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- Happy Mothers' Day!
- HOWTO teach kids to be makers
- Perfect Hobbit-hole dollhouse with handmade furnishings
- HOWTO Make a giraffe pancake
- Elfquest movie inches closer to actual existence
- Star Wars trilogy retold in 2 minutes, 13 seconds using LEGOs
- It's not a urinal, is it?
- Fan updating David Lynch's "Dune" with modern FX
- Big Content's depraved indifference
- Gulf Oil Spill 2010, "Yo Dawg" edition
- Feral rabbits by the thousands on U Victoria campus
| Posted: 08 May 2010 10:53 PM PDT  Happy Mothers' Day to all the moms in the world, especially mine, pictured here in Algonquin Provincial Park with me in her arms, in 1971. Also to Bubbie and Grandma, to Alice, to Granny Val, to Kate and Tara Lee, and to all the aunts back in Toronto and in Russia. You people are amazing. |
| Posted: 08 May 2010 10:30 PM PDT Avi sez, "Gever Tulley outlines his simple yet radical pedagogical method in this short video. Gever's book 50 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do is worth a high school education (or more) by itself." Goddamn if that isn't the most inspirational fifteen minutes you spend today, you're doing something right. Tulley's method: learn to use power tools. Do a quick sketch of something challenging and great. Start building. Learn to use more tools. Encounter hard problems. Work them out. Make stuff. Feel great. Do more. I want to go back in time and attend Tinkerer's School. Gever Tulley, Big Ideas Fest 2009 Fifty Dangerous Things parents' experiences blog Previously: |
| Perfect Hobbit-hole dollhouse with handmade furnishings Posted: 08 May 2010 10:26 PM PDT  Maddie made a perfect, sprawling, insanely detailed hobbit hole dollhouse, including handmade furnishings. It is superb and perfect in every way. Anyway I decide to take on this project as part of a college course I was doing part time when my twins boys were 1 year old. The module was called 'the importance of play' and we had to make a toy to hand in at the end of the term. Of course me being me, I took it to the extreme and at first I decided to make a little hill with a front door like Bag End. I used to play Warhammer and make scenery and paint the little models so the idea was to make an A4 type size model hill using my Warhammer scenery stuff (foam, static grass etc) I can just hear my friend Andi rolling her eyes at me and calling me 'geek', but apparently I was born this way and I don't think I will ever change lolMy Hand Made Hobbit Hole - Bag End from Lord of the Rings (via Geekologie) Previously:
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| Posted: 08 May 2010 10:21 PM PDT As the father of a toddler who loves both pancakes and giraffes, I wholly approve of this quick and easy method for making giraffe pancakes from Jim, the master pancakista. Previously: (Thanks, Marilyn!)
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| Elfquest movie inches closer to actual existence Posted: 08 May 2010 10:27 PM PDT Attention Elfquest fans! The creators say in an interview with Geek Tragedy that a script for the indy comic's long-awaited movie—in development hell since 1981—has just been delivered to WB. It has four months to greenlight before the option expires. They also discuss Avatar blues; making inadvertently eco-friendly low fantasy; and the social intelligence of fools. Co-creator Richard Pini also demands more and better slash fan-art of the protagonists. Can you provide, yaoi fans? Yes you can. But not here. There. |
| Star Wars trilogy retold in 2 minutes, 13 seconds using LEGOs Posted: 08 May 2010 04:50 PM PDT This is made of all kinds of awesome and win. My favorite line: "That was when the boy got some very surprising news about his dad." Watch amazing 2-minute Star Wars trilogy ... with LEGOs! |
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| Fan updating David Lynch's "Dune" with modern FX Posted: 08 May 2010 02:07 PM PDT  Sasha Burrow is working on a "fan-edit" of David Lynch's Dune to recreate some of the film's more outdated special effects. The picture above is what his version of a 2nd Stage Guild Navigator could look like. The project started out simply but has steadily grown in scope, and now Sasha is looking for help from other contributors: The project initially began as an endeavor to build a "proper" ornithopter - one with flapping wings, that neither the movie or the mini-series managed to achieve. However, with the advent of the "fan-edit" the scope of the project has expanded with the goal of updating the effects in all those places in the movie where I feel things could be significantly "improved." Although I am currently working on this by Myself, it's a large undertaking and if there is anyone interested in helping this project along, feel free to contact MeHelp Update David Lynch's Dune |
| Big Content's depraved indifference Posted: 08 May 2010 08:53 AM PDT Something I think gets lost in the debate over DRM: Big Content doesn't want DRM because they want to usher in an era of totalitarian control technologies; they don't want copyright filters because they want to make the censor's job easier; they don't want increased intermediary liability because they want to extinguish easy personal expression and collective action. They want these things because they want to make more money. But they are indifferent to the point of depravity to the totalitarian, censorious and restrictive consequences of DRM, filters and liability. They aren't moustache-twirling supervillains. They're greedy, blinkered provincials and hypercompetitive macho bullies who are unwilling to look past the short-term benefits to the consequences. They think only of how things will work, not how they'll fail. When we (we -- I do this too, all the time) focus on the consequences to culture and creativity, we allow this debate to be defined in terms of who gets to remix what, or whether you'll have to start paying for the ongoing use of your cultural goods. These are important issues. But they're a distant second to a rearchitecting of our law and technology to create the preconditions for repression, corruption and suppression of dissent. That's the real fight: are we shaping a world where our children will be able to come together effortlessly to improve their lots and the lots of their neighbors; where they'll be able to fight corruption and hold their leaders to account; where they'll be able to participate and help others to participate? Or will we allow a small gang of selfish and short-sighted entertainment companies to fatally compromise the infrastructure of the 21st century to add a few points to its bottom line? |
| Gulf Oil Spill 2010, "Yo Dawg" edition Posted: 07 May 2010 05:19 PM PDT Yo dawg I heard u like floating oil, so I made an oil boom out of oil so u can float oil in your floating oil (oil booms are made from oil products). Yo dawg I heard u like toxic chemicals, so I made a toxic chemical to disperse in your toxic chemical so u can suspend your toxins in your toxins (dispersants being used by BP to suspend the oil particles may themselves be toxic). (Thanks, Clayton Cubitt) |
| Feral rabbits by the thousands on U Victoria campus Posted: 08 May 2010 05:09 AM PDT British Columbia's University of Victoria is awash in thousands of feral bunnies, and no one knows what to do about it: As the university struggles with the question of what to do with between 1,500 and 2,000 feral rabbits -- which are chewing and digging their way through the campus grounds -- emotions are running high, fuelled by accusations of misinformation from both sides.Rabbit woes continue to multiply at University of Victoria (Thanks, Dan Mac!) Previously: |
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