Tin Foil Soldier

Make: Online : Melting table.
Creepy

Kudos to back2root, I definitely don’t have the patience for something like this awesome wood carving.

Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in.
via repeated diverted occupied cut pasted fragile developed pushed played tried tested [...]

Today a friend asked me a question that the folks at Stanley tell me they hear all the time: why does the claw — you know, the little catch at the end of your short tape measure — move back and forth? Is it just poorly attached? The short answer: no, the loose claw is [...]

Ok, there aren’t any usefull applications we can think of for this one, but we want one really badly.
via Ghost matrix, glow printing – Hack a Day.
I agree with Caleb from Hack A Day on this one, no real use but it looks awesome, especially as the LED light is redirected through the plastic rails.

one [...]

7. Turn down the thermostat on your water heater. It’s probably set at 140 degrees F to shorten the wait time for a steamy shower. But 120 or even 110 degrees is plenty hot.
Cost: A few minutes with a screwdriver in the utility room.
Savings: $30 or more per year on gas, oil, electricity, or [...]

Amazing New Water-Powered Jet Pack Video.
via Hack A Day via Wired
Obviously a water powered jet pack is limited by its need for high pressure water.  This jet pack has a long conduit that connects it to a boat like pod that apparently has some type of engine/pump in it.
Its kinda like jet-skiing, but totally freakin awesomer.  [...]

via eyefi autopsy on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
I still want one, and this just makes it look so badass; mmmm nerd pr0n

Mario etching – Hack a Day.

mmmmmmm, Lasers
If I had a laser machine type thing, everything would be laser etched.
Probably myself as well, modblog – set your lasers to fun
and laser tattoo on Hack A Day

The roads in a certain Iowa town are deliciously garlic-y. They’ve been using garlic salt to de-ice the streets.
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The garlic salt, which would have ended up in a landfill if it hadn’t been donated by Tone Brothers Inc., a local spice producer, apparently works just fine when mixed with regular road salt.
via Odd: Iowa Town [...]

We had a halloween party for my roommate’s birthday and because its fun!
We mostly finished the bar in time, but the 2 part epoxy glaze coat for the bar top wasn’t completly set yet so we had to use coasters and be careful with the bar.

This is from Thursday night when we tapped the keg.
We [...]

BME: Tattoo, Piercing and Body Modification News » Lead Story » BME’s Big Question #2: The Melancholy of Anatomy
Aside from not wanting to work on a minor, have you ever refused to do a certain procedure? What would make you refuse to do one? Are there any you’ve done that you now regret?
They have a [...]

Last night I finally stained my entertainment center. Kevin has done an awesome job building it, and last night we decided that I could say I helped make it because I paid for it and helped a little.
I almost did a coat of finish this morning, but since it only takes 2 hours between [...]

The Dry Side » Yanko Design
The slats on these benches can rotate to the dry side by cranking the handle.

The Yanko Design blog has all kinds of cool ideas / designs for stuff and things.  Some of them are purely conceptual, like I think the above is, but some are real products.

Coleman’s FlashCell: Yes, a Cordless Screwdriver That Really Charges in 90 Seconds – Popular Mechanics
We’ve tested this cordless screwdriver, and in this case, the truth is stranger than any hype. The $90 FlashCell doesn’t use a new kind of lithium-ion cell, or a trusty nickel-cadmium battery, or even ancient lead-acid technology. This bizarre device doesn’t [...]

Chris’s Crypt, The Bleeding Portrait
To make the blood flow off the painting I gave several coats of varnish and a final coat of Rain-X.
Rain-X is awesome stuff, everyone should put it on their car.  And it apparently also helps the fake blood not stick to bleeding portraits.  I have always been infatuated with home made [...]