Global Spin

Ok, this makes my pagan heart happy: my friend Raven has opened a new store in Madison, WI called Ravenworks. It features lots of pretty, pretty, shiny and happy one-of-a-kind, hand made things for everyday use, ritual, whatever. Also, books and music — including Legacy!.

Posted by Deb in Books, Holiday! Celebrate!, Making Stuff, Religion, Shameless Promotion, Shopping on December 19th, 2007 | Comments Off

I recently made a few calling cards for use at the Mars Society convention. I kinda like them, and they come in handy when I want to encourage random people to go to Global Spin: Anyone interested in one of their own? I’d be happy to make up a PDF with your name and globalspin.com [...]

Posted by Chris in Blog, Making Stuff on October 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »

(A kind of unicorn chaser, yes.) If you liked the idea of writing a novel in a month, what do you think of writing, recording, and editing an entire album in a month? Better yet, how about doing it in the shortest month of the year? The RPM Challenge is to record 35 minutes of [...]

Posted by Chris in Fun, Making Stuff, Music, NaNoWriMo on February 12th, 2007 | Comments Off

(Author’s note: Chris Messina implored us to blog about Mash Pit. I didn’t want to just parrot other excellent posts, so here’s my demented version of the event.) Four thirty. A.M., as in oh-dark-thirty. Ben and Karen will be asleep for another three hours. Uh huh. Why am I up this early? Because I have [...]

Posted by Chris in Making Stuff, Technology, Travel, Web 2.0 on January 25th, 2006 | Comments Off

Now _that’s_ what I’m talkin’ about! I usually don’t go for over-the-top home technology projects, but the Jenkins Family Theater has serious panache. You have to give people credit when they’re willing to work hard to make something so crazy. (At least I do, with the ideas I have…)

Posted by Chris in Film, Fun, Making Stuff on April 25th, 2005 | 1 Comment »