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Greetings from the lonesome October, fellow free and open source software
fans. This is the Linux newsletter, dedicated to half-priced candy on the
day after tomorrow. Here's what's new in the F/OSS world as seen on the
O'Reilly Network.

The *BSD world has had recent flurries of activity lately, with new
releases, philosophical discussions, new distributions, and the recent
acquisition of PC-BSD. A hardware provider named iXsystems bought the
desktop-capable flavor of FreeBSD. Dru Lavigne found it curious and
investigated; what resulted is an interview with Kris Moore (PC-BSD
Founder) and Matt Olander (iXsystems CTO) on their reasonings and plans:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/10/23/ixsystems-pc-bsd.html

Another milestone in the world of BSD is the 11th anniversary of OpenBSD,
celebrated in part with the release of OpenBSD 4.0, right on the dot. To
commemorate the release, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed over 20 OpenBSD
developers to discuss new features as well as the ongoing skirmish against
undistributable binary blobs:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/26/openbsd-40.html

Because good things come in threes, there's also a new release of the
Python programming language. Python 2.5 takes the language further in the
directions intended for Python 3000. Though you still have a couple of
years to prepare, you can use some of the new features now to see how they
improve your code. Jeff Cogswell describes the shinies, paying particular
attention to generators and contexts:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/26/python-25.html

In recent podcasts, Craig Warren Smith and Tor Norretranders discuss the
connections between spirituality, altruism, and technology:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/10/23/distributing-the-future.html

Phil Torrone makes a spud gun and gets hit with a potato:

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/make_a_spud_gun_2.html

In weblogs this week, Curt Hibbs found as many reports on RubyConf 2006
as possible:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/10/blogging_about_rubyconf_2006.html

Andy Oram pondered what the new web can do for journalists and artists:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/web_20_for_journalists_and_art.html

Jeremy Jones started exploring Ubuntu Dapper to Edgy upgrade traumas:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/ubuntu_edgy_install_frustratio.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/aptget_distupgrade_broken_goin.html

Steve Mallett recommended not relying on a web API for a live demo:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/doing_a_demo_dont_rely_on_an_a_1.html

Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6, with lots of role/type discussions:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_8.html

Ming Chow reported on his Fedora Core 6 installation:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/fedora_core_6_installation_hel.html

Chris Tyler explained new features in FC 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/whats_new_fedora_core_6_part_1.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/whats_new_fedora_core_6_part_2.html

Nitesh Dhanjani dismissed the idea of high-assurance SSL certificates:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/post.html

Victor Rodriguez interviewed Parrot's patchmonster Leo Toetsch:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/people_of_perl_leopold_toetsch.html

Carla Schroder asked for the return of her endangered man pages on Linux:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/10/i_want_my_man_pages_back.html

Tim O'Reilly writes about the painful persistence of bad data online:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/the_persistence_of_bad_data.html

Marc Hedlund channeled David Lynch regarding a new internet bubble:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/it_is_happening.html

Allison Randal admitted a problem with her inbox:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/the_problem_of.html

Now your editor goes off to tame his.

In other news, your editor and Andy Oram are looking for technical writing
professors at colleges and universities to discuss a project that will
benefit all users and developers of free and open source software. If you
have any contacts, please let us know.

Until next week,
- c

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I've complained long and loud that Microsoft has abandoned power users.
But based on a lunch I had with some Microsofties, there's evidence that
might be changing. Check out my blog to see why.
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/10/has_microsoft_heard_power_user.html

Microsoft Releases ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 (aka "Atlas")
Microsoft has just released Beta 1 of ASP.NET AJAX, its new Ajax framework
for building richer web clients that play well with ASP.NET 2.0
applications. O'Reilly's John Osborne has details about the downloadable
package, formerly known as "Atlas."
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/10/microsoft_releases_aspnet_ajax.html

Santa Claus, Courtesy of Microsoft
Buy a new PC with Windows XP on it, and you may be eligible for a free
version of Windows Vista when it ships. Mitch Tulloch has details.
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/10/ho_ho_ho.html

Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup
Todd Ogasawara is back with his weekly roundup of Windows Mobile News. Is
Business Card Scanner for Windows Mobile in the works?
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/10/windows_mobile_weekly_roundup_7.html

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Greetings...

