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Simple garden lights made with LEDs and mason jars

August 20, 2008 10:33am

While I love LED throwies as well as these garden lights (their bucolic successors), I have to point out how wasteful these are.

A $1 CR2035 battery + a 49-cent LED in a jar is a lot more expense and a lot more chemical waste than, say, a tea-light ($4 for a bag of 100 at Ikea) in that same mason jar. Batteries (and non-rechargeable coin-batteries, at that) aren't so great to choose when there are much friendlier alternatives...

Steven Poole's book on the aesthetics of video games now a free download

January 15, 2008 5:57pm

Another great book on Video Games as Art is, well, "Video Game Art" by Nic Kelman. It uses the language of art and art-history to analyze the visual work that appears in some of the top video games.

Steven Poole's book on the aesthetics of video games now a free download

January 15, 2008 5:57pm

Another great book on Video Games as Art is, well, "Video Game Art" by Nic Kelman. It uses the language of art and art-history to analyze the visual work that appears in some of the top video games.

Sputnik turns 50, NYT science section pays homage

September 25, 2007 2:50pm

For a glimpse of what might be next in space (other than just retracing our steps on the moon) check out the new Discovery Channel Canada undertaking: http://www.racetomars.ca

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