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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u2014 1 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n Sorry for a delay in posting and responding to comments. \u00a0Halloween fast approaches, and I\u2019ve been spending pretty much all my spare time with my sewing machine, trying to finish a costume in time. \u00a0It\u2019s cyberpunk themed, and I\u2019ll tell you I got two of the patterns I\u2019m using from here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n It turns out I\u2019m not even the only one of my friends doing a neo-victorian take on cyberpunk, since one friend of mine is going as the protagonist from Neal Stephenson\u2019s The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady\u2019s Illustrated Primer<\/a><\/em>, which is definitely my favorite Stephenson. \u00a0As I continue to hem, it seemed like a good week for mad science links.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u2014 2 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n And I have to kick it off with this clarifying comic from Cowbirds in Love<\/a>:<\/p>\n <\/a>\u2014 3 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n If you want your children to grow up like that fine gentlemen, start them out right. \u00a0Buy them crayons that are labelled with the chemicals<\/a> that colored them instead of Crayola\u2019s names.<\/p>\n P.S. I have never encountered the label \u2018burnt sienna\u2019 anywhere but a crayon box.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u2014 4 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n A mad\u00a0scientist\u00a0needs powerful tools to take over the world. \u00a0Few turn their creative insanity back on those tools, to make them bizarre, innovative\u00a0spectacles in their own right. \u00a0So I\u2019m going to give a lot of credit to folks at Sawstop<\/a> who invented a table saw that stops moving the microsecond it detects a finger in its path. \u00a0Watch the video and be prepared to flinch.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n