DIY 3D printer utilizes hot air, sugar to craft random objects - Engadget Just when you thought a $5,000 3D printer wasn't such a bad deal after all, the zany gurus at the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have put Desktop Factory's iteration to shame. The CandyFab 4000 is a homegrown printer that utilized a bevy of miscellaneous spare parts around ( Read more... )

Desktop Factory to offer up $5,000 3D printer - Engadget

The New York Times article is here.

Remember two posts downwhen where I suggested that Second Life may become the AOL of virtual realities? Here's another post saying the same thing:

Techdirt: Will Second Life Be The AOL Of Online Virtual Worlds?Perhaps one way to think of it is that Second Life is similar to the early closed online services like Prodigy, AOL and Delphi. Eventually ( Read more... )

Good article on Why We Need an Open Source Second Life (from this article on LWN that unfortunately won't be available to non-subscribers until next week; some of the comments are worth reading).

The thing that made the web take off was that anyone could run a web server, and in fact anyone could write one. The underlying ( Read more... )