This week, we return to an excerpt from "JBoss at Work" by Tom Marrs and
Scott Davis. In case you missed last week's newsletter, the concept of
this book is to show the various pieces of a typical enterprise
application running under JBoss not as isolated concerns, but as a
completely integrated whole. To this end, the book builds up a single,
real-world application, adding new functionality in each chapter. For
ONJava, we've been excerpting one of the later chapters, which shows how
to take a completed application and expose it as a web service.

In last week's excerpt, you saw how to convert the "JAW Motors"
application into a web service and deploy it. However, there's a lot of
manual configuration involved with the process introduced in the first
part, so in this week's excerpt, "JBoss at Work: Web Services, Part 2,"
the authors show how to automate this deployment with Ant. The excerpt
then moves on to testability, showing how to test the deployment and write
a simple client to call the service.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/jboss_chap10/index1.html

Speaking more generally of services, dev2dev author Quinton Wall has been
thinking of the process of developing Service Oriented Architectures
(SOAs). In "Understanding the Lifecycle within an SOA: Design Time," he
writes: "By further understanding design time needs with regard to shared
service lifecycle, organizations looking to SOA to promote reuse and
increase business flexibility may recognize that establishing fundamentals
early, such as methodology, categorization guidelines, and development
tools, is crucial to early and continued success. By beginning to break
the traditional application development paradigms and focus on business
processes as the blueprint for moving forward, service engineering
teams can provide closer alignment to business needs in a timely and
efficient manner."

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/08/soa-service-lifecycle-design.html

In this week's feature article from java.net, Thomas Künneth looks at the
other side of JSR-223: not how to call scripting languages from Java, but
how to to expose a new language to Java. "The new Java Scripting API
integrates scripting languages into the Java environment. JSR-223-aware
applications can execute scripts and, if the scripting language supports
this feature, exchange data objects with them. My article "Scripting for
the Java Platform" shows you how to query available languages and how to
communicate with them. But what does it take to make existing scripting
languages JSR-223-aware? This article is based on my work on
Java-AppleScript-Connector, a bridge between AppleScript and Java. I will
explain important classes and interfaces you need to provide, and offer
sample implementations as well as best practices."

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/09/21/making-scripting-languages-jsr-223-aware.html

Recent O'Reilly Network weblogs of interest to Java developers:

Don Brown - My History of Struts 2
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/10/my_history_of_struts_2.html

Amir Shevat - Decoupling web 2.0 applications from server-side implementation
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/10/decupling_web_20_applications.html

Paul Browne - Storing Business Rules in a Database
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/10/storing_business_rules_in_a_da.html

Steve Anglin - Groovy/Grails User Group meeting coming soon...
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/10/groovygrails_user_group_meetin.html

Paul Browne - An Oracle tool that's worth looking at
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/10/an_oracle_tool_thats_worth_loo.html

Robert Cooper - Numb3rs
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/10/numb3rs.html

Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
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Hello, Linux newsletter subscribers. This opening paragraph, buried
secretly in the middle of this mailing, tells you that you've already
started to read a weekly recap of the news, articles, and opinions posted
on the O'Reilly Network related to free and open source software.

This just in: the Southern California Linux Expo has issued a call for
papers. The conference will take place February 10 and 11, 2007, in Los
Angeles. (LA in February is usually pretty nice, compared to almost
everything north of there.) Your editor recommends learning more:

http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/cfp/scale5x.txt

Software development isn't easy, especially the distributed kind. If you
participate in an open source or free software project, or if you work
with colleagues in other places, sometimes getting together in person for
a few days will increase your productivity immensely. Steve Holden
recently helped to organize such sprints for the Python world. He's
written his thoughts on what makes a development effort effective, in
"Running a Sprint":

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html

Administering any database larger than a table takes a bit of work,
especially if you care about the data. If it's not backups or creating new
entities, it's monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing. Though the
default tools help, they're not the only utilities available; there's
plenty of help from the community to keep on top of your administration.
Baron Schwartz surveys open source tools for MySQL administrators:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mysql/2006/10/19/mysql-tools.html

