Archive for October, 2007

DIY Vampire Fangs – Weekend Projects Podcast

Last weekend I helped Bre Pettis out with his Make: Weekend Projects Podcast. Each week Bre presents a project that you can do at home yourself, and since Halloween is just around the corner, I figured I’d show him my method for making fangs. I think the fangs themselves came out pretty well, but even [ READ MORE ]

Barcamp Timeline in Google Earth

Going to a lot of Barcamp and Podcamp events, I spend a lot of time telling people the original story of Barcamp, and explaining the name. If you don’t know the story, Here’s the 2 second version as I understand it. Barcamp was a slightly-tongue-in-cheek reaction to O’Reilly’s invite only FooCamp, and the “Bar” stands [ READ MORE ]

Tori Amos in Pictures

We were at the Tori Amos concert tonight at MSG, and I took some shots I’m really happy with with my Canon S3 IS. 12x optical zoom is awesome. The concert was great – probably the best I’ve seen from Tori so far, which is a testament to the fact that she’s still growing and [ READ MORE ]

NYCResistor.com is up!

The awesome Bre Pettis had the idea to create a hacker group (of the “we hack things together”, not “we hack things apart” variety) here in NYC, and once I heard about it, I was excited to help out. We’ve had a few meetings and with a big push from Nick Bilton, just rolled out [ READ MORE ]

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