The recent, and by such I mean the time it became identifiable to the general public, trend for reality based  programming based on the physical world, such as Mythbusters, American Chopper ,Monster Garage and the plethora of house porn shown by HGTV: 

Technical Video Rental may have the seeds of your own destruction  ,hell they may even show you how to build the petard* to hoist yourself on:)

Make: Motherlode of people that take "do not try this at home" as a challenge. They are going to have a Maker Faire in San Mateo  this April which sounds too good to miss.


*Petard does not refer to an animal companion that has special needs.