Contrary to popular belief, eliminating household pests from your home can be accomplished without completely bombing your living space with a mess of toxic fumes. Whether you have annoying fruit flies in the kitchen, fleas on your beloved pet or silverfish lurking around your bathroom, it is very likely that a DIY, non-toxic and super inexpensive solution exists for your household bug problem.
One of the things I consistently notice amongst fellow internet users is that many people don't know how to properly search for stuff. Google may have served you well in the past, but I'm going to share a few little tricks with you to help make your search results even spiffier.
The next time you go out for sushi with friends, impress your company by fashioning your own chopstick rest using the paper wrapper the wooden chopsticks come in. Keeping the ends of your chopstick off the table surface makes for good hygiene (who knows when was the last time the table was really wiped clean?), and there is no awkward moment of getting your chopsticks off your plate when your server whisks your finished plate away mid-meal. Gotta love functional origami.
They're not the fastest in the world, but Vision Research's line of Phantom high-speed cameras produce some of the best slow motion effects on the web. They can turn violent punches into a chaotic scene of distorted skin and repulsive sweat, or make a night's stay in a hotel room more exciting. Now breakfast gets the Phantom treatment in Breakfast Interrupted, where America's favorite meal gets captured in midair at 1,000 frames per second.
Miguel Molina has started a great website where he is reviewing restaurants from all over LA! The goal: to look for authentic, affordable food that represents a variety of cultures.
As a show of support for the global effort in saving the earth RI Chemical Corporation encourages it's employees to join the upcoming event this saturday March 26.
This is one of my favorite recipes. Since kare kare is almost always joked as a poorman's stew (your rich before you cook it and you become a poor man when you eat it), this take of the sumptously ox tail, tripe and meat kare-kare really makes you love the dish without drying your wallets dry...
1 large Idaho potato 12 large eggs
I have said it before, and I’ll say it again: if the United States can put a monkey in space, it can certainly come up with a way for me to eat 5-10lbs of chocolate per day without gaining any weight! Sadly, however, no one seems to be tackling the calorie-less food problem, so I’m here to share my favorite foods that don’t land on your thighs.
Welcome back to the two-part series of Ten foods to eat for clear, acne-free skin. Check out part 1 here.
For someone who loves math as much as Vi Hart (a self-proclaimed "mathematical musician"), she doesn't pay an awful lot of attention to her math teacher. But that's ok. Cuz somehow her wonderfully whimsical doodling transforms into mini lessons on graph theory, mobius strips, binaries, fractals and more.
Some of my relatives live in Guangzhou, China, and it's a pretty amazing place. We ate so well, and so cheaply, too! Via NOTVENTURES.
Dress up your standard PB&J with Serious Eats' recipe for peanut butter sushi. Who knows, the little kid in you just might enjoy the peanut butter version better than the fish version.
Meet Vi Hart, our charming host. Vi is a self-labeled "mathematical musician", who burns paper instruments, cuts food into mathematical shapes, twists balloons into mathematical models, and makes mathematical music with candy buttons.
“Domestic Stills” (Domestication, femininity and subversion) is an oddly interesting photography project by Namiko Kitaura in which the artist fries, washes and stitches flowers.
Anna the Red, the internet's resident Queen of Bento, has created an elaborate Halloween Bento Box based on video game Costume Quest: "an adorable role-playing adventure game created by Double Fine. It takes place on Halloween night, kids in costume trick-or-treating and fighting monsters to save a kidnapped sibling while collecting costumes."
Like a scene from Inception, professional hip hop dancer and choreographer Scotty Nguyen's latest video plays with gravity to the tune of Usher’s “There Goes My Baby.” Scotty performs with fellow professional dancer Tracy Shibata (who is currently on tour with Rihanna).
I don't know if this works. It looks more like cornbread with broccoli in it. Hmm...
Unfortunately there is no picture of the weirdly-flavored ice cream. But Scoops is practically an institution in Los Angeles. If anybody could make it work, they could. They're known for their unusual flavors, and they have vegan options. Hmm...
For this one we get the whole group of skaters to just rip it up for a while and meanwhile Jeff has a switch that will screw with the ground and make it impossible for them not to fall and eat it
Eat it boys. 13-years-old. 65 mph fastball. Striking out her victims left and right.
I had the immense pleasure of eating Japanese cheesecake in Little Tokyo recently. It is soft, moist... essentially perfect. Here's a round-up of recipes I'd like to try, if anybody has any favorites, please add to the list!
Utterly mind blowing CC-licensed photography of the periodic elements by Wikipedia user alchemist-hp. Beautiful examples below, click through for the whole project (in German).
What should young athletes ages 7-14 eat to get bigger and stronger? Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Sports Nutritionist, Diane King, discusses the value of energy bars and protein shakes for this age group
Lake Street Creamery is not just the latest addition to Los Angeles' growing roster of food trucks - it's an artisanal ice cream truck. They make their own ice cream in the truck and then sell it to us, the public. Flavors include stuff like Donut, Aztec Sacrifice, and Pancake Breakfast. Of course, you can follow them on Twitter.
I'm not sure I could bear to eat these if they were served to me. They're so beautiful! The original link is in Swedish, but you can use Google Translate to switch into English.
Check out this video footage of INSANELY huge waves, shot on the Canon 5D Mark II at the Jaws reef break, in Maui. Featuring surfers Laird Hamilton, Kai Lenny and Jason Polakow, performing feats that frankly don't seem humanly possible. Previously, BASE Jumping + Freediving + Canon 5D = One Spectacularly Scary Show.
Watched this great interview with Alice Waters this morning and had to share. Alice speaks about the spirituality and morality behind food and her slow food movement. The transparency of her passion is inspiring. Happy Eating!
This Presidential Panel Report is full of scary information, but is a must-read. The relevant things you should be aware of:
12 amazing dog-shaped cakes via Odee.
Oh, where would young hooligans be without the internet classic, the Coke Cheat HowTo? Ingenious and incredibly time consuming (why not just use the time to study?!) instructional via Eat Liver.
Quahogs (or guahaugs) are hard-shelled, edible clams found primarily on the east coast of North America. They're known generally as just clam in the United States. But how do you eat them? And what's the best way to eat them? What do you do with a bucket full of quahogs?
Let it be known that I, Ford Austin got fat as hell and am now trying to work it off in time for my next feature film, MORELLA.
A Japanese company called Oriental [JP] has invented an eco-friendly machine that turns office paper into toilet paper. Called the "White Goat", the machine's process is simple: feed it approximately 40 sheets of paper and thirty minutes later it deliver one perfectly constructed roll of toilet paper.
Remember the room with a rotating view? Dutch artist Zeger Reyers brings us an equally interesting installation, created for the exhibition Eating the Universe at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany. The kitchen has been rotating since November 27th, 2009, and will continue to do so until February 28th, 2010.
Looks good enough to eat. Artist Olle Hemmendorff was asked to interpret the Nike Air Max 90 for an exhibit.
Prawn Pakora is a wonderfully tasty appetizer or side dish eaten across India. So we teamed up with Shahena Ali of the Maharaja restaurant in Benfleet, Essex, to show you how to rustle them up. Make prawn pakora.
This crispy onion rings recipe is a perennial fast-food favourite. These deep-fried onion rings are guaranteed to turn out crisp on the outside but tender within. So we hope you enjoy making (and eating) them! Make crispy deep-fried onion rings.
A messy Thai dish that can only be eaten using your fingers - perfect for barbecues and perfect for the kids! Try this Barbecued Caramel Chilli Glazed Chicken Wings recipe. Make BBQ caramel chilli chicken wings.
