Hand-crafted Easter bunnies, the science behind magnets, Twitter image tools, create your own headphones from scratch, snow tech, and trapeze is the new black.
The Founder/CEO of Instructables, Eric Wilhelm, creates noise-cancelling headphones in one minute!
Check out more awesome do-it-yourself projects with step-by-step instructions at instructables.com.
Rad Science:
Dr. Kiki dazzles us with the science behind everyday refrigerator magnets.
Read more about this and other sciencey things at Kiki's blog, kirstensanford.com
On the Prowl:
Sarah's finally learning to love Twitter with these handy image tools:
Twitxr: Twitter clone with photo uploading capabilities.
TwitterGram: Easy Flickr-to-Twitter post capabilities through tags.
DIY:
Sarah and Jessica discover handmade Easter bunnies for sale!
Etsy Store (username 'makeitawesome')
Sarah found it via Mighty Goods, a shopping blog by Maggie Mason.
Heather reaches new heights and takes on the flying trapeze.
Learn more about the art of this fear-defying fringe sport at highflyingabigail.com and the Trapeze School of New York .
Nerd Bird Neha heads up to the mountains to test out some snow gadgetry.
Gire TuneUps Wireless Kit - G10
Mammut PULSE Barryvox Avalanche Beacon
Garmin Rino 530HCx 2 way radio and GPS
Oregon Scientific ATC2K Action Helmet Camera
Bula Nano Earphone Bomber Stereohead
Expression of the Week:
"Drink Like a Fish" -- check out more word meanings and origins at phrases.org.uk.
Get more riveting misinformation, like "aibohphobia" or the fear of palindromes at the Wikipedia parody site, uncyclopedia.org.
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Posted by Dosbomber on 04/22/2008 at 06:34:26 pm in popSiren
Regarding the ATC2K camera, I'm pretty sure it uses a FAT16 file system, which limits the SD card to the 2 GB size. 2 GB gives me about an hour of recording time at 640 x 480.
What's great about this camera is its durability. This is a video of one of these cameras surviving a 1900 foot free-fall into a field when it disconnected from the body of one of those large-scale model rockets.
*link*
It's also small enough to mount practically anywhere. I have one mounted in the front grill of my car. It could be better with some sort of remote control, so I could switch it on from inside the car, but that's outside its design scope.
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Posted by Broph on 03/27/2008 at 02:08:35 pm in popSiren
While "DIY" is technically an abbreviation, it's a specific type, called an "initialism".
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Posted by Kronos6948 on 03/25/2008 at 03:16:49 pm in popSiren
"If you find what Jessica wears provocative:
a. Its been a long winter.
b. You must never watch TV. Not late night TV, not cable TV, not "my-mother-is-sleeping-with-my-boyfrien'-and-I-don-know-if-he-is-my-babies-daddy" TV ... just regular old TV. Even a morning show, or daytime talk show.
I say "down with androgyny". Women should look like women, not teenage boys."
A - Frickin - Men!!!
Here's what twobit's ideal TV image for women is:
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Posted by tokenuser on 03/25/2008 at 10:58:09 am in popSiren
"If you find what Jessica wears provocative:
a. Its been a long winter.
b. You must never watch TV. Not late night TV, not cable TV, not "my-mother-is-sleeping-with-my-boyfrien'-and-I-don-know-if-he-is-my-babies-daddy" TV ... just regular old TV. Even a morning show, or daytime talk show.
I say "down with androgyny". Women should look like women, not teenage boys.
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Posted by drummerian on 03/24/2008 at 09:59:24 am in popSiren
Woop, loved this episode and the whole show in general, making it another of my rev3 weeklys!
Anyway, when tunign in this weeki saw instructables was on i was excited, and, even more so (sad i know) to see one of my instractables was on the screenshots in the episode!!!
Thanks Girls!
check it out here:
*link*
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Posted by FanGirl on 03/23/2008 at 08:37:22 pm in popSiren
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Can we get manly man talking about NASCAR for a minute or two? That would be cool big props for at least having a couple of men in the shows...
-Rene"
What is up with the request for men to be on the show? This is a female dominated show. They can exclude the male gender if they want. The Absinthe interview though had a guy on it. And the if NASCAR was mentioned wouldn't it have to do with the technology used in stock car racing? And if my memory servers me right there are many other podcasts with manly men on them. There is probably one out there on the world wide web were some manly man is talking about NASCAR.
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Posted by Kronos6948 on 03/23/2008 at 11:37:00 am in popSiren
"Jessica, please stop showing us your breasts. I can't concentrate on anything but the forced cleavage that I have not interest in seeing during a podcast. If I want to look at breasts, I go to other places no the internet.
Sara's wear is appropriate I think. Just button a few more buttons please. It's not attractive.
-Twobit326"
Twobit, if you can't concentrate on the show because there's some cleavage on it, it's time to reign in your hormones. It's not like she's wearing pasties and a thong. Her clothing is acceptable even by TV standards.
Jessica, wear whatever you want. I think you look great. This isn't a newscast, so dressing a bit more fancy or provocative (although you still look classy) isn't such a big deal.
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Posted by ashgotti on 03/23/2008 at 11:08:12 am in popSiren
Good episode, I don't know if I liked the science segment on magnets. Feels too much like Bill Nye.
Like the hosts, Corbin FTW.
Oh and the production quality is one of the best on Rev3, good job.
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Posted by twobit326 on 03/22/2008 at 10:48:27 pm in popSiren
Jessica, please stop showing us your breasts. I can't concentrate on anything but the forced cleavage that I have not interest in seeing during a podcast. If I want to look at breasts, I go to other places no the internet.
Sara's wear is appropriate I think. Just button a few more buttons please. It's not attractive.
But the show is awesome! Look forward to the future.
-Twobit326
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Posted by chevmalfet on 03/22/2008 at 06:12:41 am in popSiren
Loving the new show guys, and an added bonus, a fan of Dr. Kirsten (listen to TwiS every week), so I'm happy to see her part of the show. I am feeling, a bit, like topics are akimbo. As time goes on it makes more sense, but I somehow feel like the show could be a bit more thematic, or maybe just better segues, or whatever. I mean, I get the DIY sense, but sometimes it doesn't seem to all fit together. Maybe more time on practical aspects of Kiki's demonstrations?
If I knew how to fix it, I'd probably have my own network.
Keep up the good work guys, just one aspect that stood out to me.
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