When I was a kid, my dad had a green IBM Selectric typewriter with a black keyboard. He used it to publish a stock market analysis and investing strategy newsletter, which he banged out on his Selectric in his bedroom. Sometimes, to make money to buy Wacky Packages, or issues of MAD magazine, [...]

Stereo pair set up for Cross-Eyed viewing.

We Just finished applying a layer of 24” x 24” slate tiles to our back patio. It was a straight-forward enough tiling job, but the scale of it has me feeling like i just finished building the pyramids or something. But I think that it was worth the effort. Just had to show it [...]

Although coconut shells do have some well established niche market uses such as novelty swimwear and small caged-pet shelters, I can’t help but to feel as though too many of them are going to waste.
The New Altoids Tin?
No I don’t mean as a mint holder, but as an improvised homebrew electronics project enclosure. The Altoids [...]

Mark Frauenfelder and Mr. Jalopy have partnered up to write a new blog called Dinosaurs and Robots.
Mark is the founder of Boing Boing and the Editor in Chief of Make Magazine. Mr. Jalopy also writes for Make, and is a curator and purveyor of some of the great forgotten artifacts [...]

When I was in 5th grade, I saw an ad in the back of Boy’s Life magazine for a set of plans that promised show you how to build a personal hovercraft using simple hand tools and old vacuum cleaner motor. Needless to say, I knew that this was going to be the best [...]

My testosterone levels have reached alarming highs over the past year, what with all this building of automotive management computers and fuel-injection systems, motor rebuilding, horsepower extraction exercises, and various other grease-monkeying that has been absorbing all of my liesure time.

Mike Yates remembers 1974 (continued)

Yates Update.