We ventured out of the lab today to check out the ArtCar Fest outside of the San Jose Museum of Art. We loved all the different construction techniques. Gluing, welding, riveting, painting, sewing – the list goes on. We took some pictures and put them in this set on flickr. Read on to see a few of our favorites.
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A mushroom is not a mush, nor is it a room. It is a fungus.
A toadstool is not a toad, and it is not a stool. It is a fungus.
And as Matt Groening informed us in his wonderful book School Is Hell (he knew: he went to the same school that I did), a fish stick is not a fish, nor is it a stick. It is a fungus.
Now, in the spirit of the quizzes that once appeared on the Brunching Shuttlecocks, we here present a list of twenty things that may or may not be fungi. Can you sort them out?
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My co-worker Rich had this sign made.
In areas where there are potential hazards, it’s important to alert those who might not otherwise be aware of them!
See thousands of other stick figures in peril in the
stick figures in peril group on flickr.
You may have seen the list of state resident names. It’s a big list that tells you that a person from Texas is called a Texan, a person from California is called a Californian, and so on. However, you know and I know that there’s something wrong with the list; it just seems artificial. It’s like someone filled in the obvious ones (Iowan…) and then made up the rest.
Here, I present my corrected version of the fifty US state resident names.
So, you’ve disassembled hard drives, taken the magnets out, made wind chimes out of the platters, and so on. One thing that you might have left over is a set of printed circuit boards. Funny shaped printed circuit boards, with holes in them. Here’s how to turn those leftover PCBs into fabulous geek-chic picture frames.
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Flickr has announced that they will be down at 10pm Pacific Time this evening (9/1/06) for approximately 2 hours. Since most of the photos at evilmadscientist.com are actually hosted on Flickr, we’ll be pretty close to down as well.
Today on DIY:Happy, we saw a story about making dessert sushi, by Megan from notmartha.org. Megan got this idea from the same place that we did: the wonderful book The Secret Life of Food, by Clare Crespo. (Everyone should go get a copy right now.)
Two years ago we too made dessert sushi, and luckily we remembered to take some pictures.
Thanks to Megan for reminding us about the project!
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You’ve got something that just looks boring. Maybe it’s too plain, or has been defaced by ugly corporate logos. You want to jazz it up, and you want it to be permanent. Here’s an easy way to make a fabulous multicolor paint job using stickers to mask your layers.
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I wrote up some notes, (previously hosted on Instructables), about how to identify (and presumably avoid eating) common insect-based ingredients in foods. Regrettably, if you are looking for advice on how to eat bugs, this article will be of very little use to you.
Here is a cool math trick that shows that the sum of an infinite number of positive integers is equal to negative one.
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