Link roundup
Jul. 24th, 2006 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosLook, a real American newspaper review of "Life on Mars!" Tim Goodman gives it a little-man-standing-up-in-his-chair-and-clapping, and says "Ultimately, what works best is the entire thing." A really strong statement for a print media critic. Available here; the review spoils some of the plot premise. If you're wondering why this link is here, it's because I think "Life on Mars" rocks.
The Rock Paper Scissors Collective in Oakland, California appears to run the most fabulous arts and crafts classes EVER, and they're all inexpensive. For example, on July 26th, "learn how to make silkscreen prints using your favorite photo image." For a five to ten dollar materials fee. FIVE to TEN dollars. July 30th and 31st, take a two-day course on hardcover bookbinding... for $10 materials fee and a sliding scale $0-10 donation to the collective. There are free courses on using industrial sewing machines, on bike mechanics, "the ancient art of mixtape making," and so on. Very cool.
And, speaking of crafts, this fabulous picture tutorial showing you how to make book-based bookshelves of your very own so's to avoid paying Jim Rosenau $220 for his book bookshelves. (The photo tutorial link is from a craftster post, here. The original poster said: "No book actually worth reading has been harmed in the making of this project.")
Platial.com, a picture-based googlemaps mashup. Platial lets you map places with tags, pictures, text, blahblah et cetera, but what's even more cool is that you can then organize said tagged places into maps. So you can make a map that you share with your friends of the best ice cream places in Manhattan, or document your road trip, or whatever. (My map-with-one-thing-on-it is here.)
The Rock Paper Scissors Collective in Oakland, California appears to run the most fabulous arts and crafts classes EVER, and they're all inexpensive. For example, on July 26th, "learn how to make silkscreen prints using your favorite photo image." For a five to ten dollar materials fee. FIVE to TEN dollars. July 30th and 31st, take a two-day course on hardcover bookbinding... for $10 materials fee and a sliding scale $0-10 donation to the collective. There are free courses on using industrial sewing machines, on bike mechanics, "the ancient art of mixtape making," and so on. Very cool.
And, speaking of crafts, this fabulous picture tutorial showing you how to make book-based bookshelves of your very own so's to avoid paying Jim Rosenau $220 for his book bookshelves. (The photo tutorial link is from a craftster post, here. The original poster said: "No book actually worth reading has been harmed in the making of this project.")
Platial.com, a picture-based googlemaps mashup. Platial lets you map places with tags, pictures, text, blahblah et cetera, but what's even more cool is that you can then organize said tagged places into maps. So you can make a map that you share with your friends of the best ice cream places in Manhattan, or document your road trip, or whatever. (My map-with-one-thing-on-it is here.)
