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News: Build Your Own AT-AT Imperial Walker Snow Sculpture
It's been a legendary year for snow art. First there was the Eiffel Tower penis. Then the crash-landed AT-AT. Then the beautiful snowdecahedron and the skull-shaped igloo fortress. Found on Unreality Mag, the latest newsworthy snow sculpture is every Star Wars-loving little kid's dream: an AT-AT "pony ride". Okay, so it's freezing cold. And it's technically immobile. Who cares. It's awesome.
News: AT-AT Made with Spare Computer Parts
Blacksmith Sage Werbock —also known as the Great Nippulini, "pierced weight lifting extraordinaire"—welded together this Star Wars Imperial Walker sculpture with a bunch of old computer parts and scrap metal. Currently listed on Etsy for $450, the AT-AT is artfully assembled as follows:
News: Make Liquid Smoke In a Glass (Best Bar Trick EVER)
As filthy as this looks, I can't help but be utterly awed and amazed. Pull this bar trick at the club and you'll at least woo the Jersey Shore set.
News: Walmart's "Love, Earth" Jewelry Line Doesn't Live Up to Promises
A few blocks from the jewelry factory's entrance in La Paz, Bolivia, Julia and Maria look over their shoulders to see if the night guards are watching. The two young Aymara Indian women shiver in the cold night air and lower their heads as they speak.
News: Taking Great Travel Photos
Inject life into your landscapes Beautiful, sweeping landscapes are great, but sometimes they run the risk of being cold and distant. You look at that picture a month later and think, "meh."
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HowTo: Make Perfect, Extra-Crispy Potato Chips
The art of the potato chip. You can make them the fancy way. You can make them the lazy way. Or you can try the Serious Eats way: extra crunchy.
HowTo: Make Soap With Bacon
"Fruity hand soaps, moisturizers, emulsifying lotions, pumice stones, and Loofahs don't cut it. We want to cleanse ourselves with the fat of the sweet, dead pig."
iPad or Kindle? HowTo: Pick the Right eReader for You
The latest via Love.Earn: WonderHowTo's toastykitten sifts through the wide array of options that comes with shopping for an eReader. Kindle, Nook, or iPad? Click through to determine which product is best for you.
HowTo: Rake in Cold Hard Cash Writing Articles in Your Spare Time
Great news. If you've got a passion for writing (and more importantly, a passion for HowTo), you can make some dough doing what you love. WonderHowTo's latest feature allows users to earn 100% of Google AdSense money for every article written.
News: Festival - Matador at 21 Las Vegas Lineup Revealed
Matador, the label behind our favorite indie bands is turning 21 this year. To celebrate they're having this awesome festival in Vegas! Guided By Voices will be reuniting to play the Matador at 21 Festival along with Belle & Sebastian, Cat Power, Cold Cave, The New Pornographers, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Yo La Tengo and many more. Matador at 21 will be taking place at The Palms in Las Vegas from Friday, October 1 - Sunday, October 3 in collaboration with Los Angeles promoters FYF Fest. No on-sale ...
News: Monkey See, Monkey Do
Chi gyo ichi nyo is a familiar expression in the dojo. The word chi means knowledge. Gyo means doing, or action. Ichi nyo means inseparable. Action and knowledge are one! Acting without adequate knowledge or understanding is a constant source of frustration and problems. In our lives we are often busy and active without really understanding the basis of our actions and their full impact. Some people practice karate without really knowing why they are training. In class they do the techniques ...
How To: Melt ice with Sid the Science Kid
In this video of Sid the Science Kid, the process of melting the ice is shown to the children. A teacher brings a frozen box full of fruits. The children then touch the box and understand how it feels to touch the ice. It feels cold, wet and hard. The children then draw an illustration of the frozen box. The teacher then asks them to break the ice to take out the fruits but since the ice is so hard , no one is able to break it. Then the teacher brings in a jug of water and pours it over the i...
