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Wingnuts at their best

[Sean Hannity on Fox TV](http://mediamatters.org/items/200711010008): > Halloween is a liberal holiday [...] teaching our kids to be liberals. [W]e're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and…

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Making two screens work

[Some advice for people lucky enough to have two monitors on their PC](http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/make-the-most-of-your-dual-monitors-317479.php). I've had a two screen setup at work for a year or so now. It's…

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It takes guts

[Plush entrails](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/02/plush-guts-entrails.html). These would go great with the [plush microbes](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/6708/\).

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Bringing back Steampunk

[A steampunk laptop](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/steampunk/steampunk-laptop-reminds-us-why-steampunk-is-cool-318191.php). Attention [Jony Ive](http://www.apple.com/ipod/).

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Worst. Propaganda. Ever.

[Donny the Downloader](http://www.reason.com/blog/show/123300.html). Explains the dangers of file sharing in a way normally associated with Troy McClure.

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Election07: US Drinking Age edition

*Announcements*: None I could find. *Polls*: [Newspoll survey of marginals](http://www.pollbludger.com/670) implies a 24 seat swing to the ALP. *Line of the day*: Geoffrey Rush, [when asked "what do…

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Another weekend project

[How to build your own Dalek](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/dalek_builders_manual.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890) Probably not that hard to beat the original Dr Who's production values here...

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A clock for the millenia

[A 1000 year Forest Clock](http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/11/1000-year-forest-clock-tiwalkme.html). The aims of this project are the kind of thing that make me rest my head in my hands, but it'd be cool…

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Open Source Hardware

[Bug Labs make open source hardware that you can link together like Lego](http://www.buglabs.net/). I'd love to play with this stuff. It looks really cool and it's a clever…

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Space sounds

[NASA has released several sound files from Saturn](http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/sounds/). Cool in concept, sound a bit like static in realisation.

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