At Gary Brawer Guitar Repair they collect all the strings they remove from guitars they repair for reycling. Seeing them curled around in the box reminded me of the spiral tracks left in cloud chambers by decaying particles.

These night shots show my friend Eddie Adams playing with an illuminated parasol.  This was at a fabulous campout with a bunch of friends this last weekend.
The parasol was made by Michael Ang.  Eddie has her own blog.

Use super glue and baking soda to make a tough patch for plastic.

Via Boing Boing Gadgets, these are LED spray cans by the French artist Aissa Logerot, a project he calls Halo.
I think these are especially awesome because they’re a better execution of my own LED spray cans I built for the 2006 Burning Man project, “The Ephemeral Graffiti Wall.”  I built this project with my friends [...]

It is mildly irritating that ctrl-w means “paste” in emacs, but it means “close window” in virtually any other application, or in Firefox, “close tab.”