News: Presenting the Avatart, Just in Time for the Oscars
The 2010 Oscars are coming around the corner, and for those who throw an annual Oscar bash, now's the time to plan the menu. Cakespy posts a HowTo for the "Avatart", the perfect Avatar-viewing snack.
How To: Make bird feeders out of gourds
Fall is the best time to start a bird-feeding program that will last until spring. As the temperature begins to drop, the natural food supply dwindles, forcing birds to look for alternative sources to get them through the cold winter months. A feeder put out in the fall is sure to become a regular stop on birds' winter feeding rounds. The foods birds love include black-oil sunflower seeds, suet, peanuts, cracked corn, peanut butter, thistle, fruit, and shelled sunflower seeds.
How To: Define a site using PHP pages in Dreamweaver 9
As it ships, Dreamweaver typically has more built-in behaviors for ASP and Cold Fusion than it does for PHP. Still, developers are quickly writing PHP extensions to make Dreamweaver quite a robust tool for developing PHP/MySQL Web Applications. In this Dreamweaver 9 video tutorial you will learn how to define a site to use PHP pages. Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to start the video. There is no sound, so you'll need to watch the pop-up directions. Define...
How To: De-Ice Your Gutters (The Secrets of Ice Dam Removal)
I feel sorry for all of you homeowners stuck in snow right now. The snowy, blizzard conditions effecting most of the country is causing some serious headaches across our nation. And it's not just the cold weather I'm talking about. I'm talking about ice dams— something that more suitably should have been called ice damns, because they pretty much damn your roof to hell.
How To: Your Illustrated Extreme Winter Survival Guide
If you ever find yourself in the unfortunate predicament of being stranded outdoors in the snow, don't eat snow off the ground. Eating solid snow will sap your body of precious internal heat (since the heat will be used to melt the consumed ice), so it is best to melt the snow completely before drinking to stay hydrated.
How To: 6 Cheap & Easy Ways to Clean Your Garbage Disposal
With all the kitchen sink debris that goes down the drain, it should be no surprise that your garbage disposal sometimes gets a little smelly and needs some extra cleaning. Using common household items from your kitchen or medicine cabinet, you can easily clean your garbage disposal in ten minutes or less using one of the following six DIY methods listed below.
How To: 9 More Common Household Items for Relieving a Sunburn
Though summer is almost over, that doesn't mean you should ever be lax when it comes to protecting your skin from sun overexposure. However, should you find yourself with red and burning skin after a last-minute weekend trip to the beach, listed below are 9 simple and cheap home remedies for relieving symptoms of sunburn.
How To: 8 Non-Cooking Uses for Turmeric
Turmeric, the vibrant yellow spice commonly used in Southeast Asian cooking, can also be used outside of the kitchen to disinfect wounds, relieve burns, add an extra golden glow to facial moisturizer, and more.
How To: 9 More Home Remedies That'll Get Rid of Those Dark Circles Under Your Eyes
Getting constant dark circles under your eyes? In addition to applying witch hazel or vitamin E oil to the area beneath your eyes, you can also elevate your head with two or three pillows while you sleep so that the blood doesn't pool beneath your eyes.
How To: 9 More DIY Home Remedies for Relieving Itchy Mosquito Bites
You can buy salves and creams from the drugstore created specifically for relieving itchy mosquito bites, but it's far less expensive and more convenient to use a home remedy that can probably be found in your kitchen or medicine cabinet.
How To: 5 Delicious & Easy Homemade Soda Recipes to Celebrate Summer
Make your summer memorable by whipping up some ice-cold, homemade soda in the comfort of your own kitchen, then take it along with you during your next picnic or beach trip.
How To: 7 Easy Ways to Remove Water Ring Marks from Wood Furniture
Summertime is officially here, which means that the likelihood of someone leaving a glass of cold water on your wooden furniture without a coaster and leaving behind an annoying water ring mark on the surface has increased tenfold. What can you do to get rid of that annoying mark?
