Glow sticks plus construction paper plus a dark setting: Recently I saw a couple of crafty articles flow across my RSS newsreader that involved making creepy glowing halloween eyes by using glow sticks and empty toilet paper tubes. I thought it was a cool idea, but saw three fundamental flaws in those designs. 1. “It … Continue reading Eerie glow stick halloween eyes
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The geometry of butter
BrianEnigma: Oregon has crappy butter geometry. I tweeted that earlier tonight and expect some amount of confusion. Sticks of butter across the country all have the same volume. You go to the store, you buy 16oz of butter, and you get four sticks of 4oz. In the rest of the country, the sticks are long … Continue reading The geometry of butter