At instructables, leevonk has shared instructions on making a Tupperware iPod Boombox.
The cheap DIY project “uses dollar store Tupperware, styrofoam and cheap speakers to make a surprisingly cool boombox/stereo.”
via Lifehacker

New Scientist points out some legalese buried into Apple’s iTunes EULA that you’ll want to keep in mind, if you’re planning on using iTunes to run a nuclear reactor:
“Licensee also agrees that Licensee will not use the Apple Software for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or [...]

Time’s Jeremy Caplan writes that the “iPhone’s next frontier” is - OMG! - porn.
iPhone porn that threatens today’s youth.
Check out the drippingly lurid intro to Caplan’s article:
“Apple may be golden because of the iPhone, but the soon-to-be-updated device is also increasingly the source of forbidden fruit. Steve Jobs’ company is keeping a civil, if embarrassed, [...]

OT: Cosmo’s Bethany Heitman has a got a tip for Your Fabulous Life: you can save money on music through wholesale music piracy!
Heitman writes:
“Having new tunes is ideal, but shelling out the cash to buy said music hurts.
Call up friends, and ask them to burn you a CD of songs they think you’ll like. Tell [...]

Alison and Lloyd of technology makeover show My Home 2.0 perform some innovative surgery on an old teddy bear.
The result: a teddy bear that reads your Twitter feed.
The Twittering Teddy also has a UStream channel, so you can tweet about something and then go watch a creepy animatronic teddy bear speak it on live streaming [...]

A Florida judge has ordered two teenage boys who used the site for a prank to create a video apology for their mischief and to post it on YouTube.

While this seems at first like an apt punishment for the teens, it also seems like it goes against the site’s content guidelines, which forbid posting videos of people getting humiliated.

Should the state be forcing minors to humilate themselves on YouTube?

Remember last month’s blogging can kill you hysteria?

In April, the New York Times ran an exposé on the health risks of blogging. At the time, we were skeptical, and it turns out that our instincts were right.

Researchers now say that blogging is actually good for you.

Ever struggle to get a decent recording of your voice for a podcast?
This video, from poykpak, shows that there’s more to life than great voiceovers….

It’s tax day in the US, and it looks like that’s not the only bad news.
Here are a few news items related to new media that aren’t exactly making my day:

Twitter is adding advertising. Would you like spam with that tweet?
Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto is sort of optional; they run new projects against an [...]

The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) has launched one of the stranger user-generated video contests ever, iTuber Take II. They are inviting potato lovers from across the country to create videos featuring potatoes.
In celebration of the International Year of the Potato, the Idaho Potato Commission has launched a special category just for Idaho high school students [...]