One of the longest-lived and still useful web development frameworks in
existence is Perl's CGI::Application. The latest version added support for
plugins and borrowed some of the best ideas from some of the newer
toolkits. Mark Stosberg shows off the modernization available in
CGI::Application and demonstrates how easy it is to write Perl web
applications that scale from very small problems to very large ones:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/10/19/cgi_application.html

In recent podcasts, Tom Steinberg discusses election tools:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/10/16/distributing-the-future.html

Your editor writes a novel:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/10/09/distributing-the-future.html

Phil Torrone makes an LED pumpkin:

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/weekend_project_3.html

In weblogs this week, Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_7.html

Andy Oram pondered what Web 2.0 can do for independent authors:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/kosmopolis_and_web_20_for_inde.html

Your author scoffed at deliberately writing baby-code in the hopes that
maintenance programmers can understand important code:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/see_spot_code_code_spot_code.html

... then criticized the use of "Linux support" to mean "only 32-bit x86
Linux support":

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/10/uh_thanks_for_the_linux_suppor.html

Curt Hibbs collected a great set of weblog posts about RubyConf 2006:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/10/blogging_about_rubyconf_2006.html

Chris Tyler bragged a little about his Fedora Linux book:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/fedora_core_fedora_linux_downl.html

Jeremy Jones noted a new release of SQLAlchemy, a Python SQL toolkit and ORM:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/sqlalchemy_030_released.html

Tim O'Reilly spreads Larry Lessig's distinction between real and fake sharing:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/real_sharing_vs.html

... and wondered what it takes to get the market to tell the truth:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/getting_the_mar.html

Nat Torkington found the ever-entertaining Squid Labs on CNN:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/squid_labs_on_c.html

Now it's off to OOPSLA in lovely (and overcast) downtown Portland. What
does the future hold for object-oriented software?

Hoping Croquet goes somewhere popular,
- c

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Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

This week we get the second part of Sreekumar Pillai's two-part series
introducing OpenLaszlo, and this time he shows us how to develop an
OpenLaszlo application using DB-2 Express.

Developing an OpenLaszlo App
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/10/18/developing-an-openlaszlo-app.html

Also worth reading this week:

Mark Pruett, What I Didn't Know About XHR
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David Chappell, Service Reuse: Fact or Fiction?
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Hiya, camel herders. You've reached the introductory paragraph of the
Perl newsletter, cleverly hidden in the middle of this mailing. Give
yourself a Parrot Magic Cookie.

Here's what's new in the world of Perl this fortnight.

* Perl Events

Is there any lovelier time to visit Chicago than the end of fall? Maybe,
but if you do it the weekend of November 10-12, you can participate in the
Chicago Hackathon 2006. This is an opportunity for all midwest hackers to
help their favorite Perl 5, Perl 6, and Parrot projects by meeting in
person and getting stuff done:

http://hackathon.info/

* Perl News

Jonathan Worthington announced a new and large Perl 6 FAQ available from
Programmer's Heaven:

http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-FAQ

David Landgren has summarized the weeks in Perl 5:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/12/1217252
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/19/1230210

Ann Barcomb has summarized the weeks in Perl 6:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/16/107236

Your editor has minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/13/1515244
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/31371

Audrey Tang released Pugs 6.2.13 after four months of development:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/17/1522216

Mark Leighton Fisher announced the new pmtools-perl6 mailing list for
discussing pure Perl tools written in Perl 6:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/18/1742254

* Perl Jobs

The Pugs and Parrot projects each maintain a short list of tasks for
programmers interested in spending an hour or two helping out. You often
don't have to know much about either project or much beyond Perl 5.

In the world of Parrot, the best and brightest task this week is to choose
a portion of a Parrot Design Document, read through it, and make sure it
has comprehensive tests. You need to know little more than Perl and
English to accomplish this. If you have a couple of hours free and this
sounds interesting, send a message to parrot-porters@perl.org or ask in
#parrot on irc.perl.org.

