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Lifehacker’s Condensed Front Page View Now Live [Announcements]

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Posted by Gina Trapani from Lifehacker.

Things look different around here? They are! Welcome to our new condensed front page, which makes quickly scanning posts for the stuff you’re interested easier. That’s the hope, anyway.

This new layout packs more content onto the front page in less real estate—which means less scrolling on your part and more stories that stick to the front page longer (without breaking our bank on bandwidth bills). In the condensed view, you can skim our headlines for a pick-and-choose buffet approach to stories than reading through every item to get to the next.

We know, we know—change is hard. This makes us look more like Digg than a blog. We’re fishing for pageviews. We’re complete dunderheads who know nothing about designing user interface.

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Google Zeitgeist 2008 - Top 10 DIY searches…


Posted by Phillip Torrone from MAKE Magazine.
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The SPEAK VISUAL™ Contest at the NVIDIA® Modification Station with MAKE

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Posted by Phillip Torrone from MAKE Magazine.

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Ok gang, here is is our MODDING and ART contest! The SPEAK VISUAL™ Contest at the NVIDIA® Modification Station with MAKE!

Do you SPEAK VISUALTM? - Speak in pictures, movies, games and maps - with a graphics processor from NVIDIA® you can speak the one language that never needs translation - NVIDIA® has teamed up with MAKE and created the “Modification Station” a special section on MAKE that celebrates “SPEAK VISUALTM” - from PC mods to amazing motion graphics this section will have some of the most amazing mods and visuals you’ve ever experienced. But that’s not all - together, NVIDIA® and MAKE bring you the “SPEAK VISUALTM” contest.

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Gift cards for MAKE gift subscriptions


Posted by Phillip Torrone from MAKE Magazine.

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When I was a kid my grandmother gave me a subscription to World magazine, it was a kids version of National Geographic - I grew up in the middle of nowhere and we also didn’t have TV - each month I’d wait outside on the dirt road for the postal delivery of the magazine. It was magical, photos from far away places, simple how-tos of things I could make, puzzles, games - it was one of the best things I remember growing up. It’s safe to say I wouldn’t be working on MAKE if it wasn’t for that modest gift all those years.

When parents and grandparents talk to us at Maker Faire or send us emails we hear similar stories - they got their loved ones a year of MAKE and over a long summer the kids did projects from the magazine, took apart an old busted toy or discovered that science and how-to resourcefulness is a very fun.

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Lifehacker on CNBC Tonight! [Announcements]

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Posted by Gina Trapani from Lifehacker.

Set your TiVos, Lifehacker fans: our very own Adam will be on CNBC’s “On the Money” show tonight, talking about holiday timesavers.

Some guides say it airs at 9PM Eastern time, others 7PM Eastern, so make sure you check your local listings to see the Pashmaster rock Carmen Wong Ulrich’s socks off.


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MAKE Gift certificate


Posted by Phillip Torrone from MAKE Magazine.

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MAKE Gift certificates are available - Can’t decide what to get your favorite Maker, Crafter or Hacker? Give them a gift certificate good for anything from the Maker Shed with the amount you choose. And best yet, you can choose to email it to them and avoid those long postal deliveries. A great last minute present that could spark a lifetime of making.

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Meet Up at Add-On Con and Get $50 Off Registration [Announcements]


Posted by Gina Trapani from Lifehacker.

Gina here. I’m heading up to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on Thursday to attend Add-on-Con, a one-day get-together for browser extension enthusiasts. If you’re in the area, Mozilla has kindly offered $50 off the $150 registration fee for you: just use discount code “Lifehacker” to get the deal. Hope to see you there!


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HacDC/Dorkbot DC meeting: “Birthing Hyrda II”

Monday, December 8th, 2008
Posted by Gareth Branwyn from MAKE Magazine.
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This Tuesday, we’re going to be holding the second of our joint HacDC/Dorkbot DC meetings called “Birthing Hydra,” where we discuss ways that the various DC-area geek orgs can work together for out mutual benefit. The panel discussion will include myself and Alberto Gaitán, Nick Farr from HacDC, and Katie Bechtold from HacDC and Linux Chix. If you’re in town, we hope you can make it.

The Debut HacDC Tuesday Seminar Series
Birthing Hydra II: Building the DC Tech Community

When: Tuesday, 09 December 2008 @ 8:30 PM
Where: HacDC (St. Stephen & The Incarnation Church, 1525 Newton St NW,
Washington DC)
Cost: FREE

In our first Tuesday Seminar Series, Dorkbot DC overlords and brand
new HacDC Members Gareth Branwyn and Alberto Gaitán will join fellow
HacDC Members Katie Bechtold (DC Linux Chix) and Nick Farr
(hackerspaces.org) in a conversation on building the DC Tech
Community.

This is the first of a series of Tuesday Seminars designed to help
bring local geeks, dorks, makers and hackers closer together.

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DIY Halloween contest winners

Friday, December 5th, 2008
Posted by Phillip Torrone from MAKE Magazine.

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It’s almost time for the year end holidays but there’s one last bit of Halloween business to take care, the DIY Halloween contest winners! It took awhile to get through all these, there were HUNDREDS — Drum roll:::::::::::::::::

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Tech Grand Prize
The Magic Mirror - Arduino Powered

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Craft Grand Prize
Aliens Powerloader Halloween Costume

Check out the rest of the winners and congrats to the winning entries!

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Meet Dan! Associate publisher at MAKE!

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Posted by Phillip Torrone from MAKE Magazine.

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Meet Dan! He’s our associate publisher at MAKE and Magazine.org just did an interview with him -

Dan Woods is Associate Publisher for O’Reilly Media’s Maker Media Division, which includes MAKE: Magazine, makezine.com,book publishing unit MAKE: Books, e-tail site MakerShed.com, and Maker Faire, a live event targeting armchair MacGyvers and Ben Franklins. Before taking on that post almost five years ago, Woods served with the Sebastopol, California-based O’Reilly Media’s book unit for nearly two years.

Dan is one of those behind the scenes folks you’d don’t on the site that often who works hard everyday making what we do at MAKE possible.

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