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Blog it Yourself · 1Y ago

New Edition of Mushroom “Bible” In The Works

At the recent Fungus Fair in Santa Cruz, celebrated author David Arora announced he is in the process of revising Mushrooms Dymystified, known to mycologists and other fungi enthusiasts as the definitive text for mushroom identification. Presenting at the fair, Arora mentioned offhand his progress w
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Blog it Yourself · 1Y ago

Behold the Gamelatron

The Maker Faire festival is a mecca for inventions, arts and crafts in a kind-of re-imagined county fair.  Organized by the staff of the magazines Make and Craft, the Faire tries to inspire attendees to roll up their sleeves and become makers themselves.  I traveled to the recent Faire that took pla
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Blog it Yourself · 1Y ago

Brew it Yourself: Part 1

I used to hate beer.  Most Americans experience beer and alcoholic beverages as a rite of passage into adulthood, but I refused to follow the crowd.  Despite their fowl taste, most of us are introduced to beer through the cheapest, most processed versions available.  I remember someone once explaini
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Blog it Yourself · 1Y ago

Wikipedia Stands Up to FBI’s Take Down Notice

As reported in the New York Times, the widely popular collaborative information website known as Wikipedia has been threatened with prosecution if it does not remove the FBI seal from the site’s pages.  The Wikimedia Foundation – the nonprofit charitable organization that runs Wikipedia – wrote back
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Blog it Yourself · 1Y ago

DIY in 2009

Its a bit late, but in preparation for the 1st issue of my new zine, DIY 2010, I’ve been compiling a list of notable events from 2009.  Is there something important to DIY culture that you don’t see here?  Let me know! January New device uses laser beams to project your own lane from the [...]
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Blog it Yourself · 2Y ago

Fashion at the Maker Faire

Half the fun at this weekend’s Maker Faire in San Mateo was checking out all the funky outfits. While the steampunk crowd was out in full force, there were many other unique styles on display – many of them handmade by the attendees. For many makers, form and function can collide, like in the utilit
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Blog it Yourself · 2Y ago

Don’t Know Much About Mycology

How many types of mushrooms can you name?  Unfortunately, for most of us, our knowledge is limited to what the grocery store can offer – usually three or four commercial varieties.  Yet, nature offers hundreds of species – many of them edible, and some of the best available in the Pacific Northwest.
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Blog it Yourself · 2Y ago

Plant Medicine vs. Swine Flu

So I seem to have picked up the Swine Flu.  And yes, I am calling it that, and not H1N1, after learning that the virus has been traced back to factory farms in the United States (and subsidiaries in Mexico) and that the hog industry lobbied for the much-harder to say jumble of letters and [...]
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Blog it Yourself · 2Y ago

Book Your Own Fuckin’ Life #1

While cataloging zines at the Independent Publishing Resource Center recently, I came along a pristine copy of Book Your Own Fuckin’ Life #1, printed in 1992.  While punk culture and the DIY movement was solidly established by this time, the founding edition of BYOFL can be seen as an achievement th
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Blog it Yourself · 2Y ago

Oakland’s Art Murmur

The Art Murmur is Oakland’s version of Portland’s Last Thursday. Just as DIY, 90% smaller, but a great spectacle among the grittiness of downtown Oakland. It’s on a small street, with several art galleries, a neighborhood coffee shop called Mama Buzz, a bar off to the side, and one of the best volun
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