Billed as the smallest dice in the world, each one measures 0.3 x 0.3 x 0.3 mm (for perspective, see the photo above showing one of the die next to a 0.5-mm diameter mechanical pencil lead). The tiny dice are painstakingly crafted one by one from BsBm (brass) in a 9 hour long fabrication process that relies on the latest in micromachining technology. Each one weighs 0.00016 grams and the pips measure 0.05 mm in diameter.
Snakes On Stuff: Snakes on a Contest!
The people over at the Snakes on the Plane camp have been kind enough to give us a Snake kit to give away to one of our lucky readers. The Snake kit includes a Snakes on a Plane movie poster, t-shirt, iron on transfer book, and a mothaf$%&ing hat. Value $60. I will hopefully be getting a few of these Snake kits to give away, but so far I only have one. I will also be giving away some other Snakes on the Plane items (like Snakes on a Plane iPod skins and a Snakes on a Plane audiobook) to lucky readers. To enter the contest send us a picture of “snakes on stuff” to snakesonstuff@gmail.com. Be creative. We will randomly select the winner from all entries on August 27th.
Blotter is a new service from Dapper that graphs a blog’s popularity over time. The popularity statistics are gathered from Technorati using the Dapper service.
Pretty cool stuff. We’ll se how the chart changes with time.
An amazing greenland style kayak built out of found wood.
It was with uncertainty that I contemplated building a kayak with hand tools out of found wood. To help with the project I collaborated with Kiliii Yu, hunter, forager, and native skills expert. http://www.dancinghawk.com Together over the course of four days we constructed this kayak from wood we found on the beach and in the scrap piles of my wood shop.
Miles Kimball
At last-chess pieces with the rules for how they move printed right on them! Now everyone can play. You get a complete set of plastic chess pieces with printed-on rules for moving, chess board, and an instruction booklet, which you won’t need because the pieces are so clearly marked!
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