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What Can You Do With $100?
An anonymous reader asks "I was recently gifted with $100 and thought, 'What's the coolest geektoy--new, used, cobbled together, hacked--that one hundred clams could buy?' Home automation? Older PDA streaming client? Bathtub ROV? Basic stamp robotic kit? Something fun, something useful, something educational, something that says 'Look what I put together for $100.' Lemme know!"
Make costs $35 a year. Use the $65 left to build a couple of projects.
Perhaps you should look at Make magazine. Their first issue had some pretty cool stuff. The aerial kite photography project might be doable for $100, if you've got the tools.
GET YOUR WEAPONS READY! --DR.LIGHT
Being good open-source citizen, you will immediately donate that $100 gift to your favorite OSS project! Thank you! Or Maybe just a few bucks.
Or, you can buy a bunch of little stuff, like:
Super-strong neodymium magnets. Magnets sound boring, but these things are really, really strong. Get the spherical ones.
There's a whole host of cheap, unusual geeky projects at American Science & Surplus.
Get a cheap computer. Buy a Used Xbox, and install Xbox Linux on it.
Color changing lights. The color change is nice and smooth. Popular with the kids.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
I'd suggest you get a dictionary yourself.
Try this link for example: Dictionary.com says gifted can mean 'to present something as a gift to' or 'to endow with' and cites the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
Umm... when I worked on an Aids project a long time ago, the rate reported was $20 - and there isn't much in the way of inflation in that business. Since the rate was $50 for something more kinky, you could probably get that for $100 in a poor area that shall go nameless.
'Course, about 5% of the pros were working their way through a sex-change, so you might get more kinky than you really want...
And yes, that made the database really difficult to design...