* Perl on ORN

Processing large volumes of IO requests requires changing the way you
think about designing your software. Traditional approaches use blocking
IO, where you can wait until you read the entire request before processing
it. Another option is to use asynchronous IO with event-based systems.
Does that sentence mean little to you? That's OK. Stas Bekman
demonstrates what this means with actual, working Perl code, while
describing how the MailChannels team fights spam:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/10/12/asynchronous_events.html

CGI::Application is a venerable system for building effective, powerful,
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4.0, it suddenly became even more powerful. Mark Stosberg shows off some
of the new features. If you're stuck in the CGI.pm days or just want a
new way to write applications, this is for you:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/10/19/cgi_application.html

Do you administrate a MySQL server full- or part-time? Baron Schwartz
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mysql/2006/10/19/mysql-tools.html

Speaking of hackathons (several paragraphs earlier), Steve Holden recently
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community. He wrote about his experiences organizing and participating in
such events to help other people decide when and how to host them and what
to expect if they participate:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html

Your editor questioned the conventional "wisdom" of writing baby-talk code
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/see_spot_code_code_spot_code.html

... and then asked why bugs tend to clump together in a system:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/why_do_bugs_clump_together.html

Nitesh Dhanjani reminded everyone of more security vulnerabilities found
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/using_google_code_search_to_fi.html

Curtis Poe showed how to use Class::Trait to maintain state in a program:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/using_traits_to_maintain_state.html

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http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/10/19/cgi_application.html

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The State of the Onion 10
In Larry Wall's tenth annual State of the Onion address, he talks about
raising children and programming languages and balancing competing
tensions and irreconcilable desires.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

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Generating UML and Sequence Diagrams
Sometimes a picture can save you thousands of words of description--and
debugging. A sequence diagram shows the flow of methods and function calls
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Still More Perl Lightning Articles
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FEAR-less Site Scraping
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Charting Data at the Bottom of the World
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Apache httpd has a well-understood plain-text logfile format. It's
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/12/httpd-syslog.html

Network applications can be tricky to write if they have to deal with
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In weblogs this week, your editor asked challenge-response mail-system
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/dear_psychopathic_challengeres_1.html

Curtis Poe demonstrated the use of traits and roles to maintain state in
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/using_traits_to_maintain_state.html

Jeremy Jones reviewed the state of eye candy on the Linux desktop:

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Nitesh Dhanjani followed up on the use of Google's code search to find
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Andy Oram suggested that peer-to-peer distribution models--and large media
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Steve Mallett started a customer-mutual-help society to deal with
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Ann Barcomb summarized a week of changes in Perl 6:

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Carla Schroder pointed to her series of articles on managing Linux's Udev:

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... and argued against crimes of web design:

Mitch Tulloch reported a statistic about IIS overtaking Apache httpd in
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pat eyler considered domain-specific features in languages such as COBOL
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Curt Hibbs opined on Ruby entering the TIOBE mainstream category:

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Tom Adelstein recommended buying Windows XP (even for free software users)
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Brady Forest analyzed the Chinese Wikipedia's increasing accessibility:

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Nat Torkington called COBOL undead:

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Allison Randal reported news from the Government Open Source Conference:

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Kurt Cagle, AJAX on the Enterprise
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MAKE NEWS No. 46 -- Friday the 13th! MAKE & CRAFT Halloween Contests!

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October 13, 2006
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It's Friday the 13th. It's October. Get your scare on.

OK folks, a little MAKE newsletter housekeeping before we start off. We're
switching to a HTML-based newsletter, so starting in 2 weeks (the next
newsletter) you'll get a better version of the MAKE newsletter, just like
the CRAFT and Tools-N-Tips newsletters.

You can manage subscriptions to your newsletters here at any time:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/nl/home>

Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests!
Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you
are, you can enter all or just some of the contests. We'll have lots of updates
and posts regarding all these, but this is to get you started and planning.

THE CONTESTS!

Hack-o-Lantern contest: Decorate a pumpkin in any way you see fit, or unfit. It's
that easy. Then upload your photos to the MAKE or CRAFT Flickr photo pools and
tag them "MAKECRAFTHALLOWEEN". Or you can email them to us, but just be aware
that we're going to upload them to the MAKE and CRAFT Flickr photo pools. We'll
also have a roundup of ways to decorate a pumpkin as it gets closer to Halloween.

