Reach Out and iTouch Someone

Get your iPack Rat here!
Disclaimer: preliminary data checks make what I’m about to share with you seem like a money saving solution. However, if anyone reads the fine print and finds out otherwise, let me know.

So. You’ve decided to be all 3008 instead of 2000 and late and get yourself a smart phone. But, every [...]

A long time ago, in a country far, far away…

Pack Rat has a suggestion: Let the Wookie win.
Those of you out there who have earned your nerd badges are going to roll your eyes about today’s post, since I’m more than a decade behind the times. But, better late than never, right?
Today’s case study in obsessive makery is Simon Jansen, a New Zealander who has [...]

Stencil it Up

Pack Rat will let you go on, like a blister in the sun
If you love street art, then you’ve probably noticed that stencils have gained major popularity in the last ten years or so, now becoming almost as ubiquitous as tagging. The technological revolution, and the fact that everyone and their mother seems to have [...]

Pack Rat ‘08

Pack Rat’s campaign platform is nothing but crafts.
In this highly charged election year, everyone is gearing up for a major change in the way our goverment does business. Show your support for a candidate, or start your own grassroots movement for yourself by making a vector political poster through Vectortuts’ Photoshop tutorial. Design so good, [...]

Tech Fab

Pack Rat Magazine: 1984 Winter Olympics Gold Medalist in crafts
Good afternoon friends. So glad you could join me here at the Pack Rat Corral, where we rope up the best darn D.I.Y. finds this side of the Mississippi (and across it, too). Today’s great find is about Geekware, a line of recycled tech [...]