Making snowflakes as a kid is one of the best memories I have as a tradition during the Holiday Season, I like being crafty and making any type of art that I can hang puts a smile on my face. That is why learning how I can turn what use to be an ordinary snowflake into one that replicates that of a Star Wars character or figure is one craft I am yearning to learn. …

Personalization is what brings true character to any room, the accents we choose to accentuate furniture pieces is what differentiates it from the warehouse. We choose other people’s creative touches to transform a room into the style that represents us best. …

In the war against zombies, the humans might be losing, but “The Avalaunche” might help sway the tide back into our favor, assuming all other weapon choices are exhausted. This bad boy packs the punch of a 20 mm steel ball — six of them, I might add, which fire at the same time. It’s sure to cause some serious damage to anything that stands in its path. So get out of the way!…

Somewhere between DIY and iPad sits this hacked Insignia Infocast. The Infocast is a strange beast to begin with – little more than a digital frame on steroids, the thing surprisingly packs an 800MHz processor, 2 gigs of memory, a touchscreen, Wi-Fi, and two USB ports. And it’s only $170 bucks. Really, it’s the perfect candidate for someone to hack open and mod the Chumby Linux inside. And, of course, that’s exactly what’s been done. By tweaking the device to run a WebKit-based browser, the savvy hackers have transformed the device into not-quite-an-iPad. But for $170 bucks, I’m sure not complaining….

Hey, remember the new Commodore 64 that suddenly rose from the ashes earlier this year? This is just about the same thing, only less ugly. Alright, maybe that’s unfair. This isn’t the belle of the ball, either. Held together with masking tape, the MacBook Air Project is the Frankensteinian result of what happens when you mash a MacBook Air, oldschool Apple keyboard casing, and wireless keyboard/Magic Trackpad combo together. It could be sexier, but it’s fully operational, and that is nothing if not mondo. “According to geekbench it will give a dual G5 powermac a run for its money…for whatever…

You’ve gotta hand it to those who are holding out for white iPhones. There’s something to be said about the degree of willpower required to remain completely uncool until the end of the month, when Apple will finally release the fairer-coloured device into the wild, where it will no doubt be torn to pieces by frothing Applites – some of whom will probably already own the damn thing in black. Don’t give me that look. They know who they are. You don’t have that sort of willpower, of course. You’re weak – but you have really steady hands. Perhaps your grandfather was a watchmaker. Yes, your grandfather…

It may not be quite as pretty or compact as the iPad, but open source hardware company Liquidware is selling kits for a $400 build-it-yourself tablet utilizing the Texas Instruments single-board computer BeagleBoard. It all snaps together with relative ease, and the end result, while decidedly Frankensteinian, is sure to turn more heads than Johnny iPad down the street. To be fair, though, this isn’t exactly targeted at the average consumer – instead, Liquidware hopes to entice the hacker-tinkerer-developer crowd. Says Liquidware’s Justin Huynh: “With the iPad, you would have a hard…