Wyclef Jean: Feel Free to Call Me Bob Marley, or Dylan Anytime [Legacies]

Wyclef Jean's new EP is out today, and the Guardian caught up with him. He sometimes speaks in the third person, and knows he's the man: "Fans on Twitter call me the modern-day Fela or Marley or Dylan, you know." More »

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Craftsman and MAKE build the Ultimate Santa's Sleigh

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Santa's helpers (students from UC Woodlawn Charter Schools) solder resistors to Christmas LEDs

This holiday season, MAKE has teamed up with Craftsman, Chicago's Butler Street Foundry and hackerspace Pumping Station One to create a number of techie projects as part of the Craftsman Experience store. The main collaboration is an Ultimate Santa's Sleigh, complete with an air cannon, LED lights, and other festive effects. You can check it out on Friday and Sunday nights, from 6:30-7:30pm CT (Live or Online). See the Craftsman Facebook page (click on the Experience tab) for more info and live streaming.

Here, Christina Pei offers her account of the initial phase of design and building the sleigh. —

On Saturday, November 20, a team met to begin building Craftman Tools and MAKE magazine's Ultimate Santa's Sleigh. John Lamonica, Gabriel Akagawa, Glen Trebilcock, and the rest of the team at the Butler Street Foundry, generously offered their space as the meeting and eventual building space. We were joined by special effects artist RJ Hermanowicz, and assistant director of the University of Chicago Woodlawn Charter Schools, Assata Moore. This rag-tag team of metal workers, engineers, artists, designers, and educators started with nothing more than a few pieces of paper, some chalk, and Craftsman Tools catalogs.

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Courtesy of Glen Trebilcock and Gabriel Akagawa of the Butler Street Foundry, a scale model of the Ultimate Santa's Sleigh constructed of cardboard and glue sticks


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Source: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/12/craftsman_tools_and_make_build_the.html

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Curse of the Spider-Man Musical Claims Another Victim [Accidents]

Two actors have broken ankles and feet during rehearsals for the absurdly malfunctioning Spider-Man musical. Now another actress suffered a concussion from a falling rope. Anyone who plans on seeing a preview of the show should bring first-aid kits. More »

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Mil-spec snake robot

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I'm digging this Israeli military robo-snake(!) of which each segment packs its own power supply, sensors, actuators, and microcontrollers. Looks like the business end has a camera ringed with IR LEDs. (See the snake in action in this video.) [Via Dvice]

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Source: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/12/mil-spec_snake_robot.html

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How to keep your inventions from blowing up

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Prolific maker Stephen Hobley has an interesting idea for protecting your wall-powered projects from self-destructing: add a lightbulb in series with them. The lightbulb acts like a current-limiting resistor, preventing your device from drawing more power than it can handle.

Note that this is not the same thing as using a fuse (which you should also do). The lightbulb hack works by restricting the maximum amount of current a device can draw, while a fuse cuts off the flow of power if it becomes too great.

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Source: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/12/how_to_keep_your_inventions_from_bl.html

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Discover the perfect Windows Phone 7 app with Bing

We have teamed with Windows Phone to help you find the perfect app. Announcing the Bing Visual Search Gallery for Windows Phone 7 apps.

If you’re in the US or UK, you can now use Bing Visual Search Gallery (VSG) to quickly and easily narrow the library of Windows Phone 7 apps down to the precise one you’re looking for .

Whether you’re looking to sort by category- say games, music or productivity- or by price, rating, top downloads or the ever popular “free”, we’ve got you covered. On the left rail, we provide easy to use filters that allow you to focus your search and find what you’re looking for in a matter of clicks. If you want to check to see if a popular app is available, just type the name into the search bar. 

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What do you do once you’ve discovered a great app? Just click the link to the app and Bing will display the details page with a direct link to Zune Marketplace, where you can download the app to your PC and wirelessly sync to your phone via Zune. If you’re interested in discovering which Windows Phone is right for you can also check out the Windows Phone 7 VSG here.

