These are instructions for building a DIY tilt-shift lens.

CHDK is hacked firmware for Canon digital cameras that expand the cameras' range of features.

Here's a wiki that allows cyclists to create pages describing bicycle hacking projects.

Ever reliable, the bike snob mocks photos of Lance Armstrong riding a hacked-together tall bike at what appears to be art gallery Okay Mountain.

This is so geeky I'm a little scared.

BF Skinner invented crowdsourcing in 1944.

A web-based form that allows you to exploit a hole in the Gawker CMS and create your own posts.

Oh, how I wish someone had told me about this utility before. It uncripples the GPU on consumer-grade Apple hardware, allowing you span the screen across multiple displays and crank up the resolution beyond 1024x768.

Starbucks customers have found inventive ways to trim the prices of their beverages. I do, however, find the use of "ghetto" in this context very loaded and problematic.

A gag cover to put on issues of conservative opinion journal The Weekly Standard. It's interesting to see a mainstream publication engage in culture-jamming like this.

"Last Sunday, the IDF's Intelligence unit managed to hack into Hezbollah's Al-Manar television station and several Hezbollah websites."

A new technology enables users to test the relative neutrality of an ISP, opening the possibility of shaming telcos into operating neutral networks.

I might try building one of these the next time I see one of those folding steamer baskets at the thrift store.

I mentioned this at the Austin Bloggers Stammtisch last night, so I thought I would put it up here. This guy has created clusters of RGB LEDs to create lighting tones.

Austin finally has a Dorkbot chapter. It's first get-together is June 8th, which will have been yesterday by the time it hits this blog.

Cory Arcangel has created a page with Kurt Cobain's suicide note embedded with Google AdSense ads to see what the contextual algorithm will drop in the text. I had to whitelist AdSense in my Adblock extension for it to work.

This reminds me of Paul Slocum's band Treewave that makes music from dot-matrix printers. Maybe he could open at the first Roomba concert/cockfight.

Mainstream media coverage of the circuit-bending phenomenon.

Converts Greasemonkey user scripts into Firefox extensions.

Don pointed me to this little utility that allows you to scroll with old-school Mac track pads.

This has been posted everywhere, but making LED Throwies seems like a good time.

Analee Newitz discusses hacking Roombas for "cockfighting." I'm not sure if the last graf is pure humor or if she did want to make the point that many companies do regard hardware hacking as dangerous.

Modifying flatbed scanners for large-format photography.