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- Make your own ginger ale
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Over on credit.com , I wrote an article about making ginger ale (from a recipe that Orli Cotel told me about). Here's an excerpt: Because I was unsure about the amount of fizziness the ginger ale would have, I put the bottle in the sink ...
feed item - whytewolf - 09/01/2010 - 09:24 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Inside a Nevada family's underwater fort
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It's amazing what you can accomplish when your dad's garage is full of useful parts and pieces, and your whole family is certified as scuba divers. BB reader SaltySamaritan, aka Jordan Needham, dropped us a line via ...
feed item - whytewolf - 08/26/2010 - 13:31 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Where does oil come from?
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With apologies to Soundgarden, our cars aren't burning dinosaur bones. Instead, most scientists think oil started out as plankton and other tiny ocean critters, specifically their lipids—tough, stringy molecules that bacteria want to eat about ...
feed item - whytewolf - 04/27/2010 - 15:40 - 0 comments
- Chairs made from Coca Cola bottles
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Each of these Emeco 111 Navy chairs is made from the plastic in 111 coke bottles. [via Apartment Therapy ] --> (Art and Design, ...
feed item - whytewolf - 04/14/2010 - 14:52 - 0 comments
- The Story of Bottled Water
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The makers of The Story of Stuff have a new video about the "manufactured demand" of expensive bottled water. (Xeni posted a teaser a couple of weeks ago.) When Fiji water launched an ad campaign that made fun of ...
feed item - whytewolf - 03/22/2010 - 10:00 - 0 comments
- Story of Bottled Water (from "Story of Stuff" folks)
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Embedded here, a little teaser video for The Story of Bottled Water , created by the same people behind " The Story of Stuff " ( Wikipedia ). Looks neat. I'm a big fan of tap water. I spend a fair amount of time in ...
feed item - whytewolf - 03/11/2010 - 19:51 - 0 comments
- Make a Better Cup of Coffee in Your Hotel Room [Coffee]
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Many hotels have coffee makers right in the room, but dumping some grounds in and flipping the switch rarely makes a good cup of Joe. The Atlantic's Jerry Baldwin offers useful tips for improving the brew you make in your hotel room. Photo by ...
feed item - whytewolf - 02/24/2010 - 15:00 - 0 comments
- Sugru: polymer clay that fixes and sticks to pretty much everything
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Sugru is a soft modelling clay that dries in 30 minutes at room-temp to a waterproof, heat/cold-resistant, dishwasher safe, flexible semi-solid. It's self-adhesive and bonds with many metals, glass, ceramic, plastics, etc. It can be ...
feed item - whytewolf - 12/01/2009 - 05:11 - 0 comments
