The new Macbooks are hot. Get your chuckles on the new manufacturing method, here.

I recently designed an XML API for Instructables. We’ll release the documentation in a bit, once we get some early numbers on how it’s performing, but for now you can already embed a Flash-based Instructable “player” anywhere you like. Here’s an example, from False Profit Labs:

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Google News brought me an interesting mention of Instructables.com: A tongue-in-cheek article titled “Survival 101 for the newly poor” about how DIY resources could be useful during our economic crisis.

What with the opportunities to get back into the finance business so limited these days, a career change might be the best option. How about music? A Web site called Instructables.com has complete instructions for making a guitar out of a discarded Altoids box, a ruler, wire and some wing nuts. If things get really desperate the same site has instruction for building a Smith & Wesson M76 look-alike machine gun out of a pencil, several highlighters and some (what else?) duct tape.

Funny, perhaps, but if things really do get bad, perhaps our urban gardening instructables will see an increase in traffic.

UPDATE: Okay, so it’s funny enough that Instructables is actually going to run a “Party Like it’s 1929″ Contest