Hasta La Gadget!

Pinterest stress sufferers, rejoice! The projects in Mike Adamick’s new craft collection, Dad’s Book of Awesome Projects, aren’t designed for experts — just families who want some good, clean possibly quite messy fun.

Adamick, a thoughtful blogger and devoted dad to his daughter, Emmeline, shares tutorials for crafts ranging from the relatively easy (homemade Play-Doh) to the more ambitious (a backyard swing set). His inspiration? As he writes in the book: “I’m just some stay-at-home dad who became obsessed and overjoyed at the prospect of working with my daughter to make our own fun around the house.”

Here are two projects from the book that we look forward to trying ourselves. And if you can’t get to them this weekend, don’t worry — you have the whole summer ahead of you!

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NASA has revealed that its Hubble Space Telescope made a new discovery: evidence of a planet forming at a record distance from its star, something that – if proven to be true – could then shake up current theories regarding planets and their formation. The discovery was made in the Hydra the Sea Serpent constellation.

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I’m pretty sure having students play their heinies like bongos for the enjoyment of their instructor is illegal in at least 15 states, regardless of the lesson plan. And let’s not even get into the desk licking, or the bra tearing, or the riding crops *shudder*

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Earlier this week, companies began to seek permission to release the number of government data requests it receives, something that was kicked off by Google with a letter it made public on one of its blogs. It has only been a couple days, but permission has been granted, and both Facebook and Microsoft have posted

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Project Loon's network of balloon communicate with special ground stations.

(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET)

Google has officially announced “Project Loon,” its plan to connect the entire world to the Internet that uses a decidedly 19th century technology: Balloons.

According to a post on the official company blog:

We believe that it might actually be possible to build a ring of balloons, flying around the globe on the stratospheric winds, that provides Internet access to the earth below. It’s very early days, but we’ve built a system that uses balloons, carried by the wind at altitudes twice as high as commercial planes, to beam Internet access to the ground at speeds similar to today’s 3G networks or faster.

Google says it hopes the floating network could be used to connect remote, rural and underserved areas, something I personally would appreciate greatly, although I don’t imagine my neighborhood would be at the top of Google’s list to target with Project Loon. The name itself comes from Google’s own acknowledgment that the plan sounds a bit crazy… like a loon, some might say.

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