DIYs & Mods

Leaked Screenshots from World of Warcraft WotLK Alpha

� Seemingly verified through insider information, sources have confirmed that these screenshots have been leaked from the alpha testing phase of the World of Warcraft’s newest expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. The new expansion will add a new class, the first hero class, the Death Knight, to the WoW world, as well as a new profession called Inscription, new ...

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NES Controller Car Engine Mod: Just Another Attempt At Geek Cred

You might have your car’s interior and sound system down as far as geeky prowess goes, but what lurks under the hood? A standard engine just won’t do for my fellow car modding comrades, oh no! We need more! Better! Geekier! The owner of this car is such a huge fan of the NES console, that he modded a NES ...

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Album Cover Bento Lunches: OM NOM NOM

The friendly food hackers over at Obacchi Jacket Lunch Box have started selling custom-made Bento boxes, designed to resemble a selection of classic album covers. Some included are the Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland lunch, made with nori, paprika (red & orange), egg, rice, and the Kiss Destroyer lunch, made using egg, nori, ume (Japanese plum), kamaboko, rice. Hit the jump ...

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Using Your Ethernet Cables To Protect Your Country

Our United States are still at war. Maybe if we had lesson human soldiers on the front line, there’d be less controversy on the subject. What can you do to protect your country? If you have some extra CAT-5 cable lying around, you can make your very own CAT-5 soldiers. If you have enough wiring, maybe you could even make ...

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Body-Laptop Wooly Jumper Puts You In Your Own Little World

Distractions are everywhere. While there have been many attempts at providing us with our own personal space, many fall short, looking totally unpractical. The Body-Laptop Wooly Jumper is exactly one of those sort of creations. Mixing the ingenuity of the Glovers and the Office Collar, the Wooly Jumper attempts to create your own personal laptop force-field, at the expense of ...

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Geekify Your Car’s Audio System

If you sit around, rummaging through the internet all day, odds are that, like me, you can’t afford a sound system in your car which you can be proud of. Not that I listen to tunes with thumping bass anyway (don’t listen to him, yeah he does), but at least I can support my geeky ego with a self-modified system. ...

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Spongebob Cake Has Geometrically Inaccurate Square Pants

How big of a Spongebob fan are you or members of your family? Enough that you’d dedicate an entire event to the square pants-donning sea creature? Luckily for you, Spongebob’s rectangular shape makes him easy to integrate as a birthday cake design. Everyone loves cake. I mean, come on, yummylicious OM NOM, right? We can only hope that making your ...

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An Obama Of Our Own: Fold Your Own Candidate

Depending on your political affiliation, this site is now offering the three major contenders as downloadable and printable finger puppets. But really, shouldn’t it be the other way around? Shouldn’t they have finger puppets of us? Whether you are a McCain man, a Clintonite, or an Obama brotha, you can print out all three of the finger puppets and hold ...

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Running 150 Apps On A MacBook Pro At One Time

What would it look like if you were running 150 separate applications at once on a MacBook Pro, and is it even possible? Probably something like this. The owner of this 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro with 4 GB of RAM (the same notebook I have) claims that he can run all of his 150 applications at once, with the computer ...

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WoW Shaman Cake: Does William Shatner Like Chocolate?

Back in November, Blizzard released a slew of celebrity World Of Warcraft commercials, one of which starred William Shatner as the nature grasping Shaman. Oh sure, we’ve seen our share of gamer themed cakes, but this super-chocolaty cake showcases the Shaman symbol from the popular MMO. I don’t think Star Trek ever had a sweets-themed episode, but Shatner’s slight belly ...

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