne College is creating a new program called the School of Computing for the Creative Industries. The whole of the coursewear is Creative Commons licensed and the school itself is organized via a wiki. That's pretty twenty-first-century education!" ...
- Tags: Wiki-tization, Wiki, Online Communications, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-07-25
- Demand the cons, concerts, congregations you deserve
- More BoingBoing-filtered goodness from the O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference: "Here's my [Cory Doctorow] notes from Brian Dear's presentation on Eventful at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference -- Brian presented on his company, EVDB, an events database that tries to do for live shows and ...
- Tags: Conference, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-03-08
- Hack your pastries: Battlestar GalactiCakes
- Found via BoingBoing: Battlestar Galactica Cakes - a photoset on FlickrWhen you're a hardcore sci-fi fan looking to entertain a couple dozen geeky sugar fiends, there's only one thing you can do: Deploy a fleet of Battlestar GalactiCakes. The birthday cakes proper are pretty crude--writing "Pegasus" or "Galactica" on some...
- Tags: Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Chess...with frickin' laser beams!
- I just came across a BoingBoing post about Deflexion, a chess-like board game that involves bouncing a laser. Basically, it's a one-on-one game where each side gets a few Egyption-themed pieces, the most significant of which is a Pharaoh. The object of the game is the...
- Tags: Board, Laser, Laser Beam, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-12-06
- Pics: The ultimate liquid-cooled PCs
- A couple of weeks ago, Wired ran a photo gallery of some impressively modified PCs with some brazenly advanced and artistic liquid cooling systems. I was very impressed, until I saw this water-cooled steampunk standard-bearer, which looks like a desktop PC straight out of a Jules...
- Tags: PC, Photograph, Desktops, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- How to make a Green Lantern ring
- From MAKE blog via BoingBoing: How to make a Green Lantern ringNow, when I came across this headline, I almost blew my warp core, because any comics fanboy worth his salt knows that the Green Lantern power ring is THE ultimate wish-fulfilment power-tool. Whatever you can imagine and will into...
- Tags: Blogging, Internet, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-10-11
- Introducing the most mocked criminal of the week
- In a fine example of the axiom -- steal what you know -- we have this poor simpleton. He stole an iMac computer from some offices in Vancouver BC and decided to play around with it. The Mac OS X interface must have been too enticing for him to ignore....
- Tags: Flickr, Apple iMac, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Mark Kaelin
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Coming soon to an egg near you: Advertisements
- Reason #5174 to hate Marketers, courtesy of BoingBoing: "CBS will laser-etch ads for its programs on 35 million eggshells in the coming TV season -- the slogans will bear goody, egg-related puns, like 'CSI: Crack the Case on CBS.' The company that does the etching promises...
- Tags: Advertisement, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-07-18
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