Forget Black Friday, 3am sales, and long lines of unhappy people buying giant flatscreen TVs, it's time to MAKE something this holiday season! Impress your loved ones with a truly special gift from the heart, not from a store. Spend the day after Thanksgiving with your family and [...]
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Taking an Open-Source Approach to Hardware @ WSJ.com...
Huge discounts from Amazon on Apple kit. E.g., the current price for a new white MacBook is just $884.98 — savings of $114 off the regular price. iPods, MacBooks, iMacs — all on sale. Shop from this link (for anything from Amazon) and I’ll get a kickback.
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The dollar hit a 14-year low against the yen yesterday.This Thanksgiving, my sole accomplishment has been introducing FunkyPlaid to Bejeweled 2. He is … a little obsessed. The good news is that he is extremely good at visual strategy games, so he has almost exceeded my highest score. The bad news is that I am pretty sure he [...]
I get so frustrated with the City sometimes. Okay, most of the time. Following Oakland government as closely as I do, especially in dire times like these, can be completely maddening. I am often tempted to just throw my hands in the air, declare the City hopeless broken, and like, [...]
A reader named Jim from Arizona sent us an email a while back about his nine year old son, Schuyler, aka "Doctor Professor," who wanted to join the Make: Money program to fund his DIY, robotics, and electronics projects. At nine, the kid is already teaching Arduino to 4-18 [...]
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Want to get some hacking in after your Thanksgiving feast? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar. Wish your event was on the list? Add it to the calendar!
Coming up this week:
Ever since you made one of those turkeys out of an outline of your hand in kindergarten, you've probably been aware of the fact that Thanksgiving might not be the preeminent maker's holiday. Unless your forte is food. Or turkey papercraft.
But being thankful, taking stock of' [...]
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Today’s post is a serious one.
Let’s face it, not everyone is an AAPL or GOOG shareholder. Not everyone is working at a company that is getting acquired or IPOing. Not everyone is doing well in Mafia Wars or Farmville. Not everyone has seen 10% appreciation in their home [...]
Study: Bay Area Housing, Transportation Costs High – cbs5.com
San Francisco Bay Area households spend up to two-thirds of their income on transportation and housing costs, a severe burden that leaves workers with insufficient resources for other basic needs, according to a study released on Wednesday.
The costs in the [...]
It’s the night before Thanksgiving, my neighbor is at a sing-along “Sound of Music” at the Castro, my married friends from college are probably getting a good nights sleep in preparation of their Thanksgivings with their new babies and their aging Filipino grandparents, and my bear friends are probably fucking [...]
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BackType, the most robust and feature-rich comments tracker on the Web, has expanded its services over the last few months to include a number of new items, including the launch of BackTweets, to find shared links on the microblogging service, a TweetCount plugin to highlight the [...] 
Wow. Has it been almost a year since my last favorites list? Yikes, I think it has. I'm in the mood to write one. I just finished doing my portion of the prep for dinner tomorrow night, dishes are done, counter tops clean. The house is quiet, and' [...]
Sneak Preview: MoMA’s Tim Burton Retrospective @ Vulture
Kari Byron is currently Twittering live during the MythBusters epidode they're airing tonight.
MythBusters Official on Twitter
From MAKE magazine:
Want to know how to build a hydrogen rocket? How about a laser light show in a lunchbox? Or a simple remote-controlled videocam' [...]
With the Thanksgiving holiday nearly upon us here in the States, I suspect there will be a lot of beer drinking and watching television happening over the long weekend. For those of us who know that life is not a spectator sport, there's this week's flashback from [...]
Are you looking for last-minute gluten-free thanksgiving recipes? If so, click here to view all the recipes I've tagged under my "Thanksgiving recipes" tag.
Ian Lesnet, who used to write for Hack A Day, did the Bus Pirate project, and now runs Dangerous Prototypes, has this cool little hackable LED holiday card/ornament (don't tell Adafruit). The ATtiny13A-driven card comes in two flavors, an already-assembled version,' [...]
When President Obama addresses the nation on Afghanistan Tuesday night, he will own the war. And Democratic solidarity will be shattered. His decision is widely viewed as the most consequential of...
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Photographs from the Tuned In benefit concert for the Scholarship Fund at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music on November 11, 2009.
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Birds & Batteries
Edmund Welles
Erik Jekabson Quartet
Magik*Magik Orchestra
Pacific Guitar Ensemble
It's been a rough week for California's first family, at least when it comes to the tabloids and driving -- namely TMZ , which busted Maria Shriver (again) Tuesday for failing to obey traffic laws....
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but [...]
Interesting article over on New Scientist about Erin Rapacki's design for a "low-cost" robot that can be used by the wheelchair-bound to grip, turn, and push or pull on most kinds of doorknobs. Maybe my sense of how much this sort of thing should cost is [...]
My thanks to Tap Tap Tap for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Voices. Voices is a fun new iPhone app — make an audio recording and Voices will change your voice into one of several funny characters, including a chipmunk, a robot, a protected witness, and over [...]
We sure love our ballot initiatives here in sunny Cali, and 2010 is shaping up to be no exception. Consider this: in the past month, the Secretary of State has announced that no less than 17...
Happy Thanksgiving, you big turkeys!
