The commercial version of the ‘Steadicam’ has been around for a very long time, and has helped create many defining moments in popular cinema; many of us still remember the harrowing chase through the maze in Steven King’s ‘The Shining’ and the amazing way that the camera seemed to float behind the actors as they ran… one bent on murder, the other on survival. Read more at YB2Normal blog for the instructions. And one more DIY Steadi-Cam Version 5

As a student project Mathew Zurlinden designed a birdhouse made from a cinder block.

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Miss Frank E. Buttolph collected thousands of banquet menus between 1851 and 1930. Now, they’re online, thanks to the New York Public Library. Link

New Large (11×17) one sheet calendar Photoshop template. 2009 Link

ordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. Link

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The LEGO Digital er is a free application (Windows or Mac) that lets you play with LEGOs on your computer. I’ve just played with it a little, but it’s pretty awesome. You can rotate your models in 3D space, and the application features 762 unique bricks to build with.

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