Crafty Links

Crafty Stuff Galore!

• Mini Food and drink made out of polymer clay

Paper Engineering: Pop-ups, automata, mechanization, origami

• Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project, Inc.


• Handmade Papercraft Club


• Texana Collections Pop-ups with videos displaying pop-ups in books.


• Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Animated Books


• Paper Engineering Schools/Programs in the United States of America.


• Paper Forest: "Paper Forest" Demystified is a cool Blog with interesting links and illustration.


• Intervisual Communications is a company that prints pop-ups and lenticulars.


• Rubber Designs Paper Crafting has interesting rubber stamps and designs.


• Origami: Diagrams displays a variety of models with instructions.


• Walter Ruffler is a German designer with English translation.


• Automata and Mechanical toys


• Mechansims for use in mechanical toys and automata. Velocity ratios and levers introduced as a background to the theory behind simple mechanisms.


• Keith Newstead Automata


• Peter Callesen


• Flying Pig has paper animation kits. Cardboard Engineering Source book is here.


• Cabaret Mechanical Theatre - A Museum of Automata (mechanical sculpture)


• C.A.Furuti has globes to print and glue together to understand map projections.


• PaperPino automata models: circus, Santa, etc. Many free downloads.


• Martin Smith - artist with excellent metal kinetic sculptures. Coin art. This is the one that has the pigeon scupture at the train station.


• Heritage Models


• Origami Polyhedra


• Mechanics in German. Click Modellbau and then Speil & Unterhaltung.


• Paper Models You Make That Move


• Paper Kraft


• Inside-out movable sculpture from paper This is a flexahedron toy that flips inside-out from the center. Make science toys at home with common household materials.


• Geometric toys

Bookbinding

• Oak Knoll Books & Oak Knoll Press variety of bookbiding texts.


• Mystery of the Wire Loop


• MFA in the Book Arts/The University of Alabama


• Book Arts Web Bookbinding, scholarly works on books (everything from leather to pop ups)


• The Bonefolder, an e-journal for the bookbinder and book artist.

Amusing Links

Truly Amusing jokes, movie spoofs, funny commercials

• Wacky Web Site of the Week Archive List of strange and bizarre websites


• Scratch & Sniff Smell the digital roses


• Spode's Abode - Cardboard Box PC OK, this is absolutely ridiculous, but facinating!


• The Offical David Hasselhoff Site of Worship This is where to get that super cool Hoff Airplane!


• World School Photographs This is amazing! Find your school photo! I just can't believe how similar we all look


• Don't spend your life cleaning What this mother does in her tub cage


• Numa Numa Dance Dragonista din tea from OZone is the music for this great online video


• Karate Master at Kontraband Karate Master breaks things. In the background are performers dressed in black creating the "effects"


• Fake or Foto? Are they photographs or computer graphics?


• How to keep an idiot busy Try to press the button


• INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK ||| MONO*CRAFTS Cool online date/clock. The numbers change based on a pencil erasing and writing


• Knowing Jack Do you know Jack, or his wife?


• I want to A page of utilities that help you do stuff you want to


• PostSecret Postcards sent in with secrets


• InHomeGames All sorts of wood games. Carrom! Sarah's favorite game! It is $45 with free shipping.


• Anagram Generator that will produce combonations of words based on initial input


• Apostrophe cartoon How to use the apostrophe cartoon with the angry flower


• Binary- it's digitalicious! Binary code translator.


• Bird the Planet Kreg Ellzey's blog


• Colorado Digitization Program Content on human culture, science, and art


• Creative Commons Nonprofit org offering flexible copyright licenses for creative works


• Default Password List Lists default passwords for wireless network


• Document Definitions - La. State Land Office Online Documents What all those acronymns state for at the State Land Office


• German Sex Ed Where Babies Come From in Germany book that is geared toward children


• Google Code: Summer of Code Program designed to introduce students to the world of open source software development


• Grocery Store Wars | Join the Organic Rebellion Organic foods take on the Death Melon.


• Louisiana Studies in Historic Preservation MEd work


• Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial View Milk Way and move in to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida


• Playing with Time Gallery Browser


• Prankbot Send a university "no transcript" email to someone.


• Project Gutenberg Free books


• Retro Junk | Hey I remember that 80s TV, commercials, archives, etc.


• The International Hedgehog Association This cute little animal! The icons are pretty interesting, typified, but interesting. Love the hedgehog with the magnifying glass!


• The Official String Theory Web Site A bit over my head in some areas, but in others, way cool.


• What does your phone number spell? Type in your number and get the message


• World Sunlight Map What is being illuminated right now? This is a satalite image that gets updated quite frequently showing current sunlight and cloud cover.


