Becky says: To celebrate (one last time) the success of our Desktop Manufacturing issue of MAKE, we've teamed up with the folks at MakerBot Industries. We're going to be giving… Read the rest of the article: Win a 3D printer from Make and Makerbot

Trenchant commentary on Rupert Murdoch's no-holds-barred blitz to get the Conservatives into office in the upcoming UK election. Posted by @_Jameslloyd to TwitPic. Vote Cameron…Get Murdoch (Thanks, Alice!) Previously: Rupert… Read the rest of the article: Trenchant and graphic UK electoral commentary

Icelandic musician Eliza Geirsdottir Newman starts playing about two minutes in. (Thanks, Syd!)

Here's a website asking you to give your money to Stephen Baldwin, who recently declared bankruptcy. The Stranger has more: According to the completely awesome website Restore Stephen Baldwin, Stephen… Read the rest of the article: Restore Stephen Baldwin by giving him your money

This is Elham Al-Qasimi. She is a 26-year old from Dubai who is currently en route to the North Pole. Elham is on a solo mission to get there over… Read the rest of the article: Elham Al-Qasimi en route to become first Arab woman on solo mission to the North Pole

Janet of Poketo says: "We have an art show coming up this Saturday, April 24. It is called 'Los Angeles, I'm Yours' and the concept is a living art market… Read the rest of the article: Hand-painted lamps by Tim Biskup

Xena, the oldest living cloned pig in the world, was euthanized at the age of 9 years and 8 months after becoming unable to stand on her own. The average… Read the rest of the article: World's oldest cloned pig dies

A Spanish optometrist has invented a type of contact lens that fixes farsightedness while you sleep.

Police in Middletown, Ohio responded to a domestic disturbance call last Friday only to find Janice McCoy-Nuttle, 49, drunk on a bed with "one large white parrot… standing on her… Read the rest of the article: Police encounter drunk woman bitten by parrot, yapping dogs, thrown inhaler, etc.

Via Apartment Therapy: "The home's owner found the old armoire secondhand. He then hired a woodworker to take out the back and install it up against a doorway into his… Read the rest of the article: Secret play room uses armoire as hidden doorway

I want this laser-etched on the back of my iPad.

iPhone hacker Planetbeing of Dev-Team reports installing Android OS on an iPhone: "Android is in control," he says on the demo video. I've been working on this quietly in the… Read the rest of the article: Android installed on iPhone

I've fallen into YouTube and I can't get back up.

I've been doing a daily photoblog project and have become a fan of Photojojo, a site with an infectiously enthusiastic attitude toward the act of shooting. Like Salt & Fat,… Read the rest of the article: Have photo fun the corrosive chemical way!

Sure, Achewood and xkcd have joked about it, but it took the sadism of Sam Hughes to make Hatetris — a one-off Tetris clone that spits out the statistically worst… Read the rest of the article: Hatetris: the meanest Tetris clone you've ever played

"Have you ever wondered what Dark Side of the Moon would sound like if Pink Floyd had written it for NES, instead of for a rock band?" Vidgame programmer and… Read the rest of the article: Pink Floyd as chiptunes

My sister-in-law Mary Loquvam is organizing a fantastically geeky fundraiser for the Los Angeles Audubon Society on May 9 involving bird watching and, er, Star Trek. To celebrate LA Audubon's… Read the rest of the article: Los Angeles: Birdwatching with Star Trek stars

Brian sez, "Talk show podcast Sci Fi Saturday Night is helping to raise funds on behalf of author Spider Robinson's wife Jeanne, who is battling cancer and needs assistance with… Read the rest of the article: Charity auction for Jeanne Robinson's cancer fund

India's new copyright bill sounds like a pretty good piece of work: it declares private, personal copying to be "fair dealing" (like US fair use) and limits the prohibition on… Read the rest of the article: India's copyright bill gets it right

Someday, maybe, by some manner of communal Herculean effort, we will find a way to take the peerlessly rich/complex but almost entirely unapproachable game Dwarf Fortress and match it with… Read the rest of the article: Bronzemurder v. Oggez Rashas: a beautifully illustrated Dwarf Fortress tale