Saturday, January 30, 2010

Sites That Teach You How to Do Anything

clipped from www.digitizd.com

Howcast


Howcast is all about videos – videos on everything

WikiHow


WikiHow is a Wikipedia-style handbook for how to do anything. It’s created, edited and maintained by the community, and anyone can edit any page. Sounds like it wouldn’t work for a How-To, but it does

eHow


eHow is a huge resource of instructions, both written and video, on how to do just about anything. The site boasts over 500,000 articles and videos, all created by professionals – the quality here is often higher than on a site like WikiHow.

Instructables


Instructables is all about DIY (Do It Yourself) projects. It’s a huge repository of how to pull together household objects or cheap parts, and make something cool out of them

VideoJUG is AWESOME
Even http://www.doityourself.com/ website has got good tutorials.
Youtube is http://www.youtube.com/user/expertvillage
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

awesome..............mood adjuster page

love to fall asleep to it at night

Rainy Mood helps you relax with the sound of RAIN!

Rainy MoodOne of my favorite hacks involves using audio to set a mood. I've created an "anger playlist" to calm myself down when I'm angry, and I often listen to binaural beat tracks to help wake myself up without the use of caffeine, or to help me focus on what I'm working on.

The sound of rain has always created a certain calmness for me. Apparently the same is true for others, to the extent that someone went to the trouble to create Rainy Mood, a single-purpose website that plays a high-quality 30 minute loop of rainy weather sounds.

The audio is superb, and if you close your eyes it can transport you to a totally different place. But what I particularly enjoy about Rainy Mood is that the sound is very much like white noise, and I can use it to cover up the distracting noises going on around me, but it's far more pleasant to listen to than noise tracks.

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

World's Most Flexible Women

Go to the site to see an amazing 3-minute video.
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Amateur star-gazer captures astonishing images of Milky Way through hole in roof of his garden shed

Budget: Mr Shah, 38, fitted his garden shed with a sliding roof and spent £20,000 linking his telescope to his home computer before capturing the images
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Peter Shah, 38, cut a hole in the roof of his wooden shed and set up his modest eight-inch telescope inside.

After months of patiently waiting for the right moment, he captured a series of striking images of the Milky Way from the comfort of his own back garden.


telescope pictures taken by Peter Shah

Striking: Amateur astronomer Peter Shah captured this incredible image of The Pleiades from a telescope in his garden shed

His photographs show a vivid variety of star clusters light years from Earth and have been compared favourably with the images taken from the £2.5billion Hubble telescope.

But Mr Shah spent only £20,000 to equip his garden shed with a telescope linked to his home computer.

I have fitted it with a sliding roof so I can sit in comfort and look at the heavens.


Peter Shah telescope pictures

Patient: Mr Shah spent months in his back garden carefully capturing the images, including this one of The Monkey's Head nebula


Peter Shah telescope pictures

Universe: The collection of images, including this one of The Bubble nebula


Peter Shah telescope pictures

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Peter Shah telescope pictures

Budget: Mr Shah, 38

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Dropped Food. Should You Eat it? [INFOGRAPHIC]

(Results may vary by individual)
clipped from flowingdata.com

Dropped Food. Should You Eat it?

Since you'll be trying every single drink recipe in the engineer's guide this weekend, you're most likely going to drop some food on the ground. Consult this flowchart to decide whether or not to eat it. Results may vary by individual.

Food on the ground, food on the ground. Looking like a fool with your food on the ground.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Brazil Opens World's First Ethanol-Fired Power Plant

clipped from planetark.org
Brazil on Tuesday opened the world's first ethanol-fueled power plant
Petrobras
an alternative feedstock to fossil fuels
Petrobras with the help of GE upgraded the 87-megawatt power plant to switch between running on natural gas or ethanol instantaneously
switching the plant to ethanol reduced carbon dioxide emissions without lowering energy output.
GE has around 770 turbines
many in Japan, that could be converted to run on ethanol,
Brazil is expected to produce a record 27.8 billion liters of ethanol in the 2009/2010 season. It began its biofuels program 30 years ago
Brazil's ethanol production comes from sugar cane milled by companies such as Cosan or commodities giants including Cargill Inc
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Sunday, January 17, 2010

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what all ads should really be saying
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