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Barney Rosset gave American readers their first taste of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, as well as uncensored classics by Henry Miller and D.H. Lawrence. To do that, Rosset fought literally hundreds of court cases and was largely responsible for breaking down U.S. obscenity laws in the 1950s and '60s.

Fred Katz wrote for film in Hollywood, accompanied Harpo Marx on piano and taught college anthropology, all as a high-school dropout. But that was after he played with the Chico Hamilton quintet — and brought the cello into modern jazz.

Remember the Sears kit houses from the early 1900s, ordered from a catalog and assembled on-site? Now, online designers around the world are building WikiHouses out of plywood pieces that fit together like a puzzle. No nails, no fasteners, no adhesives. Just slot-together joints and the Internet.

There are 200 community food banks in the U.S. providing free groceries to the needy. About two dozen of them, including one in Hillside, N.J., run community kitchens that train people for careers in the culinary arts.

Sous vide cooking was once the province of chefs at fancy restaurants — and those home cooks willing to shell out close to $1,000 for a water oven. Now, do-it-yourselfers are making their own, inexpensive sous vide cooking rigs, and they're not afraid to brag about the scrumptious product.

At the Bamboo Bike Studio in Brooklyn, N.Y., cycling enthusiasts can assemble their own bikes from scratch in just one weekend. Bike building classes are full until April, but the studio's owners say they don't want the bamboo bike frames to be just another fad.

Three garbage bins have been transformed into swimming pools on an industrial lot in Brooklyn. The idea of swimming in a trash container grosses you out? Think again. They're clean. They're lined with sheets of plastic, and the water is chlorinated and filtered.

As digital technology continues to transform the way objects are manufactured, it's becoming more possible to produce an entire firearm at home. Amateur gunsmiths are now sharing the digital blueprints for making key parts of a gun online on a 3-D printer and one member of Congress has expressed concern about the implications of 3-D printed guns at airports and other public spaces.

The only thing tiny about the tiny house movement is the size of the houses themselves. There are a slew of websites devoted to the scene, and tiny house evangelists are busy traveling around North America, helping DIYers construct these (very) little homes.

What do you get when you put 40 high-energy New Yorkers in a tiny Brooklyn kitchen and tell them all to cook dinner? Chaos. We check out a monthly gathering aptly named "Chaos Cooking."