How to Make Your Own Prototypes : How to make your own Plastic Vacuum Former
A great instructable that shows how to do home vacuum forming with a homebreew setup. Neato.
Jake's School Bus Conversion Project
Jake von Slatt has a page documenting his conversion of an old school bus into a family camper. I love this project. I have wanted to do the same thing since I was in college. Maybe someday.
This website features animated examples of how to tie knots for a wide range of uses. Broken into several categories with very clear examples of how to tie the knots, common usages, advantages and disadvantages and little historical or trivia snippets.
A website with writer's markets; everything from Pro and Paying to 4theLuv and contests. Nice writing resource!
A great tutorial on how to ring a phone for a theatre prop. Uses a stereo amplifier and a recorded CD for the signal. Awesome!
Super Deluxe Tuckbox Template Maker
A webpage that makes templates for the style of boxes that decks of cards come in. Neato.
Artisans of the Valley - Hand Crafted Custom Tables Page 2
These guys make custom tables and will even make you a puzzle table where you can only gain access to the secret compartments by opening and removing things in a special order. Nice!
A device to use your computer and a thumb drive to add musical tones to your car. Not actually available at this time but it looks fun.
shelterrific ? Blog Archive ? help! i’m looking for a cat tree that is not ugly
A post with a few ideas on a more stylish version of the old Cat Tree.
hackaddict.net: DIY: Metal Business Cards
THis woman posted how she made herself some sheet metal business cards and she offers to do it for others.
This site lets you create your own giant wall poster out of photographs and other things. Great for decorating a kid's room.
AUTHENTIC 1950s INTERIOR PAINT COLORS - $0.00 : PopuluxeBooks, Retro Info For Your Mod Style
A post containing scans of some authentic mid-century modern paint samples. I bet you could take a print out of these to the store and get that tint made up special.
Eat Foo: Post-Rapture Miracle Fruit Recap
This site has a report from a participant of a Miracle Fruit party. Apparently this is a fruit that has a chemical effect on your taste senses that masks bitter and sour flavors. This apparently turns citrus fruits into an entirely new gustatory experience. Need to order some of these.
Update: apparently, it is an African berry which contains a protein that causes the taste buds to temporarily sense sour flavors as sweet ones.
Here is info from a link from a post on BoingBoing where you can get some.
Curtis Mozie
410 SW 29th Terrace
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312
U.S.A.
Telephone: +1-954-587-3766
Mobile: +1-954-270-7884
Miracle fruit trees, fruit, and seeds or seedlings available by request.
Here is a website about the fruit. It looks like one version of it is called Synsepalum dulcificum.
Steak Branding Irons - Steak Brands- BBQ Branding Iron - Personalized Steak Brander
A site where you can buy all kinds of branding irons for your BBQ setup. Lets you mark your steaks. Cute.
This is just one site of many. For best results go to google and seach for Steak Branding Irons.
This site shows the CRE hand signals commonly used that you see so often in action flicks and shows. Neat!
A great military surplus site. Reasonable prices and a nice selection. Good place to get containers for Geocaching. Great deals on 4 packs of Decon containers.
Don’t Call. Don’t Write. Let Me Be. - New York Times
Article in the NY Times about how to opt of of lots of annoyances in your life.
Whatever: Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don't Want to Work at Writing
While catching up on WWDN in Exile I read his post on John Scalzi's writing tips. The one linked above is 10 tips on writing for people who don't want to work too hard (at writing).
This one is about how much you should write each day.
Finally, this one is aimed at younger writers.
All good advice in my opinion. Thanks John!
This blog entry shows this neat Japanese paper cutter designed to handle curves. Looks awesome. I'd love to get one for all my paper craft projects.
Cartoon and Animation Library | RefreshingContent.com
This site took a bunch of artistic guides that Mark Kennedy posted on his blog and turned them into PDFs. Thanks!
The website that goes with all those top secret recipe books. Free recipes available on the site.
A great site to find cell phone straps and toys. Has a distinctive Japanese flavor to the offerings.
World's best t-shirts and stuff :: Dirty Microbe
Some really cool t-shirts here.
Whitefence is a website where you can compare services like cable and internet as well as Utilities like gas and electric. A great resource.
Morgan Motor Company Home Page
Wow. These cars are amazing. I'd love to import one. Looks like a lot of fun. The retro syling combined with the modern technology just knocks me out.
Teardrop Trailers by Rollin Oak
A site where you can buy a teardrop travel trailer for some retro 50's camping action!
What a cool tool. It's a great way to schedule meeting's online. That seems to be the main use for it but you can use it for any random poll where you are trying to get a group to agree on something like a date or time. Nicely done.
Bumbershoot 2006 ... Take a Ride
Cool. I just found out about this neat Arts Festival that happens in Seattle in September (Labor Day Weekend). This looks like a good weekend to visit friends and relatives in the area.
The Jack of All Trades: fair weather ideas - Google Book Search
A great book that shows how to make cool boys diversions like tree houses and secret clubhouses. A great book.
