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Now here’s a great craft site for kids projects which has original craft ideas for young kids (aged 2-5) posted weekly via email newsletter and online. This week’s topic is transportation where kids can make an easy propeller plane out of toothpaste and lightblub boxes. Link.
Professor of Biology and Chemistry David B. Fankhauser shows you how to make your own ginger ale – “Fermentation has been used by mankind for thousands of years for raising bread, fermenting wine and brewing beer. The products of the fermentation of sugar by baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (a fungus) are ethyl alcohol and carbon […]
Using these molds you can grow veggies with faces on them – “Available in the form of an elf for shaping eggplant, melon, pumpkin, and squash, or the “pickle pair”, corncob or heart (makes heart-shaped cross sections when sliced) for use with cucumber, zucchini and summer squash. The molds can be used repeatedly. With zucchini, […]
Popular Mechanics has a brief how-to on outfitting your PC with a $100 ATI HDTV card and indoor HDTV indoor antenna for (free) hi-def viewing – [via] – Link. Related: Record HDTV on Windows Media Center – Link. HDTV on Your Mac – Link. DIY PVR and HDTV hacked into a 1952 Philips TV console […]
Looks like Content Paradaise is giving away Poser 5 ($79) if you register with them (also free) by September 8th, if you’re thinking of dabbling with 3D figures, animations and art, might be worth checking out while the price is right – “Poser 5 is the award-winning 3D character design tool for artists, illustrators and […]
By Arwen O’Reilly I saw this exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York two years ago, and I am fervently grateful that I got the chance to see it again. The show is of approximately 60 quilts from Gee’s Bend, a community in rural Alabama that was isolated for decades because of its placement […]
Doc showed us his craft projects using old transistor tubes from broken radios and television sets and how he makes them into cool jewelry. Doc says, “I’m a huge fan of retro technology and re-using old items, but this newest craft project has been one of my favorites.” Link.
