tweaks the limbs

• Amazon Filler Item Finder
  (tags: amazon shopping tools)

moar funny pictures

• riotclitshave @ 2008-06-09T23:03:00
  (tags: images gorilladaddy)
• Frankfurt
  not what you’re expecting
  (tags: crafts)
• Bleach KON Arm Crossed Sitting Pose Plush
  boy I’d like to have one of these. Kon is hilarious.
  (tags: bleach anime plush toys)

• Brushbots, Paint Brushes with a mind of their own
  Maker and machine collaborate to produce art
  (tags: art electronics toys)
• FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts
  (tags: design font software internet)
• how to make a repeating pattern
  draw, cut, tape, cut, tape, draw, done.
  (tags: crafts graphics howto illustration)
• Mistake-Proofing: Designing Errors Out
  by Richard B. Chase, Douglas M. Stewart. “A concise introduction to the concepts of Mistake-proofing or “poka-yoke,” the quality improvement tool of choice in the Toyota production System. This is a great first book on this topic and a short read”
  (tags: books design howto)
• Drop.io: Simple Private File Exchange
  (tags: data free internet utilities)

Jack Handey’s Flag by eroosey

Instigated by a call to action at Boingboing and inspired by a Jack Handey column in the New Yorker, it’s Jack Handey’s Flag. The Flickr page has oodles of notes to help you decipher the symbols.

btw there are other attempts at drawing the flag but they’re no nearly as good.

These screen printed pillow kits remind me of a Snoopy stuffed animal/pillow I had as a kid. Snoopy was my buddy at bedtime.

Egg Press

Here are a couple things that happened on my birthday:

1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.

1977 - Alice Cooper’s pet boa constrictor was bitten by a rat it was trying to eat, and died.

via

• Build: Make a Boarduino
  (tags: diy electronics projects arduino)
• Massive & free sound sample libray
  Made available by the OLPC group this heaping helping(>10GB!) of audio samples is free
  (tags: sound audio)
• Bat House Construction and Placement
  BCI’s Bat House Project can help you select (or build) and install successful bat houses. We have analyzed more than 10 years of data from thousands of volunteer Research Associates to determine the most effective ways to attract bats to your bat house.
  (tags: diy animals garden bats pests)
• Inspect the roof on this sucka
  Most roof damage occurs before anyone at ground level notices it. To help prevent the common ‘out of sight, out mind’ pitfall, homeowners should conduct a simple roof checkup twice a year, and at least once following the end of an inclement winter season
  (tags: homemaking maintenance)
• HOW TO - Make a Zigzag pop-up
  (tags: papercraft howto)
• Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area - Los Angeles Times
  The activists see themselves as 21st century Johnny Appleseeds, harvesting a natural bounty of daffodils or organic green beans from forgotten dirt.
  (tags: community environment gardening)
• Expanded Beard Type Chart
  Friendly muttonchops, indeed!
  (tags: beards reference)
• Sewing Stars: eat your vegetables!
  rooty bottoms
  (tags: cute plush toys)
• Visio Word Balloon Shape
  for adding comic relief to your staid diagrams and charts
  (tags: visio diagrams comics)
• Build Hidden Compartments into Wooden Drawers
  (tags: projects)
• How to make a tire swing
  (tags: projects yard play)

A few days ago, I read about finding similar users on del.icio.us using a python script. So I downloaded Python and ran the script.  I got the list below as my output.

blair kelly illustration