CrunchGear Week in Review: Look to the Sky Edition

Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear:

The User’s Manifesto: in defense of hacking, modding, and jailbreaking
Hands-On with the Kin 1 and Kin 2
Hyper Telescope: Bandai’s new “science toy” for kids
EasyBloom Plus allows nerds to garden like a pro
Ancient art of origami applied to complex fabrication techniques

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CrunchGear PSA: Go see Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass is everything Watchmen was not: funny, human, and welcoming to non-comic nerds. Go see it. Excellent stuff.

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CrunchGear Week in Review: Mosquitos Edition

Here are some of last week’s stories on CrunchGear:

Mosquitos of the future may vaccinate against malaria, instead of spread it
Gallery: Thermal imaging of household objects
If only you had actually seen The Hurt Locker
Today in history: the flight data recorder
Video: Mini fuel cell powering a robot fish

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CrunchGear PSA: Tech tax deductions

I did my taxes recently, and this is the first year that I actually bothered to deduct for all those things that I buy over the year for my job. It was confusing frankly, and I wish I’d read this article before I did it. Hopefully you’ll read this in time to do your deductions correctly, and not make the same mistakes I did (which caused me to miss out on several things I could have claimed).

I’m not going to go into all the grisly details, I’ll leave that to the person who actually wrote the article at PCWorld, but the gist of it is this: be careful what you deduct, and how you deduct it. And yes, you can deduct your internet connection (at least part of it) if you are a blogger. Be careful not to write off 100% value on items like computers or phones, as the IRS won’t believe you that you use those things strictly for business purposes.

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