Tiny monuments to geekiness: nerdy terrarium ideas
Offbeat Bride has a post up today that made my heart pitter patter: itty bitty dioramas of nerdy scenes.
Will future homes be open source and Creative Commons-licensed?
I am so in love with open source solutions, but I’m used to free, group-edited projects being relegated to the tech world: Gooogle plugins for my Gmail and Chrome, Wikipedia…the number of ways humans have found to work together to improve our world is astounding and effing impressive. Could you imagine what Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, would think of the accumulation of information that is Wikipedia?!
It seems that the trend is breaking into the real world. Enter The Ekinoid Project: an open-source plan for housing based in the UK.
Throw this party: A Nerdy Thirty birthday party
About two weeks before my 30th birthday, someone reminded me that my “dirty thirty” was coming up soon. To which Aaron, that guy I married, responded: “With Megan, it’s more like her nerdy thirty.” And thus, a theme was born!
This is how I pulled off one hell of an awesome Nerdy Thirty birthday theme with only two weeks to plan, and with a little help from my friends.
From dining room to Questing Lounge: how to make a customizable table top-game board
A couple of weeks ago, my friends and I created an adventuring party to start playing Dungeons and Dragons 4.0. We all got together one night and played using some miniatures harvested from HeroClix and a tiny map from a Lord of the Rings tactical fighting game.
While the first experience was awesome (we made those skeletons PAY!), we realized we needed more than one map if we ever wanted to adventure anywhere else. None of us has the money to dump into buying thousands of maps or printing them off. We needed a cheap and reusable playing surface.
5 recipes for a Game of Thrones-style Thanksgiving feast
I love the niche cooking blog Inn at the Crossroads. I just love reading each weird new recipe IatC puts out. This Thanksgiving I’m going to try to make at least one of their Game of Thrones dishes for a warm and hearthy feeling, but it would be so easy to put together an entire menu. Here are my picks.
To earn your cat nerd cred, you’ve gotta know the three types of cats
The blog I talk about the most is definitely Way of Cats. Because I am a cat lady. CAT PEOPLE: you will love nerding OUT about the minds of cats, so start with this post about the three types of cats.
Tricks and treats: Make Star Wars Ouija boards and apple cinnamon vodka
Let’s get in the Halloween spirit with a look at two awesome photos from the Offbeat Home Flickr group… Make yourself some apple cinnamon vodka, and call up the Star Wars spirits!
Make yourself a bowl of honey spiced crickets
Sariann and Chelsea are two big fans of George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series. They are also fans of food. They combine their interests in their unusual cooking blog, Inn at the Crossroads. Here’s their post about a tasty-sounding spiced locust!