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- The Bing Team

Other posts of interest:

One of many reasons to get your hands on Windows Phone 7

Bing and Microsoft Tag make downloading the perfect app a snap

Source: http://www.bing.com/community/Site_Blogs/b/search/archive/2010/11/17/discover-the-perfect-windows-phone-7-app-with-bing.aspx

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Small Ways to Use Less and Save Money

Why worry about the small things, they aren't worth much and waste time. There is an Ethiopian proverb that talks about the power of small things: "When the spiderwebs unite, they can tie up a lion."

In the Bathroom
Shampoo - I was watching a shampoo commercial on TV and found it interesting that the person in the commercial had used enough shampoo that they could spike their hair into the shape of a Mohawk. That meant that they had used more than the recommended quarter size amount, or in his case, since it was shorter, nickel or dime shaped amount.


The shampoo bottle doesn't have a recommended amount to use on the bottle, they just hope you will think of their highly suds out commercial and use enough to make your own Mohawk.

Toothpaste - Toothpaste commercials again show us the way not to use toothpaste. That large amount of toothpaste looks really pretty on the brush, but is a waste. (If it all even makes it into your mouth and not onto the sink.) The dental association says, "Simply squeeze on a pea-sized dab of paste on the top half of your brush....the paste should foam enough to cover all of your teeth."

Toilet Paper - This subject can get kind of stinky with some people, such as when Sheryl Crow suggested we only use one square or even before that, Elaine from Seinfeld begged the person in the next stall to "spare a square".

But think about it, is it our goal to make the toilet paper into the size of a catcher's mitt in order to wipe. There isn't a square we can spare before we wash our hand's anyway? During World War II, it was rationed and you would only use a few squares of TP as your way to help the troops.

Water - It runs throughout the house, but doesn't have to run down the drain. There are 25 ways you save water and I have one way to save hot water in the shower, not including a low-flow shower head.

In the Laundry Room
Laundry Detergent - They give you a measured cup for the load size you are using, but do you have to use that amount? Based on responses over at the Dollar Strether, they say  to agree on ¼ to ½ of what the suggested amount is.

Hot Water - Using cold water cleans just as thoroughly as hot water and keeps your clothes in continued good shape and retain their color. Plus you don't have to wait for it to heat up. Then save the hot water to wash towels/linens and underwear to kill bacteria.

In the Kitchen
Boiling water - Just enough water to cover the food and a cover over the pan saves on heating water.

Dish Soap - If you do it by hand, a few dollups of soap are all that is needed. Most of the time you can have the pan soak while washing the other dishes and not have to use as much soap in getting the grime off.
For dishwasher detergent they have packets that can be used and if you compare that against the size of your compartment, you don't have to fill the compartment up - about 1-2 tablespoons.

Electricity - Using less electricity can be viewed the same as using a car to run errands, bundle it in one trip. That saves you the time to heat up for each item you want to cook each day. An already warm oven can allow you to move the food in and out faster, saving time.

This idea can be used for the dryer as well. An already warm dryer allows the 2nd batch of clothes to dry quicker because the dryer is not having to ramp up to the warmth needed.


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Free Chibi keychain with Okamiden pre-order from Capcom store

Capcom just won the Okamiden arms race. Whereas GameStop offers a pretty cute paintbrush stylus with pre-orders of the celestial DS adventure game, Capcom's own online store is offering ... this. A tiny plush Chibiterasu keychain, small enough for you to bring with you everywhere, forever, like the most convenient best friend ever.

We'll offer some free advice to other retailers: if you want any chance of attracting us away from this irresistible offer, you're going to have to take the loss and bundle a bigger Chibiterasu plush. It's a burden, we know, but if you want to succeed in this world, you have to give us really cute toys of baby Japanese wolf-gods.

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PatrikR replied to Fred Briggs's discussion 'APM mode problem'

PatrikR replied to Fred Briggs's discussion 'APM mode problem'
Thanks Chris for producing the video but it just shows exactly what I have been doing. I have also altered the first three positions of my 3-pos switch with a dual rate. But wether or not I use dual rates it still should work as long as the switch?

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