Costume Contest: Dressing up? Making your own costume? As long as you "make"
something, you can enter. Any costume with homemade elements on it, in it, or
used is OK. Take a photo of your costume(s), then upload your photos to the MAKE
or CRAFT Flickr photo pool, and tag them "MAKECRAFTHALLOWEEN". Or you can email
them to us and we'll upload them to the MAKE and CRAFT Flickr photo pools. We'll
continue to post fun costumes and how-tos all this month as well.

Decorations, Gadgets and More Contest: Decorations at home, work, wherever, a
haunted house, lawn gadgets, anything Halloweeny. If you're one of those makers
or crafters who goes all out and makes their surroundings spooky in some way,
take a photo! Then upload your photos to the MAKE or CRAFT Flickr photo pool and
tag them "MAKECRAFTHALLOWEEN" Or you can email them to us, but just be aware that
we're going to upload them to the MAKE and CRAFT Flickr photo pools. We will
spotlight some of our favorite Halloween-related projects all this month to
inspire folks.

Treat-or-Treat Contest: This is the easiest one. If you have a blog, a website,
MySpace, or anything online, just post a link to MAKE or CRAFT. We will pick 10
people we see linking to us. It works best if you have a blog-like site; we'll
be using the Technorati service to track who is linking to us. You can post a
link to us in your sidebar, a link about this contest, anything really. Do a
post about MAKE or CRAFT, it doesn't matter to us, but we can see it best if
it's on a blog, and making it fun always helps (extra credit if it's a SPOOKY
STORY).

Prizes!
Besides the glory and fame of being a winner of the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween
Contest, we're going to give away some stuff.

* Hack-O-Lantern: We'll pick 3 pumpkins and the winner gets a MAKE limited
edition Pocket Ref and a copy of the Makers book.

* Costumes: We'll pick 3 costumes and each winner gets MAKE year one (4 volumes
of MAKE in a collector's box) and the first issue of CRAFT.

* Decorate/Gadgets: We'll pick 3 winners and each will receive a MAKE controller
kit and a POV kit.

* Treat-or-Treat: We'll pick 10 people who linked to MAKE & CRAFT and send the
latest issue of MAKE or CRAFT (your choice).

* Grand prize: We'll pick one of our winners as the grand prize, and they'll
receive: a MAKE controller kit, MAKE year one (4-volume collector's set), CRAFT,
a POV kit, AND a box of MAKE magazines donated to a classroom or school of their
choice! You want to win this--do it for the children!

Deadline
Have your entries in before Saturday, Nov. 4, 2006, at 1:59 p.m. EST. We're giving
you a little time to take photos and get them up post-Halloween, but you can enter
any time starting now. Contest is open to anyone on planet Earth or surrounding
orbit.

Remember you can enter at any time just by tagging your photos on Flickr with
"MAKECRAFTHALLOWEEN" and adding them to the MAKE and/or CRAFT photo pools or just
email them to us. To enter the trick-or-treat portion, just post about MAKE/CRAFT
or the contest on your blog. And lastly, if you want to use MAKE and/or CRAFT
logos in your projects or posts, get'em here:

<http://makezine.com/logos/>
<http://craftzine.com/logos/>

SO! What are you waiting for? Scare us! Inspire us! Humor us!

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/make_craft_halloween_contests.html>

=Swap-O-Rama-Rama (photos!)=

The MAKE & CRAFT team would like to thank the organizers of Swap-O-Rama-Rama and
everyone who stopped by at our CRAFT table in New York. We had a lot of fun at
this fantastic event!

Check out some of our photos here:
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/swaporamarama_p.html>

MAKE: Video!
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=Weekend Project Podcast: Shadow Puppet Monsters=

In this video, you'll learn how to use paper and polycarbonate (lexan) to make
shadow puppets. Then you'll learn how to make a shadow theater. If you make a
puppet show, make sure to take pictures and upload them to the MAKE Flickr pool.
Also, download the PDF instructions so that you can print out while you work on
your puppets!

