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Bright Idea Shade from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo.

 The Bright Idea Shade is a project of the Eyebeam OpenLab, by Sustainability Action Group members Michael Mandiberg and Steve Lambert, with Simon Jolly, Peter Duyan, and Oscar Torres.
We are converting all of our silver tipped incandescent bulbs into CFL
bulbs (as they burn out.) The problem is a bare CFL bulb gives off
harsh light that sometimes prevents people from making the change. So
we set about designing a lampshade for the bulbs. We started with the Universal Polygon Lampshade
and made it fit a CFL bulb, built it out of heat resistant photo
diffuser material (found a diffuser material that could be laser cut,
and built a laser cutter template.)

• See the Instructable
• video on youtube
• Check out the images on flickr

Steal this idea:

The Bright Idea Shade is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution license.
Our goal is to get these kits into the hands of decision makers at
retailers and manufacturers like Target, Walmart, Kmart, Ikea, Home
Depot, Bed Bath And Beyond, etc. We have no interest in doing the long
term manufacture & distribution of this project. We are not
business people. The promise of the CC-BY license is that it can go out
in the world and be reproduce by others who have much better
distribution channels and manufacturing expertise.

Originally posted by Michael Mandiberg from Michael Mandiberg’s blog, ReBlogged by Addie Wagenknecht on Aug 19, 2008 at 11:13 PM

(Via Eyebeam reBlog.)

scribeFire is a nice plugin for firefox that allows you to post to your blog directly from the browser window.

Strap this optical mouse made by Logisys onto your index finger and use the 800 dpi laser on any media (except reflective glass surfaces) to easily control the cursor. The desk, keyboard, wall, even your own clothes will work as a functioning surface. Even more convenient, the scroll wheel and left and right buttons are easily usable with your thumb to scroll and click through your applications. The next step is losing the USB cable it uses to connect and going wireless.

Pick it up from Xoxide or visit Logisys to find a different online retailer selling the finger mouse for around $20.

Originally posted by Tim Yu from Cool Hunting, ReBlogged by Leon Reid on Feb 28, 2007 at 08:14 PM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on February 28, 2007, 7:14pm

Change the Screen Properties from the CLI

What syntax would I use to change the color depth of the display/monitor either in an Applescript on OS 10.4 OR via command line (defaults write maybe) ?

ef=”/gspot/2006-12/change_the_screen_properties_from_the_cli”>Read the answer…

(it’s a simple CLI app called cscreen, but read the rest of the article for the longer answer!).

(Via Mac Geekery - Get your geek on..)

Originally by SteamSHIFT from SteamSHIFT on January 2, 2007, 7:12am

Presenting Version 1.3 of my Wordpress Category Cloud widget. This one is compatible with Wordpress 2.1 (use Category Cloud Widget Version 1.2 for earlier versions of Wordpress). As before, the credit goes to sw-guide.de for the original Category Tagging plugin on which this is based; and also Alex for getting a version of this running under 2.1.

NB: Unlike Alex’s version, this widget is self contained and does not require the Category Tagging plug-in.

SteamSHIFT out.

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Originally by SteamSHIFT from SteamSHIFT on February 14, 2007, 6:26am