Brad Carter took our stickers to Target and has some great photos to show for it. See More photos at flickr, and Brad’s blog entry about the expedition. Nice work!
(See also the contest from Fake Steve.)
Category Archives: Everything Else
December Quickie Linkdump
Holiday gifts, some math fun, and the usual weirdness.
- We personally endorse the excellent Geek Jewelry from Nicholas and Felice. Here is a bit about the making of.
- Acorn Studios products: Even more geek jewelry
- Don’t count sheep in this chair.
- What’s special about that number
- Virtual Slide Rule. Score!
- Pizza: the final frontier
- Kitties are great. This one likes to play in the water.
- Making fractions easier: Tips that sometimes work.
- LED Hanukkah Menorahs for sale by Lyle.
- God Hates Shrimp (or so I’m told).
- FSM Holiday e-Card Machine
Galaga Quilt by Carolina Patchworks
This Galaga quilt from Carolina Patchworks would make the perfect present for the retro arcade game fan. According to the etsy listing, it “is fully compatible with the XBox 360, Wii, PlayStation III, all high-definition televisions, most models of fireplace, and a wide variety of good books.”
However, only one lucky geek in the world is going to get this seriously underpriced masterwork as their Christmas present this year, so make sure your trigger-finger skills are in tip-top shape before you head on over to etsy.
Thanks, Sean!
Related: QuiltBert
November linkdump
(The revenge of random stuff; November edition.)
- Check out the Dalek Cupcake Army by Cat Morely of Cut Out + Keep! Speaking of which, Cut Out + Keep has a new projects section and is looking for your contributions to it.
- Objects of desire
- (2D) Dalek cookies!
- Tiny, but not surface mountelectronics
- What makes an office bathroom great?
- 1862 Bar-Tender’s guide
- A cylon pumpkin with a movie.
- Cylon Vexplorer
- Another cylon pumpkin, who has some cool friends.
- A Variation on our Snap-o-lantern using an XBC
- The sordid story of the Signetics 25120 9046xN fully-encoded random access write-only memory IC. (Datasheet here.)
- The final word on cats versus dogs
- Playpen ball calculator
- Dubya… veal….
- Umbrella bats continue to show up here and there.
- If only I had one of these in high school.
- Make your own iron-on letters.
- The British translation of Rube Goldberg is Heath Robinson. (And Brits, vice versa.)
- More component art (thanks Patti!)
- LOLBLADERUNNER! (And more)
- Weird blinking lights.
- New honorary Mad Scientist: Rebecca Stern. (Rebecca, you rock!)
- My photo of a transistor was featured in this promo piece sponsored by Intel about their new chips.
- Screenprinting chocolate. Nice.
- History of the Utah Teapot
- Binary cookies.
- Is it christmas? (On average, the answer turns out to be no, by the way.)
Lolsaur. OMG Rawr!
Lolsaur is a new site that has (silly) potential.
Here’s my attempt, adapted from the original photo by Marjorie Morris Lipan (CC-BY-NC-SA/2.0 license).
[And, created with fd’s Flickr Toys.]
Frighten yourself with ask.com!
I saw that ask.com displays a list of search suggestions if you have trouble completing your thought. Since we do a lot of “how to” articles, I thought that I should see what people are searching for and… and… I am now officially frightened.
(Yes, it actually suggested that. I only added the arrow.)
Update: We’re having a contest now.
Halloween link roundup
- In our original post about the Dalek pumpkin, we suggested that someone else make an R2D2 pumpkin. Well, someone finally did, and it’s awesome: take a look.
- Bee-yoootiful Spider Cakes from Not Martha. (See also last years Crawly Cakes.)
- Brain Cupcakes from the brilliant Clare Crespo
- A good implementation of our umbrella-bat costume.
- Dress your kid up as a Doctor Who Cyborg, in your choice of flavors. (Just don’t expect your kit to be too pleased about it.)
- Simple Cyberman pumpkin
- Cylon and Totoro pumpkins
- Kick-ass Pac-man pumpkins
- People who can really carve pumpkins put us to shame! (Holy cow.)
- The Pumpkin Gutter might be useful for mass production.
- And, even if you think that pumpkin carving is dangerous, you can still carve one online.
- Finally, something that is genuinely frightening, since Halloween is “supposed to” include a good scare here and there: a list of terrifying foods. (Not safe for vegetarians, not safe for viewing while eating.)
Green Machine
My old friend Blaise Mibeck sent in photos of the Green Machine, a brilliant minimalist dystopian creation by his son Gaelen, age 12. The photos are slightly blurry, but the content makes up for it. [Link]
October Linkdump
- After my video has had 10^6 views on YouTube, I have learned, firsthand, the sad truth about such things.
- Costume for people who like Big meatballs.
- The ID Please flickr group.
- Cute 500 watt cat
- My new favorite expression: “Sneakier than a dehydrated grape brick.”
- Whoever put together the graphs on page 9 of this PDF datasheet (for an SMT DC-DC converter) should be shot.
- Hey Okies, what’s with your tasteless new license plates? (via).
- I bet that magnetically controllable liquid photonic crystals would be fun to play with.
- I could look at this table of data structures all day long. link.
- I bet that the people who run this blog are as freaked out by looking at Evil Mad Scientist as we are when we look at their page.
- I like LED Jack o’lanterns
- List of electrical plugs in different countries. Yup, that’s useful.
- I like that the BBC has an updated Dalek Cake recipe.
- Beware, there may be Daleks already lurking in your kitchen.
- I wish that I had a good excuse to build a web site based on tiddlywiki; I really like the interface.
- Speaking of awesome things, check out this video made with Google Street View. It should be longer.
Badass High Vacuum Preparation Oven
My friend Jeff is responsible for this masterwork of laboratory instrumentation: the Badass High Vacuum Preparation Oven. Physics geeks can read the thrilling details here.
Jeff is really onto something here. More people would want to be physicists if Badass-Compliant Engineering were more common for everyday lab work.
