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MAKE Magazine: Blogging epic kludges
Gizmodo: A Tribute to Splendid Half-Assery [Hacks]
GeekBrief.TV: GBTV #587 | Maximum Movie Mode, ASUS USB Blu-ray Drive, Cool Drive U360, MyDeskFriend, US Debt Clock, There I Fixed It
Boing Boing: Blog about quick-n-dirty repairs
Wired: Gadget Lab: There I Fixed It: Gallery of Dangerous, Hilarious Hacks
Blogging epic kludges
MAKE Magazine —
... The latest addition to my feed reader is There, I Fixed It, a site collecting fantastic and hilarious examples of jury-rigging in daily life. My favorite so far is the point-of-use hot water heater shown above, but the "Franken-chair" has to take a close second. Thanks to Melody for steering me to it. ...
A Tribute to Splendid Half-Assery [Hacks]
Gizmodo —
Misadventures in do-it-yourself home repair, or lateral thinking of McGuyver-esque proportions? We've all pulled something stupid like this in our time. Hey, I once tried to fix a waterbed with duct tape, big mistake. But some deeds shouldn't go unnoticed, like this cardboard computer case, or the smelly sock fix to make RockBand drums a little quieter. There, I Fixed It takes user submissions of the most inspired fixes-and the utter brain farts-and the result is a catalogue of impending disaster ...
GBTV #587 | Maximum Movie Mode, ASUS USB Blu-ray Drive, Cool Drive U360, MyDeskFriend, US Debt Clock, There I Fixed It
GeekBrief.TV —
Shownotes:
When Watchmen comes out , it’ll have a special feature called Maximum Movie Mode, where the director will stop the movie in various places and show you the scene being shot raw and compare the scene to panels from the comic book.
ASUS announced a USB Blu-ray drive, the SBC-04B1S-U. It’s Windows only and the glowing X on the side is dimmable.
The Cool Drive U360 offers USB computer to computer file transfer, as fast as 17MB/second.
The MyDeskFriend is a robot penguin that will be released in ...
Blog about quick-n-dirty repairs
Boing Boing —
Human ingenuity (and a touch of foolishness) on parade at thereifixedit.com (Thanks, Coop!)
There I Fixed It: Gallery of Dangerous, Hilarious Hacks
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... the blog “There I Fixed It”, other than that you should add it to your RSS reader immediately. It’s a gallery of user submitted hacks, the twist being that these hacks are disastrous, usually dangerously so, and many of them could quite possibly end in death.
The new car lock above is just hilarious, and the AT-AT caravan ladder mash-up is simply amazing. But the bike fire engine (below) is actually pretty handy looking, for a small village at least.
Product page [There I Fixed It via Core77] ...
There, I Fixed It
Core77 —
thereifixedit-comp.jpg On the other side of Jane Fulton Suri's Thoughtless Acts is There I Fixed It , documenting "epic kludges and adventures in home pwnership", where a kludge is "an ill-assorted collection of poorly matching parts, forming a distressing whole." Definitely less graceful than the makeshift doorstops and paper shades in Jane's book, these "quick fixes" take a seriously direct and ingenious route from broken to repaired. Our favorite is the padlocked car-door: "Look, this is just how it's going to be from now on, okay?" Submit your own ...
Gadgettes 144: The Childhood Nostalgia Episode
Crave: The gadget blog —
... Retro video games in Legos
6 high-tech ways to upgrade your barbecue from start to finish
Pretttttyyyy (Jason edition)
Vacuum-tube chess set
What the hell?
The Microsoft vomit ad saga
Kill Me
The most expensive 16 gigabytes on the planet: The Mnemosyne USB cube
Tool Time
Video mask allows you to film underwater hands-free
Gender gap
thereifixedit.com
It’s about time (childhood nostalgia edition)
iPod clock ...
Web zen: grab bag (including THE YES DANCE)
Boing Boing —
the yes dance
symmetry explorer
i do believe i came with a hat
gawker (timelapse)
there i fixed it
vikings
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