How To: 11 Delicious Culinary Uses for Muffin Tins Besides Just Cupcakes & Muffins
Using a metal or silicone muffin tin, you can bake, freeze, or whip up a wide variety of snacks, appetizers, and desserts that aren't just cupcakes and muffins.
How To: 12 Reasons Why You Should Have Baby Oil at Home
Paper shredder not working like it used to? Soak several pieces of paper in baby oil and run them through the shredder, which will help lubricate the blades and make them run smoothly for future shredding purposes.
How To: 9 Heartwarming Heart-Shaped Crafts to Make for Valentine's Day
Why give a heart-shaped card to your favorite person when heart-shaped bacon can convey the same message and taste so much better?
How To: 4 Easy Tricks to Removing a Stuck Ring from Your Finger
If you ever find yourself with a ring that won't come off your swollen fingers, grab some Windex, lubricate the area around your ring below your knuckle, and slowly wiggle your ring around until it slides past your knuckle.
Street Art 101: How to Make Moss Graffiti
Feeling the need to creatively express yourself in a public space? Make an artistic statement with some DIY moss graffiti using moss, buttermilk, beer, a paintbrush, and some imagination.
How To: 8 Non-Drinkable Uses for Kool-Aid
Kool-Aid, the flavored mix powder, commonly used to make sugary and fruity cold drinks in the summertime, is also unexpectedly useful around the home to clean your rusty dishwasher, remove rust stains from concrete, and check to see if your toilet tank is leaking.
How To: 16 Cool and Unusual Uses for Ice Cubes
In addition to keeping your cold drink from turning lukewarm, ice cubes are also surprisingly useful for removing gum from your carpet, keeping your hollandaise sauce from curdling, skimming fat off your soup, and watering your hard-to-reach hanging plants.
How To: Treat Yourself During the Holidays with These Tasty (And Tipsy) Christmas Marshmallows
'Tis the holiday season—a time for family and the best damn drunk uncle stories that you'll hear all year. Which is all the more reason to make these tasty little alcoholic treats... Spiked eggnog may be the more popular holiday vice, but these Baileys-infused homemade marshmallows from blogger Devon are looking to make a case for the top spot. Here's what you'll need to make these fluffy holiday party treats:
How To: 13 Unexpected Uses for Baking Soda You've Probably Never Heard Of
When it comes to common household items with a million practical uses, baking soda reigns supreme. We all know that baking soda is great for deodorizing stinky things, whitening your teeth, and helping with clean-up around the house, but did you know about the other weirdly unexpected and esoteric uses for baking soda?
How To: 12 Weirdly Practical Uses for Potatoes
Sick of using potatoes as side dishes for your dinner meal? Left in their uncooked form, raw potatoes have a variety of weirdly practical uses, from aiding you in removing a broken light bulb from its fixture to keeping your ski goggles clear in the cold weather. A raw potato can also help with your floral arrangement, add new life to your beat-up shoes, and absorb the excess salt from your overly salted soup and stews.
News: Make your own Air Conditioner
Time to prepare for that upcoming insufferable summer heat. For real. This tutorial actually works.
How To: Pack for a Ski Vacation
Packing for cold weather can be tricky and bulky. Here, Kalyn, our fashion expert, gives us some tips on essential items to pack for a cold weather vacation. Since cold weather can be drying, don't forget extra moisturizing beauty products! Example Products:
News: 5 Deliciously Warm Bourbon-Spiked Holiday Cocktails
With those icy winter months setting in, it's time to start sipping your bourbon warm. Spike your classic eggnog, hot chocolate, and even lattes with a splash of Wild Turkey bourbon. Below, five recipes to add a little fire to your typical cold weather beverages. Adjust the recipes to get more servings, and you've got some great ideas for Christmas party favors.
How To: Make a Soothing Hot Toddy Drink with Bourbon
After a stressful day, there's nothing more relaxing than a smooth glass of straight, room temperature whiskey to help unwind. On hot days, popping a few rocks in does the trick. And on cold days, hot toddies are truly amazing.