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How to Build a Terrarium

February 14, 2010

A terrarium is a type of vivarium (vivarium is a Latin phrase that means “place of life”): a vivarium is a container, which can be either open or closed, for growing plants and/or raising animals (an aquarium is a type of vivarium) for the purposes of observation, research, or, more commonly, decoration. A terrarium is [...]

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How to Cellar Wine – How to store, save, and age wine properly

February 11, 2010

Cellaring wine is not a complicated procedure, nor does it need to be expensive (though you’re more than welcome to build something like what you see there on the left, just remember to invite me over for a tasting, ok? ), however there are several things that I’ve learned about it over the years which [...]

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How to Build Stonehenge in Your Backyard (seriously)

February 9, 2010

I came across this a while ago, saw it again, and figured it was definitely post-worthy. This guy, a former construction worker in Michigan named Wally Wallington (yes, really), has literally figured out how Stonehenge was built: with sticks, stones, leverage, and an amount of strength that a single man is easily capable of providing. [...]

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How to Dry Clean at Home

February 9, 2010

I’ve been guilty of doing this several times: buy something, get it home, then notice that it says “dry clean only” on the tag. How aggravating is that? Oh, I also tend to buy things and then several days later notice that they say “hand wash only”–I throw them in the washing machine anyway . [...]

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How to Make a Scarecrow (a real one–for a garden, etc.)

February 8, 2010

A scarecrow is, traditionally, a human-like figure that has been stuffed full of straw or other similar plant material and placed strategically in a farmer’s field for the purpose of scaring away crows and other birds who may try to eat freshly planted seeds. The scarecrow concept has been found to date back to, at [...]

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How to Kill Termites Yourself (also, how to prevent them in the first place)

January 26, 2010

Ok, first off, the most obvious and effective option, the best one really, is to just call a good exterminator or pest control company in your area and have them come out and do what it is that they specialize in (eliminating pests and bugs such as termites). Keep in mind that a good-sized termite [...]

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How to Make a HDTV Antenna with Some Coathangers!

January 19, 2010

Today I’m going to show you how to build your own HDTV antenna at home out of some coathangers and other junk you can find laying around that is not only cheaper than the kind you can buy from the store but also works significantly better. On February 17th, 2009 (last year), every TV station [...]

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How to Make a Dreamcatcher

January 2, 2010

A dreamcatcher is a Native American handmade craft based on a willow hoop (although other materials can be used), on which there is a loose woven net which is then decorated with various things such as beads, feathers, leather, etc. The traditional use of a dreamcatcher is that of a sort of coping or comforting [...]

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How to Make a Lockpick Out of a Paper Clip

December 30, 2009

Making an improvised lockpick out of a paper clip is easy and can be done in about 5 minutes or so. It’s not going to open every lock out there, especially high security stuff like Medecos et al, but it will pop open most pin-tumbler locks if the person using it knows what they’re doing [...]

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How to Remove Stickers from Any Surface (including bumper stickers on cars)

December 16, 2009

I have a bone to pick with the people that design packaging and stickers (no product should ever require a tool–knife, scissors, etc.–to remove it from its packaging): the level of rage that I feel upon attempting to remove a sticker or price tag from something I’ve just purchased and having some sticky gooey crap [...]

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