Here's the cover for the MAKE Halloween special, which is loaded with projects that will show you how to create a terrific haunted house, throw a cannibal feast party, and… Read the rest of the article: Make Halloween special
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Mark Frauenfelder Here's a sample from Miles Thompson's upcoming show at La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Hollywood. Link
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Mark Frauenfelder Freakonomics interviewed Sudhir Venkatesh, a professor of sociology at Columbia University about his research into street gang life. He has a book coming out in 2008, called Gang Leader for… Read the rest of the article: Interview with street gang researcher
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Mark Frauenfelder Plastic God has made a series of plastic figurines of leaders who have made a lot of people miserable. The Saddam Hussein doll glows in the dark to indicate his… Read the rest of the article: Plastic God's Axis of Evil Lego-like figurines
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Mark Frauenfelder Threat Level reports that Dateline NBC has sent an undercover mole with a hidden camera to the DefCon hacker conference. Dateline is hoping to get videos of hackers talking about… Read the rest of the article: Dateline NBC's DefCon mole has been outed
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Mark Frauenfelder Webb Alert, the new daily Internet news roundup hosted by Morgan Webb promises to be a terrific five-minute Web video show. They've added an RSS feed so you can subscribe… Read the rest of the article: Webb Alert day 2
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Mark Frauenfelder PCL Linkdump presents this wonderful magazine advertisement from the late '50s. Spencer gifts was selling REAL LIVE MEXICAN BURROS by mail. REAL LIVE MEXICAN BURROS The Gift of a Lifetime… Read the rest of the article: Order a live burro by mail
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Mark Frauenfelder David Pogue passes along a good tip for iPhone users on his blog: You know, of course, that in general, cellphone calls to other people who have the same carrier… Read the rest of the article: Free call indicator for iPhone users
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Mark Frauenfelder Here's an article from CRAFT Vol.2, written by Arwen O'Reilly — How to make your own kombucha tea. Kombucha is on its way to being the new "it" drink. This… Read the rest of the article: How to make a kombucha "mushroom"
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Mark Frauenfelder Drugnerd has a video about the arrest of Germs drummer Don Bolles. Police searched his van earlier this year and found a bottle of Dr. Bronner's liquid soap, which tested… Read the rest of the article: Dr. Bronner defends Germs' drummer against GHB charge
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Mark Frauenfelder Video — 10 minute trailer for Orange Sunshine, an upcoming documentary about the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a gang of outlaw bikers who dropped LSD and became acid evangelists and… Read the rest of the article: A surreal and supremely inane compendium of miscellaneous knowledge, Vol 9
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Mark Frauenfelder Phillip Torrone made this great video about the stuff in the new issue of CRAFT vol. 4. (My wife, Carla Sinclair, is editor-in-chief) Link
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Mark Frauenfelder Lisa Jo Rudy, the About.com guide to Autism, writes about recent studies that suggest autistic kids are especially attracted to Thomas Tank Engine. The study suggests that children with autism… Read the rest of the article: Do autistic kids especially like Thomas Tank Engine?
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Mark Frauenfelder James Lileks is having a grand old time poking fun at old comic book covers in a new section of his website called "Funny Books: Dubious Moments in Comic History."… Read the rest of the article: James Lileks makes fun of old comic book covers
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Mark Frauenfelder The International Rocketbelt Convention is taking place at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, Niagara Falls, New York on August 11-12 2007, 09:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. Rocketbelt test-pilots, builders, and… Read the rest of the article: Rocketbelt convention
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Mark Frauenfelder Hugh says: "Tim Inklebarger describes hacking up a dead whale in his excellent 'I Lived in Alaska' column." In August 2004, a 28-ton juvenile humpback was struck by one of… Read the rest of the article: What is it like to cut up a whale?
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Mark Frauenfelder Video — Goofy is a smoking fiend in this old Disney cartoon. (Thanks, Mike!) Teen arrested for recording 20 second clip of Transformers "Jhannet Sejas readily admits she used her… Read the rest of the article: A surreal and supremely inane compendium of miscellaneous knowledge, Vol 8
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Mark Frauenfelder Ethan says: I went to Yankee Stadium last night and was surprised that everyone entering the stadium is asked if they have a cell phone. If yes, then they are… Read the rest of the article: Cell phones must be charged or no entry to Yankee Stadium
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Mark Frauenfelder In his Boston Globe Brainiac blog, Joshua Glenn takes New Yorker reviewer Anthony Lane to task for not knowing enough about science fiction. In his July 30 review of Sunshine,… Read the rest of the article: Josh Glenn reviews Anthony Lanes review of "Sunshine"
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Mark Frauenfelder From Tokyo Times: The Japanese habit of wearing masks during hay fever season may well be what created a fondness for such facial fashion amongst certain people, rather bizarrely resulting… Read the rest of the article: Face masks as fashion in Japan