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/>

MAKE: Blog
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Can't get enough MAKE? Visit the MAKE blog for a daily dose of all things you
*should* try at home. Each day we post dozens of stories, projects, hacks, and
mods sent by you, makers!

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/>

This week on the MAKE: Blog-

=Strange Love: George Dyson on Nuclear Weapon Scientists=

With North Korea in the news, we thought this would be an interesting article to
post online. In the current issue of MAKE, we have an article by George Dyson
called "Strange Love: Or, How They Learned to Start Worrying and Love to Hate the
Bomb." Here's a link to the article on MAKE and the full PDF:
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/strange_love_ge.html>

=Free Halloween Project: Scary Pumpkins from Electronics Projects for Dummies=
Earl Boysen was kind enough to arrange for our MAKE blog readers to get this
special Halloween how-to called "Scary Pumpkins" from the book he co-authored,
"Electronics Projects For Dummies." The Scary Pumpkins sense visitors when they
walk between them using an infrared beam. The pumpkins then greet the vistors
with a spooky message you record on a voice chip integrated circuit. Here are
the electronics bits stuffed inside one of the pumpkins.

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/free_halloween.html>

MAKE: Flickr Photo Pool
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There are over 5,156 photos with 1,722 Makers from around the world posting
projects, hacks, mods, and more in the MAKE photo pool.

Kid robot, no really:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/petesweb/265100057/in/pool-make/>

Blinking skulls for your stereo:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/84596092@N00/266646161/in/pool-make/>

Metal pinhole camera:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/judithhoffman/266574137/in/pool-make/>

Headless horseman LEGO LED:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/265878996/in/pool-make/>

Make a MAKE maker burrito:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmtorrone/sets/72157594324378316/>

MAKE Volume 07!
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Volume 07: Backyard Biology

Hack your plants, extract your DNA, 70's soapbox saga, build a videocam rocket,
and head-mounted water cannon.

<http://www.makezine.com/07/>

If you're a MAKE subscriber, don't forget that you can log in right now and see
all of MAKE 07 with MAKE's digital edition.

<http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol07/>

If you're not a subscriber yet, subscribe today and never have to worry about
finding your favorite mag again--it'll come straight to your door!

<http://www.makezine.com/subscribe>

=Renegade crafters! MAKE’s new Zine, CRAFT, On Newsstands October 17!=

From the team that brought you MAKE, CRAFT is a quarterly, project-based magazine
dedicated to the renaissance occurring within the world of crafts. Our vision with
CRAFT is to unite, inspire, inform and entertain a growing community of highly
imaginative and resourceful people who are transforming traditional art and crafts
with unconventional, unexpected and sometimes renegade techniques, materials and
tools.

CRAFT is written for and by creative, free-spirited DIY enthusiasts; tech-savvy
makers & crafters; students (of all ages), teachers; the intellectually curious,
artistically inclined and environmentally aware. People who derive an innate
sense of pleasure in finding unexpected ways to repurpose, re-make and re-use
materials, art, technology, devices in their daily lives.

Learn How to:

· Embroider a skateboard
· Make and program a light-up tank top
· Convert an old pair of shoes into chic knitted boots
· Create an iPod cozy through the ancient art of felt-making

CRAFT goes on sale October 17, 2006 and we anticipate a very quick sellout (as
was the case with the inaugural issue of MAKE). Avoid the crushing disappointment
of an empty newsstand, and reserve a copy today by subscribing.

As a special offer to MAKE readers, visit craftzine.com/subscribe and claim an
inaugural subscription for yourself or as a gift for the crafter in your life
before October 17th, enter promotion code MAKE4CRAFT, and receive the cool new
CRAFT T-shirt.

Just visit <http://craftzine.com/subscribe>

And be sure to check out our new blog:

<http://craftzine.com/blog>

=MAKE: Limited Edition Pocket Ref=

We love us some Pocket Ref. It's a great little book with concise all-purpose
reference featuring hundreds of tables, maps, formulas, constants, and conversions
AND it still fits in your shirt pocket! Get one, heck two, at the MAKE store for
only $12.95!

<http://makezine.com/store/>

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Don't buy what you can make, don't make what you can find!

*The MAKE Team*

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