stimulant

a few, tasty links (July 30th - July 31st):

• Instructables Preparing your own thin layer chromatography plates - More cheap lab equipment.
• MAKE: Blog: Open source hardware (slides) - Limor’s talk, from OSCON
• MAKE: Blog: Phillip Torrone and Limor Fried at OSCON 2007 - Limor!
• swissmiss: Permit May Be Required For Public Photography in NYC - =( Also scary. Who would want to make public private?
• ladyada?s ranting » Blog Archive » New Kit! USBtinyISP, a USB AVR programmer - More AVR from Limor.
• Staying on at school to 18 ‘can criminalise pupils’ | News | This is London - “No shit, Sherlock.”
• MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Make your own LED bulbs - Next: combine it with a twist-in attachment.
• “Attempted infringement” appears in new House intellectual property bill - =( That’s scary.
• Recommended Books on Parallel Programming | Thinking Parallel - So, why can’t parallel programming be a web-service (i.e. ad hoc clusters, online?)
• MAKE: Blog: Mike’s Ambient device - I swear there’s a use for ambient devices.
• MAKE: Blog: Designing Automata Kit - This seems like a bunch of fun. And makeable from the picture, too.
• Ethics bill would expose lawmakers’ pet projects - CNN.com - Tools, not bills.
• MAKE: Blog: Science, tech, electronicsy videos @ Alcatel-Lucent - Some of these videos are pretty amazing.
• Recycle Old Lightbulbs Into Salt and Pepper Shakers (TreeHugger) - I have plenty of lightbulbs.
• Wired 15.01: The Perfect Human - I want to talk to him.
• Seeing Through Computers | The American Prospect - Turkle’s problems with a rising pedagogy of simulation.
• Seductions of Sim | The American Prospect - More criticism of simulations from the Prospect.
• Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Loss for the Student Press - Justice delayed. Indefinitely. Because of the delay.
• DIY Frequency meter - Hack a Day - Cheap frequency meter.
• Biologists Helping Bookstores - See! Using the internet to mobilize a group to achieve a goal. Why don’t we learn how to do this in school?
• ~ Victory Gardens 2007 ~ - Another idea for a school: sustainable food.