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Instructables: exploring

Here's how to make hummus, the ultimate delicious and healthy Mediterranean snack. The ingredients First you need a food processor. While you're at the grocery store pick up the following things: 15 oz. can of garbanzo beans, otherwise known as chickpeas 6 oz. cup of plain Greek yogurt jar of Ta...
By: megtalley

Lifehacker

Dropping off your bottles to be recycled is great and all, but with this DIY solution you'll be able to recycle them in-house into decorative cups and organizers.

Over at the design and DIY blog Curbly, user Plastolux admired the interesting colors of the various wine bottles that passed through his house. It seemed a waste to let such pretty bottles get shipped of to the recycling plant so he c...

Hack a Day

True randomness can be hard to come by in the digital world. [Andy Green] is making it easier to get true entropy by using this random USB dongle. The Whirlygig uses a CPDL to gather data from a set of of oscillators. The oscillators have a constantly fluctuating frequency due to temperature changes; if they run faster they generate more heat which in turn slows them down. This, along with the ...

Instructables: exploring

The LED Umbrella with Arduino combines an umbrella, an 8x10 LED matrix and an Arduino microcontroller to create a controllable, programmable LED experience in the privacy of your own umbrella. This project was inspired by the Electric Umbrella by sockmaster and a number of LED matrix instructables o...
By: matth3w

Engadget

Ingenious, eco-friendly concepts are all around us, there's no denying that. This one caught our eye because it's pretty innovative, seemingly well thought out, and good looking to boot. The Turbine Light concept (which is going to be a part of the upcoming Greener Gadgets conference in New York City at the end of this month) harnesses the power of the wind from cars rushing past to light up...

Gizmodo

There are some things that I've always struggled with in life: Professing love, admitting that I'm part robot, and confessing that I like to fight crime. Thankfully this card does it all for me.

Ok, ok. So I'll have to correct the gender on the card, but come on! No product is perfect. [Etsy via The Daily What]

I Heart Robotics

This is a video of the torpedo launcher from USC Robotics, developed for their AUV.

MAKE Magazine

There has been no shortage of food-based instruments around here, however I particularly like this one that Youtube user heita3 made from an egg shell. It's a good reminder that pretty much any old thing can be made into a fun project! [Thanks, Nancy!]

More:

• How-to: Clay sweet potato ocarina
• Ocarina from soda can
• Carved carrot clarinet
• Handlebars as wind instrument

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MacOSXHints.com

The old Bonjour Browser hint for Screen Sharing was disabled in a 10.5 security update, and was missing completely in 10.6. However, a new workaround seems to have been built into 10.6, and it might even better than a browser window.

When you connect to any system via Screen Sharing in 10.6, a .vncloc file is automatically created within your user's Library/Application Support/Screen Sharing...

Designboom - Weblog

once again, international creative agency, amsterdam worldwide, has fused the eclectic
and ancient traditions of japanese art and contemporary culture of ignite fashion brand
in 2010.

following the success of three previous award-winning 'made of japan' strategy-inspired sculptures,
the centrepiece of this year's campaign is a totem to traditional japanese tansu...

MAKE Magazine

Make biodegradable "bioplastic" out of common household ingredients, then laser-cut it with ease. [the Shapeways blog]

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Nerdcore

(Youtube Direktslide, danke Alex!)

Je nachdem, wie lange Ihr schon in diesem Internetz unterwegs seit, steigt die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass ihr eine Szene namens „Indian Horseslide“ schonmal gesehen habt. Ich kriege den kurzen Ausschnitt aus einem tamilischen Actionfilm ungefähr alle zwei Monate von irgend jemandem geschickt, von dem Ding gibt’s auch animierte GIFs und das Teil ist sowas wie...

MAKE Magazine

Voxopolis is a 3D city-generating engine based on Conway's Game of Life and programmed in Processing by Jeannette Kuo, Dino Rossi and Dominik Zausinger. Also see the Flickr set. [via Beyond the Beyond]

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Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome

Brain Freeze ice cube trays aren't just cleverly named, they're -- yes, that's all they are. $8 takes home the piece of molded rubber and another couple bucks brings home some food coloring. Mix all that shit together with some tap water, say a magic prayer, and you've got yourself a party! Did I mention booze? You're gonna need booze. Plus some womens. Preferably skanky.Product Siteviabra...

Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome

Sure Retro Thursday isn't even a real segment on Geekologie but you never know, I might run with it. And by "it" I mean your bike. Of course if I was smart I would ride with it, but I'm not. This is a Japanese commercial from 1978 for Hagoromo canned tuna featuring one-off three-off versions of your favorite Star Wars characters. It didn't really make me want to run out and buy tuna. Slim ...

Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome

This is not a game you try to beat, this is a game you try to play for as long as possible. ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A START. Come on, unlimited retries! The Nipple Gamepad T-Shirt [gizmodo] Thanks to mrHiggins, Yopoleo, Tony8688, Nelson, David B. and ffffffffffffffffffffffffff, who have never played this game. Ooooooh, burnt for sending tips! You're bad, GW, you're bad.

Nerdcore

Franco Brambillas Bilderserie „Invading the Vintage“ hatte ich schonmal vor rund einem halben Jahr, die neuesten beiden Bilder bestehen aus AT ATs beim Rodeo und beim Rennen.

Invading the Vintage (via Superpunch)