• lettuce varieties


• Google Holiday Logos


• KINETIC ART ORGANIZATION


• Flying Spaghetti Monster


• Ambigrams, Logos, Word Art


• Yay Hooray! Absolutely, positively the best site on the internet!


• Directory of open access journals Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.


• English/Chinese Picture Dictionary


• How to Make a Book


• kelli connell


• National Sex Offender Registry


• vocabulary root/pre- & suf-fixes


• Shawna Atkins


• Autumn's blog


• Artichoke Anathema


• File identifier


• Chernobyl oral history


• Overcaffeinated


• The Onion


• BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Kitsch Christmas gifts


• Make Your Own Evil Plan

Truly Amusing

jokes, movie spoofs, funny commercials

• Wacky Web Site of the Week Archive List of strange and bizarre websites


• Scratch & Sniff Smell the digital roses


• Spode's Abode - Cardboard Box PC OK, this is absolutely ridiculous, but facinating!


• The Offical David Hasselhoff Site of Worship This is where to get that super cool Hoff Airplane!


• World School Photographs This is amazing! Find your school photo! I just can't believe how similar we all look


• Don't spend your life cleaning What this mother does in her tub cage


• Numa Numa Dance Dragonista din tea from OZone is the music for this great online video


• Karate Master at Kontraband Karate Master breaks things. In the background are performers dressed in black creating the "effects"


• Fake or Foto? Are they photographs or computer graphics?


• How to keep an idiot busy Try to press the button


• INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK ||| MONO*CRAFTS Cool online date/clock. The numbers change based on a pencil erasing and writing


• Knowing Jack Do you know Jack, or his wife?


• I want to A page of utilities that help you do stuff you want to


• PostSecret Postcards sent in with secrets


• InHomeGames All sorts of wood games. Carrom! Sarah's favorite game! It is $45 with free shipping.


• Anagram Generator that will produce combonations of words based on initial input


• Apostrophe cartoon How to use the apostrophe cartoon with the angry flower


• Binary- it's digitalicious! Binary code translator.


• Bird the Planet Kreg Ellzey's blog


• Colorado Digitization Program Content on human culture, science, and art


• Creative Commons Nonprofit org offering flexible copyright licenses for creative works


• Default Password List Lists default passwords for wireless network


• Document Definitions - La. State Land Office Online Documents What all those acronymns state for at the State Land Office


• German Sex Ed Where Babies Come From in Germany book that is geared toward children


• Google Code: Summer of Code Program designed to introduce students to the world of open source software development


• Grocery Store Wars | Join the Organic Rebellion Organic foods take on the Death Melon.


• Louisiana Studies in Historic Preservation MEd work


• Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial View Milk Way and move in to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida


• Playing with Time Gallery Browser


• Prankbot Send a university "no transcript" email to someone.


• Project Gutenberg Free books


• Retro Junk | Hey I remember that 80s TV, commercials, archives, etc.


• The International Hedgehog Association This cute little animal! The icons are pretty interesting, typified, but interesting. Love the hedgehog with the magnifying glass!


• The Official String Theory Web Site A bit over my head in some areas, but in others, way cool.


• What does your phone number spell? Type in your number and get the message


• World Sunlight Map What is being illuminated right now? This is a satalite image that gets updated quite frequently showing current sunlight and cloud cover.


• lettuce varieties


• Google Holiday Logos


• KINETIC ART ORGANIZATION


• Flying Spaghetti Monster


• Ambigrams, Logos, Word Art


• Yay Hooray! Absolutely, positively the best site on the internet!


• Directory of open access journals Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.


• English/Chinese Picture Dictionary


• How to Make a Book


• kelli connell


• National Sex Offender Registry


• vocabulary root/pre- & suf-fixes


• Shawna Atkins


• Autumn's blog


• Artichoke Anathema


• File identifier


• Chernobyl oral history


• Overcaffeinated


• The Onion


• BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Kitsch Christmas gifts


• Make Your Own Evil Plan

CSS & Firefox

The CSS is a bit difficult to deal with on this blog considering there are added line break tags in the automatic push from what I compose. Cie la vie.

Morning Coffee extension in Firefox is quite the thing! I have been configuring the Google front page with RSS feeds, but some pages cannot be added because they don't publish a feed. As such, I have been looking for something that I could use for my "daily dose sites." Morning Coffee might do the trick.

The other extensions I use are the tabbed browsing, Search Engine Ordering (got to remove some from that list!), ColorZilla, and Web Developer. Web Developer has been one of the most useful tools for CSS! I have learned alot using it.

PimpZilla is my theme of choice.

The artichoke.
Underrated.
Under appreciated.
Mis-understood.

No longer.

Mix it up in the kitchen.

The Olive Garden has their recipes online! The Steak Gorgonzola is awesome and the Spinach and Artichokes Dip is fabulous!