Building a $500 Myth box – Build the fastest, most stable, most brand-name, best looking, $500 PC I can muster. Hardware testing phase (nope, way too lazy) Super tune a stage 1 gentoo install. Compile a million small things, optimize, optimize, optimize. Edit some files, load some modules, press some buttons. Plug into TV, get some nachos… [via] Link.
This looks good- Bridging the gap between instructions included with LEGO sets and the unlimited world of freestyle LEGO building, The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide is a nuts-and-bolts approach to making original models from those famous plastic bricks. Written by Allan Bedford, a lifelong LEGO fan whose most ambitious model to date is a 5,000-piece replica of Toronto’s famed CN Tower, this new title draws together core techniques, principles and reference information. Link.
I heard you can make a fine living playing pachinko once you have the “hungry spirit”…The Pachinko Hakubutsukan (Pachinko Museum, more pictures) boasts 148 machines, many of them rare and historic mementos of the game’s industry. “I am really grateful for my encounter with pachinko. I wanted to say thank you to pachinko and wanted to return something” to the game, explained Tetsuya Makino, its manager. Link.
Nice HOW TO if you use Google Sidebar and Talk…After you install both Google Talk and Google Sidebar, you can select an option to integrate Talk into the Sidebar. (Then you can dock it to the side of your screen.) Do you think Windows is slowly becoming a bunch of device drivers to run Google apps on?… [via] Link.
This site is dedicated to those individuals who like to do-it-yourself (DIY) when building Kustom cars and hot rods. These are the ones who take “it can’t be done” as a challenge and like to prove it wrong. People who enjoy spending the time searching through junkyards and data books looking for the illusive part that will work. Link.
Mark posted a fun puzzle from the April 1960 issue of Popular Science. Head on over to BoingBoing and solve it- it would be great to have a MAKER solve it first! Link.
This was Day-1 for Vol.03 on newsstands, and so far it looks like they’re showing up all over the place! Photo! MAKE is available now at Amazon.com, and in the magazine section of Barnes & Noble, Borders, CompUSA, and Tower Records. MAKE is also available through many of the same leading online and brick-and-mortar retailers that carry O’Reilly’s other publications, plus select newsstand outlets. Link.
