I enjoy some basic origami birds that can flap their wings as much as the next guy, but check out this how-to origami gallery of insane projects. The Sea Urchin?! The Octopus?! The Rickshaw?! I have no idea how they did half of these. [via red ferret]
posted by mathowie on Nov 11, 2004 - 15 comments

I don't think anyone would ever actually do this, but MS has released instructions on how to uninstall Linux and install WindowsNT/2000 over it.
posted by mathowie on Dec 22, 1999 - 0 comments

Weeno is another new site meant to share information between readers and anyone who feels like writing an article. The current articles tend towards the slightly wacky, with my favorite being this article on how to buy movie tickets over the phone cheaply.
posted by mathowie on Oct 22, 1999 - 0 comments

Finally, someone sat and wrote down the rules to yelling Shotgun! When I was in high school, only one of my friends had a car and we developed our own intricate set of rules of when you can or can't legally yell Shotgun! and expect to get the front seat. The shotgunrules.com site is more in depth than anything we ever came up with though.
posted by mathowie on Oct 7, 1999 - 0 comments