Show and Tell for MAKE at Crashspace in LA - tonight 9/30/11, 8pm

By Mark Frauenfelder at 4:18 pm Friday, Sep 30

[Video Link] My friends at Crashspace are opening their doors to the public tonight for a fun event: its members are going to show me things they are working on and we are going to figure out the best way to present them in MAKE. There will be about eight 10-minute presentations. I can't wait to see what the projects are. Hope to see you there!

Crashpace: 10526 Venice Blvd, Culver City CA 90232

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Hacker Prom tonight at San Francisco's Noisebridge hackerspace

By Cory Doctorow at 10:03 am Saturday, Oct 1

NoiseBridge, the celebrated hackerspace in San Francisco's Mission district, is celebrating its third anniversary tonight with a Hacker Prom. There's a makeout room (featuring Makerbots), pre-spiked punch, and awkward prom photos. You're encouraged to bring a robot date. Oh, this does look fun!

The whole event is a fundraiser for NoiseTor, a part of the TOR anonymizing proxy system, which creates and manages Tor nodes for those without the time to set one up themselves.

(Thanks, Danny!)

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Wolves in Yellowstone on PBS NewsHour tonight

If today's broadcast schedule continues as planned, The PBS NewsHour will air a piece I helped Miles O'Brien shoot in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho about the return of wolf hunting for sport in the American West. Some of it, I must tell you, we shot on horseback.

As Miles reports in the story, wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park some 16 years ago, after being completely wiped out in an extinction campaign. The wolves have come back in numbers better than anticipated, and ranchers have lobbied for a return of sport hunting, to keep the wolf population numbers down and minimize "depredation"—that's cow-country jargon for "killing cattle."

As you might imagine, there is intense controversy over the science, politics, and resources involved. Pro-wolf advocates say the number of hunting tags issued will bring the wolf numbers back to extinction status; ranchers argue that without some intervention, it is the American rancher who will become extinct.

Miles speaks to pro- and anti-wolf ranchers, cowboys, environmentalists, biologists, and amateur wolf-lovers who wake up every morning before dawn to go out and observe the wolves in their natural habitat. In the process of shooting this piece, we joined the "wolf nerds of Yellowstone," and saw the wolves out in the wild. That, for me, was a once-in-a-lifetime wonder. Wolves are amazing creatures.

Above, a snuggle in the back seat of a rancher's truck as we drove to a higher-altitude summer pasture in search of some wandering cows. Kit is a working dog on the Flying Diamond ranch, run by Martin Davis (who you'll meet in the NewsHour piece). I realize I may be breaching ethics rules by falling in love with the doggie talent, but ethics be damned. PBS NewsHour's Jenny Marder shot the snap, and produced the "Wolves" story.

Search for your local PBS affiliate that carries NewsHour here. I'll post video here later when it's available online.

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