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Just watch him play Smokestack Lightning.
I can’t wait to get Mark Frauenfelder’s new book, Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World
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How to play Modest Mouse’s Float On on ukulele.
Mad Mad World Beach Bum Dance. Thanks, Pat!
COOP is sending back lots of great photos of this year’s La Carrera Panamericana.
I hope you enjoy seeing all these microcars as much as I did.
A demo of a Stylus controlled GUI CAD program in 1963!
Brilliant song and animation by Bill Barminski.
Do watch this video of some amazing water rockets in action. Catchy soundtrack to boot.
My friend Pat has a deep interest in automobiles. He has a new car-spotting concern called cars I have seen.
How to ask quality skeptical questions. Show this to your kids. Via BB.
Remixed War Propaganda
Pull that T-stick baby!
Amy Crehore has been letting the paint dry on Tickler No.2 for about the last 2 years. It’s now available for viewing, and its a STUNNER!
A Rolling Stones fan does a nice one-man Satisfaction Cover
After about 3 weeks, I could no longer smell the lacquer, so I considered it dry and set about the task of making the guitar shiny.
Wet Sanding
To get the paint level and remove the slight orange peel texture that you will get with all but the most fortuitous rattle-can spray jobs, I wet sanded [...]
I really had my heart set on adding an edge binding to my grizzly telecaster kit. The problem is that the guitar body comes supplied with the edges pre-sanded and rounded off to a 1/4″ radius. This curvature was too much to allow for installation of even the thickest edge binding that I [...]
