http://www.juniormadscientist.com startling stories for all ages Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:25:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en click here for full size image Tinwerks is a Chicago-based company that does ground-up design and manufacture of metal boxes. Chances are that if your special edition DVD boxed set, candy, gum, food, toys, or cigars came in an uber-cool tin, these guys did it. Now that I think about it, ... http://www.juniormadscientist.com/2010/07/09/happy-holidays-part-1/ click to download (638kb) In just under the wire! Print, color and have a Happy Father's Day. I know I will. Peace. (special thanks to Bruce Lee , a.k.a., Loston Wallace, over at the PencilJack forum for the Kirby Krackle tutorial. YOU GO NOW. DO IT.) http://www.juniormadscientist.com/2010/06/18/activity-sheet-fathers-day/ Why didn't anybody tell me it's National Artisan Gelato Month? Guess I'd have to be on one of the privacy-abusing social networking sites to get that kind of up-to-date info. Well, it's a small price to pay for keeping my business mine and not fodder for trolls, sell-outs, busybodies, and ... http://www.juniormadscientist.com/2010/05/19/national-gelato-month/ (click here to download .PDF, 868kb) Here's the Mother's Day activity sheet for the Hilton Chicago/Indian Lakes in beautiful Bloomingdale, IL. It was a big hit with the kids, and the grown-ups, too --- so much so that they ran out of copies to hand out. Note to self: bigger print ... http://www.juniormadscientist.com/2010/05/13/mothers-day-activity-sheet/ (click here for full image) Somebody help me out here. This guy, deg, AKA, "Douglas Graves", has been doing 3D modeling for, I don't know, a couple of weeks, maybe. He somehow got my email address and keeps sending me these updates of his work. It's pretty and all, but it's ... http://www.juniormadscientist.com/2010/05/13/deg3dbiz-3d-modeling-get-this-guy-a-job/ Here's something you don't see every day: a blog entry that is password protected but the writer gives away the password. ?!???! The reason is that the other post has some language and ideas that don't exactly pass the "all ages" litmus test. It's nothing too bad, just kind of shocking ... http://www.juniormadscientist.com/2010/05/10/password-for-kick-ass-and-the-hopeless-stupidity-of-american-moviegoers/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://www.juniormadscientist.com/2010/05/10/kick-ass-and-the-hopless-stupidity-of-american-moviegoers/ For The Win covers, UK (left) and US (right) If I'm reading the press info correctly, BoingBoing editor and author Cory Doctorow will be kicking-off his latest tour at our very own Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, IL. He'll be there on Wednesday, May 12th starting at 7PM. (Address below). My review ... http://www.juniormadscientist.com/2010/05/05/cory-doctorow-launches-new-book-tour-andersons-naperville/ Thanks to Webmaster MIKE and whatever voodoo he worked the other day. Since then, Wordpress has been catching spam like dolphins in a tuna net. The only exception so far is an advert for a "russian roulette online game" [sic]. Wasn't there a version of that in one of the ... http://www.juniormadscientist.com/2010/04/30/comments-are-go-really/ Webmaster MIKE tells me he's been teaching himself a few things about Wordpress --- specifically about how to block the hurricane of spam breaking down my levies and flooding my parish. (Too soon?) This morning he gave me the go-ahead to reactivate comments. So: Gentlemen, Start Your Blather! http://www.juniormadscientist.com/2010/04/22/comments-are-go-again-for-now/