terça-feira, junho 14, 2005: A New Magazine's Rebellious Credo

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Thank goodness, then, for Make and its Web log, makezine.com/blog, so technologically astute and yet so solidly grounded in a tactile, breakable, fixable world. Make's quick success - circulation has hit 60,000 already, at $34.95 a year - shows that even in this wireless age, hands-on inventiveness and curiosity are not dead, dying or even running a fever. To these homegrown "makers," to use the magazine's preferred coinage, Radio Shack and Dremel tools are not anachronisms, but vital resources for solving problems, delighting oneself and one's friends, and making mischief.

Make's editors try not to overdo the words "hack" and "hacker," although that is the term most widely used for its target audience - not just computer vandals, but anyone who manipulates technology in unintended, creative ways. In this usage, Leonardo, Franklin and Jefferson were proto-hackers, Martha Stewart is a domesticated hacker and a certain venerable newspaper column might as well be renamed "Hacks From Heloise."

That said, the hacks in Make are harder than your basic stenciled pillowcase. The third issue, due out in August, will include projects for tricking out your house for Halloween. That leaves three months to study the instructions and to assemble who knows what will be required: presumably wires, switches, cables, adapters, speakers, goggles, hard drives, joysticks, Legos, plywood, dry ice, acrylics, glue and spent nuclear fuel rods.

You'll proceed strictly at your own risk, but if the first two issues of Make are any guide, the trip will be a blast.
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New York Times

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