All Your Base R Belong to Swedes

Two great tastes that ... well, you know the rest. For devotees of the cult of IKEA, fans of DIY, and of modern craftiness of the make variety, it turns out there is a website called IKEA Hacker which, while it sadly does not seem informative on the question of how to make your couch into a regionless DVD player, does have links to all sorts of projects for modifying IKEA products for kewl uses. Just in case you need to turn your teddy bear into an articulated platform for your webcam, say. Or want to create a sliding cabinet / secret entrance to your bathroom.

While at IKEA Hacker, I also discovered the very fabulous Modern in MN -- not really my design sensibility, but chockfull of good DIY information that's actually applicable to home improvement projects of all sorts, even ones not aimed at replicating the Bauhaus in four-part harmony. Strangely, home improvement has been on my mind lately. Mmmmmmmmm. Power tools.