Core77

Ever miss the ID studio at school, where you've got all that crap lying around and late at night you just start making stuff with it? Our studio at Pratt spontaneously spawned a tree made of functioning stereo speakers, a CD-storage treadmill made of leftover dowels, and the grad students (including some of the Core77 boys, though they'll deny it) even installed an illegitimate firepole to easily get from the 5th floor to the 4th.

Anyways, a Human Computer Interaction researcher with the handle AK has some interesting DIY projects on her blog that have that late-in-the-studio-on-too-many-cups-of-coffee feel, even if they don't involve sawing holes in the floor.

If you've got stacks of printouts waiting to be trashed, turn them into giftworthy notepads. For the moleskine-inclined, she's got Moleskine Mods. And while this third one is less DIY than BIY ("B" for "buy"), here's some flicks of Costco vs. Ikea storage.

Have any of you seen blogs with similar (and do-able, as opposed to MacGyver) desktop DIY projects? If so, please post in the comments, thanks. Self-nominations accepted, just make it worth our while!

(Thanks to Wolf for the heads-up.)